Behavior refers to purposive responses that people have when interacting with their environment. A person's social behavior is shaped through continuous reciprocal interaction with others around them and with their environmental situation. Organizational behavior analyzes how organizational participants behave within an organizational environment and is concerned with understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in organizations. Behavioral science scientifically studies human behavior by exploring personal experiences, social expression of self, and behavioral peculiarities, contexts, and developments through a combination of anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

1. WHAT IS BEHAVIOR
The term behavior refers to purposive response. It means that when a person while
interacting purposefully in an environment produces result is called as behavior.
Social behavior of a person is the product of continuous reciprocal interaction
between him and others around. It signifies his knowledge and will to act in a
particular environmental situation. The person and the environmental situation do not
function as independent units but in conjunction with the behavior itself, reciprocally
interacts to determine behavior.
PERSON
INTERACTION
ENVIRONMENT

2. ACCORDING TO ALBERT BANDURA
“It is largely through their actions that people produce the
environmental conditions that effect their behavior in a
reciprocal fashion. The experience generated by behavior
also partly determine what a person becomes and can do,
which in turn affects the subsequent behavior”.
So, Behavior = Function (Participant X Environment)
So, B= F (P X E)

3. WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
OB may be described as functions of organizational
participants (employees) into an organizational environment. It
refers to behavioral approach to management.
Prof Larry Cumings has described as it is a way of
CONCEIVING PROBLEMS, ARTICULATING RESEARCH and
ACTION SOLUTIONS with reference to:
a)Suitable behavioral model to search for cause & effect
b) Cause a structural change (in the organization) or a
desirable outcome &
c)Humanize work-climate for self development, personal
growth and self actualization.
OB is directly concern with the understanding, prediction &
control of human behavior in organization.

4. FRED LUTHANS MODEL TO EXPLAIN OB
Structure ConsequencesBehaviorParticipants
Physical, Socio-
Cultural and
Technological
Environment.
Job design,
Decision, Control,
Communication,
Power, Goal setting
Personality,
Perceptions, Mental
Process, Motivation,
Learning
Stress,
Appraisal, OB
Mood, Group
Morale, Conflicts,
Leadership, Org
Development

5. WHAT IS BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
It is the scientific study of human behavior. Based on:
His personal experience.
Mode of expressing of self in a social context.
It is concerned more with the peculiarities of his
sophisticated self
His roll playing capabilities in a given task or situation
It is an interdisciplinary term popularized in the 1950s by
Ford Foundations through its multi-million dollar
programme related to researches on Individual Behavior &
Human Relations Development Affairs. It is composite of
Anthropology, Sociology & Psychology to explore
behavioral peculiarities, behavioral contexts & behavioral
developments of organizational participants.

6. WHAT IS BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
It is the scientific study of human behavior. Based on:
His personal experience.
Mode of expressing of self in a social context.
It is concerned more with the peculiarities of his
sophisticated self
His roll playing capabilities in a given task or situation
It is an interdisciplinary term popularized in the 1950s by
Ford Foundations through its multi-million dollar
programme related to researches on Individual Behavior &
Human Relations Development Affairs. It is composite of
Anthropology, Sociology & Psychology to explore
behavioral peculiarities, behavioral contexts & behavioral
developments of organizational participants.