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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Lecture 1 What is Organizational Behavior?. What Managers Do. Managerial Activities Make decisions Allocate resources Direct activities of others to attain goals. Where Managers Work. Planning. Organizing. Controlling. Leading.
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Lecture 1What is Organizational Behavior?
What Managers Do • Managerial Activities • Make decisions • Allocate resources • Direct activities of others to attain goals
Planning Organizing Controlling Leading Management Functions ManagementFunctions
Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles. 1960 MIT Graduate 1-1a E X H I B I T
Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles (cont’d) 1-1b E X H I B I T
Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles (cont’d) 1-1c E X H I B I T
Goals , Objectives & Strategies • Goals & Objectives • Goals are broad, objectives are narrow • Examples: • Goals: knows about the human body. • Objectives: LWBAT name all of the bones in the human body as stated in the medical textbook "The Human Body". • Goals: I want to achieve success in the field of genetic research and do what no one has ever done. • Objectives: I want to complete this thesis on genetic research by the end of this month. • Strategy • A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim or is a high level plan to achieve one or more goals
Organizational Behavior (OB) can be defined as the understanding, prediction and management of human behavior both individually or in a group that occur within an organization.
Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field 1-3a E X H I B I T
Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d) 1-3b E X H I B I T
Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d) 1-3c E X H I B I T
Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d) 1-3d E X H I B I T
Challenges and Opportunity for OB • 1. Responding to Globalization: • Increased foreign assignments • Working with people from different cultures. No beef burger in India • 2. Managing workforce diversity: • Gender, race, national origin, age, disability, • Changing demographics • Workforce diversity can increase creativity and (Canada) innovation in organizations as well as improve decision making by providing different perspective on problem.
3. Improving customer services: • Today’s managers understand that success of any effort at improving services must include their employees. • 4. Improving people skills: • We’ll present relevant concepts and theories that can help you explain and predict the behavior of people at work. • Learn a ways to motivate people • How to be a better communicator • How to create more effective teams
Stimulating innovation and change • Today’s successful organizations must foster innovation and master the art of change or they’ll become candidate for extinction. • An organization’s employees can be the impetus for innovation and change or they can be a majors stumbling block. • The challenge for managers is to stimulate their employees’ creativity and tolerance for change.
Coping with “temporariness”: • Managing today would be more accurately described as long periods of ongoing change, interrupted occasionally by short periods of stability! • The actual jobs that workers perform are in a permanent state of flux. • So workers need to continually update their knowledge and skills to perform new job requirements.
Helping employees balance work/life conflicts: • A number of forces have contributed to blurring the lines between employee work and personal lives. • First, the creation of global organizations means their world never sleeps. • Second, communication technology allows employee to do their work at home, in their car, or on the beach in Tahiti. • Third, organizations are asking employees to put in longer hours. • Finally, fewer families have only a single breadwinner
Improving ethical behavior: • Members of organizations are increasingly finding themselves facing ethical dilemmas, situations in which they are required to define right and wrong conduct. • In recent years, the line differentiating right from wrong has become even more unclear. • Managers and their organizations are writing and distributing codes of ethics to guide employees through ethical dilemmas.
Basic OB Model 1-6 E X H I B I T
1. Individual behavior • values, attitudes, perception, and learning • the role of personality and emotions • motivation issues • 2. Group behavior • Group behavior model • Ways to make teams more effective • Communication issues and group decision making • Leadership, trust, power, politics, conflict and negotiation • 3. Organizational behaviors • Culture, structure, ….
Individual-Level Variables Group-LevelVariables OrganizationSystem-LevelVariables The Independent Variables IndependentVariables