Learning Objectives
1.1 Demonstrate the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace.
1.2 Define organizational behavior (OB).
1.3 Show the value to OB of systematic study.
1.4 Identify the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB.
1.5 Demonstrate why few absolutes apply to OB.
1.6 Identify managers’ challenges and opportunities in applying OB concepts.
1.7 Compare the three levels of analysis in this text’s OB model.
1.8 Describe the key employability skills gained from studying OB applicable to other majors or future careers.
Demonstrate the Importance of Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace
Interpersonal skills are important because…
‘Good places to work’ have better financial performance.
Better interpersonal skills result in lower turnover of quality employees and higher quality applications for recruitment.
There is a strong association between the quality of workplace relationships and job satisfaction, stress, and turnover.
It fosters social responsibility awareness.
This document provides an overview of key topics in organizational behavior that will be covered, including defining OB, attitudes and job satisfaction, motivation and leadership, and organizational change. It discusses how interpersonal skills are important for workplace performance and relationships. It also outlines the manager's roles and necessary skills. Finally, it notes that OB draws from various behavioral science disciplines like psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology to study individual and group behavior in organizations.
The document discusses organizational behavior and management. It provides learning objectives for a chapter on organizational behavior, which include demonstrating the importance of interpersonal skills, defining organizational behavior, showing the value of systematic study, identifying contributing behavioral science disciplines, demonstrating why few absolutes apply, and identifying managers' challenges and opportunities. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, management skills, effective versus successful managerial activities, and challenges managers face with concepts like responding to economic pressures and globalization.
The document discusses organizational behavior and management. It defines organizational behavior as the field that studies how individuals, groups, and structure impact behavior in organizations. It also discusses the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace. The document outlines several challenges and opportunities that managers face in applying organizational behavior concepts, such as responding to economic pressures, globalization, and managing a diverse workforce.
CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR FINAL.ppt.pptxSindhuDawani1
This chapter introduces organizational behavior and its importance. It discusses why OB is studied, including understanding oneself and others in organizations. The major contributions to OB from disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology are outlined. OB is defined as a field that studies how individuals, groups, and structure influence behavior in organizations. Key challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts are identified, such as managing diversity, improving customer service and innovation. The chapter also summarizes management functions, roles, and skills.
This document provides an introduction to organizational behavior. It begins by outlining the learning objectives of understanding key OB concepts like defining OB, explaining the value of its systematic study, and identifying the contributions of behavioral science disciplines. Next, it describes the functions of managers and defines central OB terms. It then discusses the major challenges and opportunities managers face in applying OB concepts, such as managing workforce diversity and improving quality. Finally, it introduces a basic three-level OB model that examines individual, group, and organizational factors as independent variables that influence important dependent variables like productivity, absenteeism, and job satisfaction.
1) The document discusses organizational behavior and management. It defines organizational behavior as studying how individuals, groups, and structure impact behavior in organizations.
2) It outlines management functions like planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. It also discusses skills managers need like technical, human, and conceptual skills.
3) Organizational behavior draws from multiple disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology to better understand workplace behavior.
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This document provides an overview of organizational behavior (OB) including:
- Defining OB and how it can help managers understand individual and group behavior within organizations.
- The 4 main goals of OB which are to describe, understand, predict, and control human behavior at work.
- The 4 key forces affecting OB which are people, structure, technology, and environment.
- The 4 disciplinary foundations of OB which are psychology, sociology, social psychology, and anthropology.
- The 4 approaches to OB which are human resources, contingency, results-oriented, and systems approaches.
- Challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts like managing a diverse workforce and improving employee performance.
This document provides an overview of key topics in organizational behavior that will be covered, including defining OB, attitudes and job satisfaction, motivation and leadership, and organizational change. It discusses how interpersonal skills are important for workplace performance and relationships. It also outlines the manager's roles and necessary skills. Finally, it notes that OB draws from various behavioral science disciplines like psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology to study individual and group behavior in organizations.
The document discusses organizational behavior and management. It provides learning objectives for a chapter on organizational behavior, which include demonstrating the importance of interpersonal skills, defining organizational behavior, showing the value of systematic study, identifying contributing behavioral science disciplines, demonstrating why few absolutes apply, and identifying managers' challenges and opportunities. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, management skills, effective versus successful managerial activities, and challenges managers face with concepts like responding to economic pressures and globalization.
The document discusses organizational behavior and management. It defines organizational behavior as the field that studies how individuals, groups, and structure impact behavior in organizations. It also discusses the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace. The document outlines several challenges and opportunities that managers face in applying organizational behavior concepts, such as responding to economic pressures, globalization, and managing a diverse workforce.
CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR FINAL.ppt.pptxSindhuDawani1
This chapter introduces organizational behavior and its importance. It discusses why OB is studied, including understanding oneself and others in organizations. The major contributions to OB from disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology are outlined. OB is defined as a field that studies how individuals, groups, and structure influence behavior in organizations. Key challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts are identified, such as managing diversity, improving customer service and innovation. The chapter also summarizes management functions, roles, and skills.
This document provides an introduction to organizational behavior. It begins by outlining the learning objectives of understanding key OB concepts like defining OB, explaining the value of its systematic study, and identifying the contributions of behavioral science disciplines. Next, it describes the functions of managers and defines central OB terms. It then discusses the major challenges and opportunities managers face in applying OB concepts, such as managing workforce diversity and improving quality. Finally, it introduces a basic three-level OB model that examines individual, group, and organizational factors as independent variables that influence important dependent variables like productivity, absenteeism, and job satisfaction.
1) The document discusses organizational behavior and management. It defines organizational behavior as studying how individuals, groups, and structure impact behavior in organizations.
2) It outlines management functions like planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. It also discusses skills managers need like technical, human, and conceptual skills.
3) Organizational behavior draws from multiple disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology to better understand workplace behavior.
introduction to organizational behavior is a broad knowledge to understand to...MengsongNguon
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior (OB) including:
- Defining OB and how it can help managers understand individual and group behavior within organizations.
- The 4 main goals of OB which are to describe, understand, predict, and control human behavior at work.
- The 4 key forces affecting OB which are people, structure, technology, and environment.
- The 4 disciplinary foundations of OB which are psychology, sociology, social psychology, and anthropology.
- The 4 approaches to OB which are human resources, contingency, results-oriented, and systems approaches.
- Challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts like managing a diverse workforce and improving employee performance.
Organizational behavior can be defined as understanding, predicting, and managing human behavior in organizations. Individuals, groups, and organizational structures and culture all impact behavior within an organization. OB draws from various fields like psychology, sociology, economics, and political science. Key determinants of behavior include beliefs, attitudes, emotions, values, and behavior itself. Managers face challenges related to workforce diversity, quality/productivity improvement, empowerment, technology changes, and business ethics. Methods to minimize errors include checking sampling and data processes, preparing questionnaires carefully, conducting pilot surveys, fixing procedures, using competent staff, and providing training.
Organizational behavior studies how individuals, groups, and structure influence workplace behavior and aims to improve organizational effectiveness. It draws from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines to systematically examine relationships between variables and inform evidence-based management. While no absolutes apply, OB concepts address challenges like managing diversity, stimulating innovation, and improving ethics.
This chapter introduces organizational behavior and defines it as the study of how individuals, groups, and structures influence behavior within organizations to improve effectiveness. It discusses the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace and identifies the manager's key functions as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. The chapter also outlines the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB, including psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Finally, it discusses the three levels of analysis in OB - inputs, processes, and outcomes - and identifies common variables of interest like attitudes, stress, and organizational survival.
Analyzing The Organizational Behavior Chart ElementsAllison Koehn
This document provides an analysis of organizational behavior concepts. It begins with definitions of key terms like organization, organizational behavior, human resources, and stress. It then explores topics like perception, personality, emotions, values, attitudes, diversity, and stress. It examines how these concepts impact individual and group behavior within organizations. The document aims to explain organizational behavior concepts for the purpose of improving organizational effectiveness.
The document discusses organizational behavior (OB) and management. It defines OB as investigating how individuals, groups, and organizational structure influence workplace behavior. OB aims to improve organizational effectiveness by studying relationships between variables like productivity, job satisfaction, and turnover. The document also outlines management functions including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, and discusses challenges managers face around issues like globalization, diversity, and change.
This document provides an overview of organizational behaviour. It discusses key topics like organizations, behaviour, management functions, leadership theories, and models of organizational behaviour.
Some main points:
- Organizational behaviour studies how individuals, groups, and structure influence behaviour in organizations. It applies knowledge about these factors to make organizations work more effectively.
- The five main management functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Leadership theories discussed include trait, behavioural, and contingency theories.
- Models of organizational behaviour examine individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis and their interplay. Key dependent variables include productivity, absenteeism, and job satisfaction.
- Challenges for
This chapter introduces organizational behavior (OB) and defines it as the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how their behaviors affect organizational performance. It discusses the importance of interpersonal skills for managers and describes managers' roles and functions. The chapter also identifies the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Finally, it outlines challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts, like managing diversity and stimulating innovation, and compares the three levels of analysis in the book's OB model: inputs, processes, and outcomes.
This chapter introduces organizational behavior (OB) and defines it as the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how their behaviors affect organizational performance. It discusses the importance of interpersonal skills for managers and describes managers' roles and functions. The chapter also identifies the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Finally, it outlines challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts, like managing diversity and stimulating innovation, and compares the three levels of analysis in the book's OB model: inputs, processes, and outcomes.
The dynamics of people and organizationbasudebkumar
This presentation provides an overview of organizational behavior. It defines organizational behavior as the study of how people act within organizations both individually and in groups. The goals of organizational behavior are described as describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in organizational settings. Key forces that affect organizational behavior are identified as people, structure, environment, and technology. Basic approaches taken in organizational behavior are identified as the human resources, contingency, results-oriented, and systems approaches. Fundamental concepts regarding the nature of people and organizations are also outlined.
The document provides an overview of organizational behavior (OB). It defines OB as the systematic study of how individuals and groups act within organizations. The goals of OB include describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in organizations. Key forces that influence organizational behavior include people, structure, technology, and the external environment. Effective OB helps improve organizational performance and effectiveness.
Ob i intro- diversity- personality & values- emotions & moodsShivkumar Menon
This document provides an overview and introduction to organizational behavior (OB). It discusses what OB is, why it is studied, and the basic OB model. It also covers key topics in OB like diversity, personality, emotions, and skills required for managerial effectiveness. The basic OB model shows inputs, processes, and outcomes at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Dependent variables in OB include productivity, effectiveness, efficiency, absenteeism, turnover, job satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behavior.
This document provides an introduction to organizational behavior. It discusses how the field has evolved to focus more on human behavior and interpersonal skills. It defines organizational behavior as investigating how individuals, groups, and organizational structure impact behavior within organizations. The goal is to apply this knowledge to improve organizational effectiveness. Several management theories are outlined, including Mintzberg's 10 managerial roles and Fayol's 5 management functions. Factors that influence individual and group behavior are explored, drawing from various behavioral science disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology. The dependent and independent variables in organizational behavior are defined. Self-esteem and self-efficacy theories are also summarized.
This document provides an overview of the key topics covered in the first chapter of an Organizational Behavior course, including:
1. The chapter introduces concepts like what managers do, defining organizational behavior, and explaining the value of systematically studying OB.
2. It discusses learning objectives, what organizations are, and the nature of people and motivated behavior in organizational contexts.
3. OB is introduced as the field studying how individuals, groups, and organizational structures influence workplace behavior to improve effectiveness. Key dependent and independent variables in OB models are also outlined.
Introduction to Organisational BehaviourISAAC Jayant
Organisational behavior is a field of study that investigates the impact that Individuals, Groups and Structure have on behavior within organization for the purpose of applying such knowledge towards improving an organisations effectiveness. (Stephen. P. Robbins).
Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how organizations manage their environments. OB focuses on improving productivity by understanding employee behavior and predicting human behavior in organizations. Behavior is generally predictable but depends on circumstances. To study OB effectively requires a systematic, evidence-based approach rather than just common sense. OB draws from various disciplines like psychology, sociology, and political science to analyze behavior at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
This document provides an overview of the key topics covered in an organizational behavior course. It defines organizational behavior as the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how their behaviors impact organizational effectiveness. It describes managers' core functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling work. It also identifies several challenges and opportunities for applying organizational behavior concepts, such as responding to economic pressures, globalization, diversity, innovation and work-life balance.
Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations. [1] OB has the goals of describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in organizational settings to improve organizational effectiveness. [2] It draws on various disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology. [3] OB faces challenges like improving employee skills, quality, and diversity to meet business goals in an increasingly global environment.
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior concepts from a textbook. It defines organizational behavior, describes what managers do and their functions. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, the skills effective managers need, and the challenges and opportunities managers face in areas like quality improvement, diversity, and globalization. The core OB model shows individual, group and system-level independent variables that impact dependent variables like productivity, absenteeism and job satisfaction.
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior concepts from a textbook. It defines organizational behavior, describes what managers do and their functions. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, the skills effective managers need, and the challenges and opportunities managers face in areas like quality management, workforce diversity, and globalization. The core OB model shows individual, group and organizational factors as independent variables that impact dependent variables like productivity, absenteeism and job satisfaction.
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior concepts from a textbook. It defines organizational behavior, describes what managers do and their functions. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, the skills effective managers need, and the challenges and opportunities organizational behavior can help address, such as quality improvement, diversity, and globalization. The behavioral science disciplines that contribute to organizational behavior are identified.
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Organizational behavior can be defined as understanding, predicting, and managing human behavior in organizations. Individuals, groups, and organizational structures and culture all impact behavior within an organization. OB draws from various fields like psychology, sociology, economics, and political science. Key determinants of behavior include beliefs, attitudes, emotions, values, and behavior itself. Managers face challenges related to workforce diversity, quality/productivity improvement, empowerment, technology changes, and business ethics. Methods to minimize errors include checking sampling and data processes, preparing questionnaires carefully, conducting pilot surveys, fixing procedures, using competent staff, and providing training.
Organizational behavior studies how individuals, groups, and structure influence workplace behavior and aims to improve organizational effectiveness. It draws from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines to systematically examine relationships between variables and inform evidence-based management. While no absolutes apply, OB concepts address challenges like managing diversity, stimulating innovation, and improving ethics.
This chapter introduces organizational behavior and defines it as the study of how individuals, groups, and structures influence behavior within organizations to improve effectiveness. It discusses the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace and identifies the manager's key functions as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. The chapter also outlines the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB, including psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Finally, it discusses the three levels of analysis in OB - inputs, processes, and outcomes - and identifies common variables of interest like attitudes, stress, and organizational survival.
Analyzing The Organizational Behavior Chart ElementsAllison Koehn
This document provides an analysis of organizational behavior concepts. It begins with definitions of key terms like organization, organizational behavior, human resources, and stress. It then explores topics like perception, personality, emotions, values, attitudes, diversity, and stress. It examines how these concepts impact individual and group behavior within organizations. The document aims to explain organizational behavior concepts for the purpose of improving organizational effectiveness.
The document discusses organizational behavior (OB) and management. It defines OB as investigating how individuals, groups, and organizational structure influence workplace behavior. OB aims to improve organizational effectiveness by studying relationships between variables like productivity, job satisfaction, and turnover. The document also outlines management functions including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, and discusses challenges managers face around issues like globalization, diversity, and change.
This document provides an overview of organizational behaviour. It discusses key topics like organizations, behaviour, management functions, leadership theories, and models of organizational behaviour.
Some main points:
- Organizational behaviour studies how individuals, groups, and structure influence behaviour in organizations. It applies knowledge about these factors to make organizations work more effectively.
- The five main management functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Leadership theories discussed include trait, behavioural, and contingency theories.
- Models of organizational behaviour examine individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis and their interplay. Key dependent variables include productivity, absenteeism, and job satisfaction.
- Challenges for
This chapter introduces organizational behavior (OB) and defines it as the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how their behaviors affect organizational performance. It discusses the importance of interpersonal skills for managers and describes managers' roles and functions. The chapter also identifies the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Finally, it outlines challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts, like managing diversity and stimulating innovation, and compares the three levels of analysis in the book's OB model: inputs, processes, and outcomes.
This chapter introduces organizational behavior (OB) and defines it as the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how their behaviors affect organizational performance. It discusses the importance of interpersonal skills for managers and describes managers' roles and functions. The chapter also identifies the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Finally, it outlines challenges and opportunities for applying OB concepts, like managing diversity and stimulating innovation, and compares the three levels of analysis in the book's OB model: inputs, processes, and outcomes.
The dynamics of people and organizationbasudebkumar
This presentation provides an overview of organizational behavior. It defines organizational behavior as the study of how people act within organizations both individually and in groups. The goals of organizational behavior are described as describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in organizational settings. Key forces that affect organizational behavior are identified as people, structure, environment, and technology. Basic approaches taken in organizational behavior are identified as the human resources, contingency, results-oriented, and systems approaches. Fundamental concepts regarding the nature of people and organizations are also outlined.
The document provides an overview of organizational behavior (OB). It defines OB as the systematic study of how individuals and groups act within organizations. The goals of OB include describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in organizations. Key forces that influence organizational behavior include people, structure, technology, and the external environment. Effective OB helps improve organizational performance and effectiveness.
Ob i intro- diversity- personality & values- emotions & moodsShivkumar Menon
This document provides an overview and introduction to organizational behavior (OB). It discusses what OB is, why it is studied, and the basic OB model. It also covers key topics in OB like diversity, personality, emotions, and skills required for managerial effectiveness. The basic OB model shows inputs, processes, and outcomes at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Dependent variables in OB include productivity, effectiveness, efficiency, absenteeism, turnover, job satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behavior.
This document provides an introduction to organizational behavior. It discusses how the field has evolved to focus more on human behavior and interpersonal skills. It defines organizational behavior as investigating how individuals, groups, and organizational structure impact behavior within organizations. The goal is to apply this knowledge to improve organizational effectiveness. Several management theories are outlined, including Mintzberg's 10 managerial roles and Fayol's 5 management functions. Factors that influence individual and group behavior are explored, drawing from various behavioral science disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology. The dependent and independent variables in organizational behavior are defined. Self-esteem and self-efficacy theories are also summarized.
This document provides an overview of the key topics covered in the first chapter of an Organizational Behavior course, including:
1. The chapter introduces concepts like what managers do, defining organizational behavior, and explaining the value of systematically studying OB.
2. It discusses learning objectives, what organizations are, and the nature of people and motivated behavior in organizational contexts.
3. OB is introduced as the field studying how individuals, groups, and organizational structures influence workplace behavior to improve effectiveness. Key dependent and independent variables in OB models are also outlined.
Introduction to Organisational BehaviourISAAC Jayant
Organisational behavior is a field of study that investigates the impact that Individuals, Groups and Structure have on behavior within organization for the purpose of applying such knowledge towards improving an organisations effectiveness. (Stephen. P. Robbins).
Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how organizations manage their environments. OB focuses on improving productivity by understanding employee behavior and predicting human behavior in organizations. Behavior is generally predictable but depends on circumstances. To study OB effectively requires a systematic, evidence-based approach rather than just common sense. OB draws from various disciplines like psychology, sociology, and political science to analyze behavior at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
This document provides an overview of the key topics covered in an organizational behavior course. It defines organizational behavior as the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations and how their behaviors impact organizational effectiveness. It describes managers' core functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling work. It also identifies several challenges and opportunities for applying organizational behavior concepts, such as responding to economic pressures, globalization, diversity, innovation and work-life balance.
Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of how individuals and groups act within organizations. [1] OB has the goals of describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in organizational settings to improve organizational effectiveness. [2] It draws on various disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology. [3] OB faces challenges like improving employee skills, quality, and diversity to meet business goals in an increasingly global environment.
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior concepts from a textbook. It defines organizational behavior, describes what managers do and their functions. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, the skills effective managers need, and the challenges and opportunities managers face in areas like quality improvement, diversity, and globalization. The core OB model shows individual, group and system-level independent variables that impact dependent variables like productivity, absenteeism and job satisfaction.
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior concepts from a textbook. It defines organizational behavior, describes what managers do and their functions. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, the skills effective managers need, and the challenges and opportunities managers face in areas like quality management, workforce diversity, and globalization. The core OB model shows individual, group and organizational factors as independent variables that impact dependent variables like productivity, absenteeism and job satisfaction.
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior concepts from a textbook. It defines organizational behavior, describes what managers do and their functions. It also discusses Mintzberg's managerial roles, the skills effective managers need, and the challenges and opportunities organizational behavior can help address, such as quality improvement, diversity, and globalization. The behavioral science disciplines that contribute to organizational behavior are identified.
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2. Learning Objectives
1.1 Demonstrate the importance of interpersonal skills in the
workplace.
1.2 Define organizational behavior (OB).
1.3 Show the value to OB of systematic study.
1.4 Identify the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to
OB.
1.5 Demonstrate why few absolutes apply to OB.
1.6 Identify managers’ challenges and opportunities in applying OB
concepts.
1.7 Compare the three levels of analysis in this text’s OB model.
1.8 Describe the key employability skills gained from studying OB
applicable to other majors or future careers.
3. Demonstrate the Importance of Interpersonal Skills in
the Workplace
Interpersonal skills are important because…
• ‘Good places to work’ have better financial performance.
• Better interpersonal skills result in lower turnover of quality employees and
higher quality applications for recruitment.
• There is a strong association between the quality of workplace relationships and
job satisfaction, stress, and turnover.
• It fosters social responsibility awareness.
4. Describe the Manager’s Functions, Roles, and Skills (1 of 4)
• Manager: Someone who gets things done through other people in organizations.
• Organization: A consciously coordinated social unit composed of two or more
people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal
or set of goals.
– Planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
• Mintzberg concluded that managers perform ten different, highly interrelated
roles or sets of behaviors attributable to their jobs.
5. Describe the Manager’s Functions, Roles, and Skills (2 of 4)
Exhibit 1-1 Minztberg’s Managerial Roles
Role Description
Interpersonal Blank
Figurehead Symbolic head; required to perform a number of routine duties of a legal or
social nature
Leader Responsible for the motivation and direction of employees
Liaison Maintains a network of outside contacts who provide favors and information
Informational Blank
Monitor Receives a wide variety of information; serves as nerve center of
internal and external information of the organization
Disseminator Transmits information received from outsiders or from other employees
to members of the organization
7. Describe the Manager’s Functions, Roles, and Skills (4 of 4)
• Management Skills
– Technical Skills – the ability to apply specialized knowledge
or expertise. All jobs require some specialized expertise,
and many people develop their technical skills on the job.
– Human Skills – the ability to work with, understand, and
motivate other people.
– Conceptual Skills – the mental ability to analyze and
diagnose complex situations.
8. Effective Versus Successful Managerial Activities (1 of 2)
• Luthans and his associates found that all managers engage in
four managerial activities:
• Traditional management
• Communication
• Human resource management
• Networking
9. Effective Versus Successful Managerial Activities (2 of 2)
Exhibit 1-2 Allocation of Activities by Time
Source: Based on F. Luthans, R. M. Hodgetts, and S. A. Rosenkrantz, Real Managers (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1988).
10. Define Organizational Behavior
Organizational behavior (OB) is a field of study that
investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and
structure have on behavior within organizations for the
purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an
organization’s effectiveness.
11. Complementing Intuition with Systematic Study
• Systematic Study of Behavior
• Behavior generally is predictable if we know how the person
perceived the situation and what is important to him or her.
• Evidence-Based Management (EBM)
• Complements systematic study.
• Argues for managers to make decisions based on evidence.
• Intuition
• Systematic study and EBM add to intuition, or those “gut
feelings” about “why I do what I do” and “what makes others
tick.”
• If we make all decisions with intuition or gut instinct, we’re likely
working with incomplete information.
12. Big Data
• Background:
– The use of Big Data for managerial practices is a relatively new
area, but one that holds convincing promise.
• Current Usage:
• The reasons for data analytics include predicting any event,
detecting how much risk is incurred at any time, and
preventing catastrophes.
• New Trends:
• The use of Big Data for understanding, helping, and managing
people is relatively new but holds promise.
• Limitations:
• Use evidence as much as possible to inform your intuition and
experience.
13. Identify the Major Behavioral Science
Disciplines That Contribute to OB (1 of 4)
• Organizational behavior is an applied behavioral science that is
built upon contributions from a number of behavioral
disciplines:
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Sociology
• Anthropology
14. Identify the Major Behavioral Science
Disciplines That Contribute to OB (2 of 4)
Exhibit 1-3 Toward an OB
Discipline
15. Identify the Major Behavioral Science
Disciplines That Contribute to OB (3 of 4)
• Psychology
• seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the
behavior of humans and other animals.
• Social psychology
• blends the concepts of psychology and sociology.
16. Identify the Major Behavioral Science
Disciplines That Contribute to OB (4 of 4)
• Sociology
• studies people in relation to their social environment or
culture.
• Anthropology
• is the study of societies to learn about human beings and
their activities.
17. Demonstrate Why Few Absolutes Apply to OB
• There are few, if any, simple and universal principles that
explain organizational behavior.
• Contingency variables situational factors are variables that
moderate the relationship between the independent and
dependent variables.
18. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (1 of 12)
Exhibit 1-4 Employment Options
Sources: Based on J. R. Anderson, E. Binney, N. M. Davis, G. Kraft, S. Miller, T. Minton-Eversole, . . . and A. Wright, “Action Items: 42
Trends Affecting Benefits, Compensation, Training, Staffing and Technology,” HR Magazine (January 2013): 33; M. Dewhurst, B.
Hancock, and D. Ellsworth, “Redesigning Knowledge Work,” Harvard Business Review (January–February 2013): 58–64; E.
Frauenheim, “Creating a New Contingent Culture,” Workforce Management (August 2012): 34–39; N. Koeppen, “State Job Aid
Takes Pressure off Germany,” The Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2013, A8; and M. A. Shaffer, M. L. Kraimer, Y.-P. Chen, and M. C.
Bolino, “Choices, Challenges, and Career Consequences of Global Work Experiences: A Review and Future Agenda,” Journal of
Management (July 2012): 1282–1327.
19. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (2 of 12)
• Responding to economic pressure
• In tough economic times, effective management is an
asset.
• In good times, understanding how to reward, satisfy, and
retain employees is at a premium.
• In bad times, issues like stress, decision making, and
coping come to the forefront.
20. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (3 of 12)
• Responding to globalization
• Increased foreign assignments.
• Working with people from different cultures.
• Overseeing movement of jobs to countries with low-cost
labor.
• Adapting to differing cultural and regulatory norms.
21. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (4 of 12)
OB POLL Percentage of Men and Women Working
Sources: Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Women in the Labor Force: A Datebook,” 2014,
www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/women-in-the-labor-force-adatabook-2014.pdf; and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Economic
News Release,” 2013, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.t02.htm.
22. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (5 of 12)
• Managing workforce diversity
• Workforce diversity – organizations are becoming more
heterogeneous in terms of gender, age, race, ethnicity,
sexual orientation, and inclusion of Workforce other
diverse groups.
23. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (6 of 12)
• Improving customer service
• Service employees have substantial interaction with
customers.
• Employee attitudes and behavior are associated with
customer satisfaction.
• Need a customer-responsive culture.
24. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (7 of 12)
• Improving people skills
• People skills are essential to managerial effectiveness.
• OB provides the concepts and theories that allow
managers to predict employee behavior in given situations.
25. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (8 of 12)
• Working in networked organizations
• Networked organizations are becoming more pronounced.
• A manager’s job is fundamentally different in networked
organizations.
• Challenges of motivating and leading “online” require
different techniques.
26. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (9 of 12)
• Using social media at work
• Policies on accessing social media at work.
• When, where, and for what purpose.
• Impact of social media on employee well-being.
27. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (10 of 12)
• Enhancing employee well-being at work
• The creation of the global workforce means work no
longer sleeps.
• Communication technology has provided a vehicle for
working at any time or any place.
• Employees are working longer hours per week.
• The lifestyles of families have changed—creating conflict.
• Balancing work and life demands now surpasses job
security as an employee priority.
28. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (11 of 12)
• Creating a positive work environment
• Positive organizational scholarship is concerned with how
organizations develop human strength, foster vitality and
resilience, and unlock potential.
• This field of study focuses on employees’ strengths versus
their limitations, as employees share situations in which
they performed at their personal best.
29. Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB
Concepts (12 of 12)
• Improving ethical behavior
• Ethical dilemmas and ethical choices are situations in
which an individual is required to define right and wrong
conduct.
• Good ethical behavior is not so easily defined.
• Organizations distribute codes of ethics to guide
employees through ethical dilemmas.
• Managers need to create an ethically healthy climate.
30. Three Levels of Analysis in This Text’s OB
Model
Exhibit 1-5 A Basic OB Model
31. Three Levels of Analysis in This Book’s OB Model (1 of 3)
• Inputs
• Variables like personality,
group structure, and
organizational culture that
lead to processes.
• Group structure, roles, and
team responsibilities are
typically assigned
immediately before or after a
group is formed.
• Organizational structure and
culture change over time.
32. Three Levels of Analysis in This Book’s OB Model (2 of 3)
• Processes
• If inputs are like the nouns
in organizational behavior,
processes are like verbs.
• Defined as actions that
individuals, groups, and
organizations engage in as a
result of inputs, and that
lead to certain outcomes.
33. Three Levels of Analysis in This Book’s OB Model (3 of 3)
• Outcomes
• Key variables that you want
to explain or predict, and
that are affected by some
other variables.
34. Outcome Variables (1 of 6)
• Attitudes and stress
• Employee attitudes are the evaluations employees make,
ranging from positive to negative, about objects, people,
or events.
• Stress is an unpleasant psychological process that occurs in
response to environmental pressures.
35. Outcome Variables (2 of 6)
• Task performance
• The combination of effectiveness and efficiency at doing
your core job tasks is a reflection of your level of task
performance.
36. Outcome Variables (3 of 6)
• Organizational citizenship behavior
• The discretionary behavior that is not part of an
employee’s formal job requirements, and that contributes
to the psychological and social environment of the
workplace, is called organizational citizenship behavior.
37. Outcome Variables (4 of 6)
• Withdrawal behavior
• Withdrawal behavior is the set of actions that employees
take to separate themselves from the organization.
38. Outcome Variables (5 of 6)
• Group cohesion
• Group cohesion is the extent to which members of a
group support and validate one another at work.
• Group functioning
• Group functioning refers to the quantity and quality of a
group’s work output.
39. Outcome Variables (6 of 6)
• Productivity
• An organization is productive if it achieves its goals by
transforming inputs into outputs at the lowest cost. This
requires both effectiveness and efficiency.
• Survival
• The final outcome is organizational survival, which is
simply evidence that the organization is able to exist and
grow over the long term.
40. The Plan of the Text
Exhibit 1-6 The Plan of the Text
41. Implications for Managers (1 of 2)
• Resist the inclination to rely on generalizations; some
provide valid insights into human behavior, but many are
erroneous.
• Use metrics and situational variables rather than “hunches”
to explain cause-and-effect relationships.
• Work on your interpersonal skills to increase your
leadership potential.
42. Implications for Managers (2 of 2)
• Improve your technical skills and conceptual skills through
training and staying current with OB trends like big data and
fast data.
• OB can improve your employees’ work quality and productivity
by showing you how to empower your employees, design and
implement change programs, improve customer service, and
help your employees balance work-life conflicts.
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Welcome to this Organizational Behavior course that uses the 18th edition of the textbook, Organizational Behavior by Robbins and Judge. This is considered among the most widely used OB textbooks in the world. Robbins and Judge are recognized as definitive aggregators of OB concepts, applications, and practices. The course and this book will provide you with a resource that will benefit you throughout your degree program and your professional life.
The first chapter entitled “What is Organizational Behavior,” begins by defining eight learning objectives for the chapter. These lay a foundational understanding for the origins of OB and its applications in management and organizational existence. You should focus on this chapter to ground yourself, and as a starting place for the more complex and significant concepts throughout the book. We will elaborate on each of these objectives to ensure that you acquire a base knowledge of the core OB competencies.
Managers need a cadre of skills to create a productive workplace, including technical and quantitative skills. However, leadership and communication skills are critical to organizational success. When managers have solid interpersonal skills, there are positive work outcomes for the organization. These outcomes include lower turnover of strong employees, improved recruitment pools for filling employment positions, and a better bottom line.
A manager is someone in the organization who gets things done through the efforts of other people. It is important to keep in mind that an organization is defined as a social entity comprised of two or more people and can be found at any level within the organization.
The work of managers revolves around four functions: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. When thinking about these functions, one realization comes forward: that they all involve the interpersonal skills of communication for their effective implementation.
Henry Mintzberg looked at management differently when he defined the 10 roles of managers. As shown on the next slide, you will see that they again involve implementation through the interpersonal skills of communication.
In fact, if you look at the three categories of roles suggested by Mintzberg – interpersonal, informational, and decisional—you will note the distribution of communication and interpersonal skills such as tact, diplomacy, and the like, focusing on both internal and external audiences in the role’s activities. For this reason, developing the interpersonal skills introduced in this course is essential to the professional development of young professionals and is essential to managerial success.
In fact, if you look at the three categories of roles suggested by Mintzberg—interpersonal, informational, and decisional—you will note the distribution of communication and interpersonal skills such as tact, diplomacy, and the like, focusing on both internal and external audiences in the role’s activities. For this reason, developing the interpersonal skills introduced in this course is essential to the professional development of young professionals and is essential to managerial success.
What skills do managers need to effectively achieve their goals? Researchers have identified several skills that set successful managers apart from their less effective counterparts. These include technical skills, human skills, and conceptual skills.
Luthans and his research associates found that all managers engage in four managerial activities.
Traditional management is decision making, planning, and controlling. The average manager spent 32 percent of his or her time performing this activity.
Communication involves exchanging routine information and processing paperwork. The average manager spent 29 percent of his or her time performing this activity.
Human resource management includes motivating, disciplining, managing conflict, staffing, and training. The average manager spent 20 percent of his or her time performing this activity.
Networking is socializing, politicking, and interacting with outsiders. The average manager spent 19 percent of his or her time performing this activity.
Managers who were high performing in these activities were found to be fast-tracked through organizational promotion.
Organizational behavior (OB) is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. More specifically, OB explores motivation, leader behavior and power, interpersonal communication, group structure and processes, attitude development and perception, change processes, conflict and negotiation, and work design.
Many people say that the ideas and concepts of OB are common sense. However, the systematic study of OB has come closer to finding ways to predict the behavior of individuals and groups through an understanding of the situation and composition of the people. Evidence-based management (EBM) complements systematic study by basing managerial decisions on the best available scientific evidence.
“Intuition” is a decision-making approach advocated by numerous managers and pundits. However, if we make all decisions with intuition or gut instinct, we likely working with incomplete information. EBM and the systematic study of behavior enhance the understanding of these internal contributors to organizational behavior.
The recent availability of “big data” shows promise for the field of OB, potentially providing evidence that can be used to support intuition and experience.
OB is a behavioral social science that merges concepts from a number of different social sciences to apply specifically to the organizational setting at both the individual (or micro) and group (or macro) levels. The most significant social sciences are psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Look at each for a moment.
This exhibit shows the contributions made by other disciplines to the development of organizational behavior. Notice the predominant areas of psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Each of the disciplines has contributed specific concepts and theories to the study of OB and its increasing applications.
Psychology focuses on the individual level by seeking to measure, explain, and sometimes change behaviors in individuals. This area of study offers insights into such areas as learning, training, decision-making, and employee selection.
Social psychology moves beyond individual analysis to look at group behavior and how individuals can influence one another. It blends together sociology and psychology and looks primarily at change, communication, and group interactions.
Sociology looks at the relationship between people and their environment. Sociologists’ main contribution to OB has been a better understanding of group behavior, particularly in formal and complex organizations. Another key area that sociologists contribute to in OB is organizational culture, a key factor in OB studies.
Anthropologists study societies to learn about human beings and their activities. They help us understand the differences between different groups in terms of their values, attitudes, and behaviors.
There are few absolutes in organizational behavior. When making decisions, you must always take into account the situational factors that can change the relationship between two variables. Every situation has the potential to have unseen factors or even known factors that can change rapidly. Opening your minds to detecting these changes and unseen factors, and to being ready with optional responses, is essential to effective management.
Today’s economic uncertainty has created new challenges in the workplace. This exhibit shows some of the types of options individuals may have or would like to have.
During economic difficulties, the need for effective management is heightened. Anyone can manage during good times; it is much tougher to manage effectively through economic struggles.
In bad economic times, resource constraints may force managers to make tough decisions, such as whether to lay off employees. It can also be difficult to motivate employees when resources are limited. Moreover, managers must be able to deal with employees who are stressed about their futures.
Globalization means that organizations now exist in an environment with no national borders. As a result, the manager’s job has changed. Managers today need to have a broader perspective when making decisions.
As foreign assignments increase, you will need to be able to manage a workforce that is different than what you may be used to, and which may bring different needs, aspirations, and attitudes to the workplace.
You will also have individuals who come from different cultures coming to work in your own country. You will need to find ways to accommodate their needs and help them assimilate to your workplace culture.
As more jobs move to countries with low-cost labor, managers will need to balance the needs of their organizations with the needs of the countries in which they operate.
In the new global village, managers need to understand the implications of differing cultural and legal practices on their operations. Violating local regulations and practices could have serious consequences for the organization.
As students of OB, we can investigate what factors lead employees to make various choices and how their experiences affect their perceptions of their workplaces. In turn, this can help us predict organizational outcomes. As shown in the OB Poll for example, the days when women stayed home because it was expected are just a memory in some cultures, while in others, women still face significant barriers to entry into the workplace.
As the borders are disappearing, we are seeing more and more heterogeneity in the workplace. Managers today need to embrace diversity and find ways to manage it effectively. The changing demographics have shifted management philosophy in a way that recognizes and utilizes differences to create productivity, profitability, and welcoming workplace cultures.
Many jobs today involve substantial interaction with customers. Managers can increase the chance that these interactions will be successful by focusing on employee attitudes and behavior. Companies need to develop customer-responsive cultures wherein employees are friendly and courteous, accessible, knowledgeable, prompt with their responses, and willing to do what is necessary to ensure that customers are satisfied.
Because organizations are composed of people, organizations cannot achieve desired outcomes without them. Therefore, the skills to manage people successfully are essential to the effectiveness of anyone in a managerial or leadership role. OB provides the concepts and theories that help predict behavior to create a more effective organization, accomplishing desired goals.
Networked organizations are proliferating. These are organizations that are spread over geographic, time, or other boundaries and that are connected by technology. Managing and leading people who never see each other but who work together requires a different set of management and leadership skills.
Social media is a difficult issue for today’s manager, presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for OB.
Because of the expansion of networked business to global competition, time is no longer a definable boundary of organizational activity and personnel responsibility. Managers and leaders of organizations are challenged to help employees find ways to balance work and life roles to ensure they remain effective and viable members of the team. Employees who feel as though they don’t get a break and who believe they must work 24 hours a day can be less effective, suffering from burnout and dissatisfaction.
Creating a positive work environment has been found to be a basis for employee satisfaction, increased productivity, and longevity of skilled personnel. Responsibility for positive work environments is not a part of traditional management practice, but as the work environment has changed in terms of characteristics and behaviors of younger generations, the focus on making work a good place to be has become more important for success. Positive organizational scholarship studies what is “good” about organizations.
Increased scrutiny by society and governmental entities has increased business concerns with ethical behavior. Lapses in ethical behavior have resulted in everything ranging from public sanctions against businesses to legal penalties against a firm and its managers.
Ethical dilemmas require managers to make decisions involving right and wrong conduct. Managers and leaders must clearly define what constitutes appropriate, ethical behavior by the organization and its people, and they must lead by example.
This book proposes three types of variables—inputs, processes, and outcomes—at three levels of analysis: individual, group, and organizational.
The basic OB model here proceeds from left to right, with inputs leading to processes and processes leading to outcomes. Notice that the model also shows that outcomes can influence inputs in the future.
Inputs are factors that exist in advance of the employment relationships. For example, individual diversity characteristics, personality, and values are shaped by a combination of an individual’s genetic inheritance and childhood environment.
Group structure, roles, and team responsibilities are typically assigned immediately before or after a group is formed.
Finally, organizational structure and culture are usually the result of years of development and change as the organization adapts to its environment and builds up customs and norms.
Processes are actions that individuals, groups, and organizations engage in as a result of inputs, and that lead to certain outcomes.
At the individual level, processes include emotions and moods, motivation, perception, and decision-making.
At the group level, they include communication, leadership, power and politics, and conflict and negotiation.
Finally, at the organizational level, processes include human resource management and change practices.
Scholars have emphasized individual-level outcomes like attitudes and satisfaction, task performance, citizenship behavior, and withdrawal behavior.
At the group level, cohesion and functioning are the dependent variables.
Finally, at the organizational level, we look at overall profitability and survival.
Because these outcomes will be covered in all of the chapters, we will briefly discuss each of them on the following slides, so you can understand what the “goal” of OB will be.
The belief that satisfied employees are more productive than dissatisfied employees has been a basic tenet among managers for years, though only now research has begun to support it. Some people might think that influencing employee attitudes and stress is purely soft stuff, and not the business of serious managers, but as we will show, attitudes often have behavioral consequences that relate directly to organizational effectiveness.
Task performance is the most important human output contributing to organizational effectiveness, so in every chapter we devote considerable time to discussing how task performance is affected by specific topics.
In today’s dynamic workplace, where tasks are increasingly performed by teams and flexibility is critical, employees who engage in good citizenship behaviors help others on their team by volunteering for extra work, avoiding unnecessary conflicts, respecting the spirit as well as the letter of rules and regulations, and gracefully tolerating occasional work-related impositions and nuisances.
Employee withdrawal can have a very negative effect on an organization. The cost of employee turnover alone has been estimated to run into the thousands of dollars, even for entry-level positions. Absenteeism also costs organizations significant amounts of money and time every year. For instance, a recent survey found the average direct cost to U.S. employers of unscheduled absences is 8.7 percent of payroll.
When employees trust one another, seek common goals, and work together to achieve these common goals, the group is cohesive. Conversely, when employees are divided among themselves in terms of what they want to achieve and have little loyalty to one another, the group is not cohesive. And the greater the group’s cohesion, the greater the effect of group functioning that leads to effective outcomes and satisfying impacts on group members.
Popular measures of organizational efficiency include return on investment, profit per dollar of sales, and output per hour of labor. Service organizations must include customer needs and requirements in assessing their effectiveness. These measures of productivity are affected by the behaviors of managers, employees, and supervisors. Increased productivity leads to the ultimate goal of most organizations, which is the survival of the firm.
As you can see in this exhibit, we will deal with inputs, processes, and outcomes at all three levels of analysis, but we group the chapters as shown here to correspond with the typical ways that research has been done in these areas.
This first chapter has provided a firm foundation that will be the basis for the study and application of concepts and practices that make the young professional more successful in productivity, job satisfaction, and career development. The systematic study of OB can improve predictability of behavior and, while it is not perfect, it provides excellent roadmaps to guide managers and leaders. These studies help to ensure that contingencies are in place to better understand people’s behaviors and how to influence them for the success of the employee and the organization.
It is important for managers to develop their interpersonal “people skills” to be effective. Understanding OB makes their organizations work more effectively by improving productivity, reducing absenteeism, turnover, and deviant workplace behavior, and increasing organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction.