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Chapter 1: What Is Organizational Behavior?

Chapter 1: What Is Organizational Behavior?. LO 3. Define “Organizational Behavior” (OB).

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Chapter 1: What Is Organizational Behavior?

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  1. Chapter 1: What Is Organizational Behavior?

  2. LO 3 Define “Organizational Behavior” (OB) • 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.

  3. LO 2 Describe the Manager’s Functions, Roles, And Skills

  4. LO 2 Effective Versus Successful Managerial Activities

  5. LO 4 Show the Value to OB of 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.

  6. LO 5 Identify the Major Behavioral Science Disciplines That Contribute to OB

  7. LO 6 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.

  8. LO 7 Identify the Challenges and Opportunities of OB Concepts

  9. LO 8 Three Levels of Analysis in This Book’s OB Model

  10. LO 8 Outcome Variables

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