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MGMT 330 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR. CHAPTER 1 THE MEANING AND SCOPE OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR. WHAT IS OB?. A study of human behaviour , attitudes and performance in organization. Interaction between individual and organization
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WHAT IS OB? • A study of human behaviour, attitudes and performance in organization. • Interaction between individual and organization • An interdisciplinary – drawing on concepts from social and clinical psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, industrial engineering and organizational psychology.
UNIT OF ANALYSIS • Individual • Group • Organization
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OB AND MANAGEMENT • Organizational behaviour: • Interaction between individual and organization • Management: • A critical element in the economic growth of the country • Essential in all organized effort • The dynamic, life giving element in every organization
WHY STUDY OB? • Cherrington identified three main objectives in organizational behaviour: • Explain • Clarify • Control
CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT • Consists of three streams of thought: • Bureaucratic organization • Max Webber • Administrative management • How organizations should be managed and structured • Henri Fayol and Chester Barnard • Scientific management • Application of scientific methods to increase individual worker’s productivity • Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Gantt and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
HAWTHORNE STUDIES • The Test Room Studies • Interviewing Studies • Observational Studies
HUMAN RELATIONS SCHOOL • Abraham Maslow • Motivation theory • Human needs • Human behaviour • Hierarchy of needs • Douglas Mc Gregor • Theory X and Y
EARLY BEHAVIOUR THEORY • Mary Parker Follett • Management is getting things done with and through other people • Sharing of empowerment through working together between employer and employee • Conflict solution through integration • Hugo Munsterberg • Implement psychology approach in organization’s problem • Psychology study is very relevant in organizational behaviour
CHALLENGES IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR • Business and industry towards globalization and international • Quality is more important • Society is concern on management ethics • Increase of diversity among employees
DISCIPLINE OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR • Psychology • Sociology • Political science • Economy • Ecology
PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE • Psychology discipline is the most influent discipline in an organization • Focus on understanding individual’s behaviour • Biographic • Talent • Personality • Learning • Motivation
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE • Focus on group behaviour • Conflict and counseling • Communication
POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE • Empowerment and authority are part of political discipline • Distribution of power • Direction of attempts to influence: • Upward • Downward • Laterally
ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE • Economics perspective helps managers to make decision • Techniques on problem solving • Decision making: • Individual • Group
ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE • Organization as a sub-system of society • Environmental factors: • Suppliers • Distributors • Customers • Competitors
ATTITUDES • Reflects an individual’s background and experiences • Components of attitudes: • Affective component • Cognitive component • Behavioural component
PERCEPTION • The process by which people select, organize, interpret and respond to information form the world around them • Basic element in the perceptual process: • Environmental stimuli • Observation • Perceptual selection • Perceptual organization • Interpretation • Response
PERCEPTUAL PROCESS • The perceptual process is a sequence of steps that begins with the environment and leads to our perception of a stimulus and an action in response to the stimulus. • The process is continual but we do not spend time thinking about the actual process that occurs when we perceive many stimuli that surround us at any moment
ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI • Everything in our environment that has the potential to be perceived • Includes anything that can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, heard, movements of the arms and legs or change in position of the body in relation to objects in the environment • Objects and people in the immediate environment
OBSERVATION • Taste • Smell • Hearing • Sight • Touch
PERCEPTUAL SELECTION • Depends on several factors: • External factors: • Size • Intensity • Contrast • Motion • Repetition • Novelty and familiarity • Internal factors: • Personality • Learning • Motivation
PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION • Perceptual organization • Continuity • Closure • Proximity • Similarity
INTERPRETATION • Perceptual errors • Perceptual defense • Stereotyping • Halo effect • Projection • Expectancy effects • Attributions • Internal versus external causes • Causes for success and failure
RESPONSE • Convert • Attitudes • Motivations • Feelings • Overt • Behaviour
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE • Being used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs • Happens when an individual’s behaviour conflicts with beliefs that are integral to his or her self-identity • How to reduce? • Focus • Reduce • Change
PERSONALITY TRAITS/ TYPES • Heredity • Experience • Environment • Situation
PERSONALITY TRAITS THAT INFLUENCE ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR • Locus of control • Goal orientation • Authoritarianism • Machiavellianism • Self-esteem
WHAT IS A GROUP? • Members who share goals, communicate with one another over a period of time • Group classification: • Formal group • Informal group
FORMAL AND INFORMAL GROUPS • Formal groups • Functional group • Task group: • Permanent task group • Temporary task group • Informal groups • Interest group • Friendship group
WHY PEOPLE JOIN GROUPS? • Generating ideas • Networking • Task completion • Accuracy • Speed • Creativity • Cost
GROUP NORMS AND DYNAMICS • Behavioural norms • Rules of behavioural that are shared by members • Main function is to regulate and standardize the behaviours viewed as important to members • Performance norms • Exists when three criteria have been met: • Standard of appropriate behaviour • Members must agree on the standard • Members must aware that group support the standard
ROLE AND ROLE EXPECTATIONS • Role • Cluster of tasks and behaviours that a person should perform • Role expectation • What are you expected to do depending on what role you obtain • Example • If you are a police officer, then as your role as a police officer you would expected to protect the country
GROUP MEMBER ROLES • Task-oriented role • Involves facilitating and coordinating work-related decision making • Initiating, seeking information, giving information, coordinating and evaluating • Relation-oriented role • Involves building team-centered feelings and social interactions • Encouraging members, harmonizing, encouraging participation, expressing, following
GROUP MEMBER ROLES • Self-oriented role • Involves the person’s self-centered behaviours that are at the expense of the team or group • Blocking progress, seeking recognition, dominating, avoiding
INFORMAL ORGANIZATION AND ITS IMPACT • Informal organization is defined by the patterns, behaviours and interactions that stem from personal rather than official relationship • Emphasis is on people and their relationships • Workers may create an informal group to go bowling, form a union, discuss work challenges
EFFECT OF DIVERSITY ON GROUP PERFORMANCE • Poses a threat to the organization’s effective functioning • Expressed discomfort with the dominant group’s values • Members of the group want to become like the dominant • Positive multiculturalism
WHAT IS ORGANIZATION? • Organizations are formed so that people who share a common set of values or interest can work together towards achieving common objective • Elements of organization: • People • Objectives • Structure
WHAT IS ORGANIZATION? • AmitaiEtzioni • Organization is a social unit or human grouping, structured for the purpose of attaining specific goals • Stoner • Organization is a pattern of relationships through which people under direction of managers pursue their common goals
WHAT IS ORGANIZATION? • Vision • Mission • Strategy • Planning • Short term • Long term
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE • Distribution and segregation of work • Organizational chart • Key factors in organizational structure • Environmental factors • Strategic factors • Technological factors • Integrative framework
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE • Environmental factors • Suppliers • Distributors • Competitors • Customers • Strategic factors • Low cost • Differentiation • Focused
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE • Technological factors • Technology • Task interdependence • Pooled interdependence • Sequential interdependence • Reciprocal interdependence
MECHANISTIC STRUCTURE • Individuals and functions will behave in predictable ways • Characteristic of mechanistic structure • Clear, well-defined hierarchies of command • Defined jobs, technologies and processes • Centralization of decision making • Specialization, standardization and formalization