What is Organizational Behavior Flashcards
What is organizational behaviour?
A field of study that investigates the impact of individuals, groups and structures on the behaviour within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving organizational effectiveness
What is an organization? (3)
- Groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose
- Collective entities
- Collective sense of purpose
What are the micro and macro concepts of behaviour determinants?
Micro Concept: The individual
Macro Concept: The group/ The organization
What are the three phases of behaviour determinants?
- Looks at employee behaviours, decisions, perceptions & emotional responses
- Examines how individuals and teams relates to each other and to their counterparts
- Encompasses how organizations interact with their external environment
What is the importance of Organizational behaviours for individuals? (4)
- Skills & knowledge that employers desire
- Better understand the workplace happenings
- Better predict workplace events
- Influence and coordinate workplace activities
What is the importance of Organizational behaviours for the organization? (5)
- Improve organizational effectiveness
- As an open system, maintain fit to ever-changing conditions
- Coordinate the transformants of inputs into outputs
- Leveraging human capital
- Satisfies the key needs of stakeholders
Why do we study OB?
Because some of the most important skills for new employees in communication and teamwork
What are four emerging workplace developments?
- Diversity and inclusion
- Work-life integration
- Remote work
- Emerging employee relationships
7 reasons we study OB?
- To increase your effectiveness in an organization
- To better understand yourself and colleagues
- To enhance communication
- To better understand motivators
- To become better negotiators
- To be the leader that employees want to follow
- To become better decision makers
