Organizational behavior

 

Define organization and behaviour.

An organization is 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. Behaviour

refers to anything that a person does and can be observed in some way.

 

 Define organizational behaviour.

Organizational behaviour is directly concerned with the understanding, prediction, and control of

human behaviour in an organization. In other words, organizational behaviour is a field of study

that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structures have on behaviour within an

organization with the purpose of applying such knowledge for improvement of organizations

effectiveness.

 

Some of the major importance of OB are listed as follows:

• It helps to understand organization and employee in a better way.

• It motivates employees.

• It helps to improve labor relations.

 

What are the outputs of Organizational Behaviour system?

 

The key outputs of OB system are enlisted as follows:

• Productivity

• Absenteeism

• Turnover

• Organization citizenship behaviour

• Job satisfaction

 

is it important to understand organizational behaviour?

 

Organizational behaviour is directly concerned with the understanding, prediction, and control of

human behaviour in an organization. In other words, organizational behaviour is a field of study

that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structures have on behaviour within an

organization with the purpose of applying such knowledge for improvement of organizations

effectiveness.

Understanding organization is important because we spend our lives interacting with them. If the

world is a stage, it is a stage filled with organizations. We play our roles/parts on an

organizational stage. By acting our parts, we influence organizations and organizations also

influence us. In this regard, it is extremely important to understand these behavioural aspects of

organization. The necessity to understanding OB is explained through the following points.

The study of OB helps us understand ourselves and others in a better way. This helps greatly in

improving our inter-personal relations in the organizations. Friendly and cordial relations

between employees and management and also among the employees create a congenial work

environment in organizations.

The knowledge of OB helps the managers know individual employees better and motivate

employees to work for better results. It helps managers apply appropriate motivational

techniques in accordance to the nature of individual employees who exhibit glaring differences

in many respects. One of the basic characteristics of OB is that it is human in nature. So to say,

OB tackles human problems humanly. It helps understand the cause of the problem predicts its

future course of action and controls its evil consequences. Thus, treating employees as human

beings enables the managers to maintain cordial industrial relations which, in turn, create peace

and harmony in the organization.

Another popular reason for studying OB is to learn how to predict human behaviour and, then,

apply it in some useful way to make the organization more effective. Thus, knowledge of OB

becomes a pre-requisite to students of BBS who is going to assume a managerial job. Finally, all

organizations are run by human. Human working in the organizations makes all the difference.

This is where OB comes into the picture. OB helps managers to efficiently manage human

resources in an organization. It enables managers to inspire and motivate employees towards

productivity and better results.

 

State briefly the levels of analysis of OB.

Levels of OB

OB is the systematic study of what people do in an organization and how their behaviour affects

organization’s performance. Analysis of organizational behaviour can be done in reference to

three key levels explained below:

i. Individual level: OB views organization as individual's behaviour. It studies the individual

behaviour of people and how they react to organizational plan, policies, etc. Psychological

theories like learning, motivation and leadership are also considered in studying the behaviour of

an individual. It also studies the factor iike learning, perception, belief, and attitude of each

individual.

ii. Group level: OB views organization as the group behaviour. It studies how the group interacts

with each other? How they work? What types of task the groups are performing? How does

leadership influence to the group? Etc.

iii. Organizational level: OB is the behavioural science. It studies the behaviour of organization

as a whole. In studying the organization, it applies the knowledge of behavioural science. OB

analyzes how the organizational structure, designs, technology influences the organizational

effectiveness. It tries to focus the relationship between organization and environmental factor

that directly or indirectly affects the organization.