1. INTRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATION
BEHAVIOR
Prepared By :- Prof. Amit Thakkar
Asst. Professor
LJIET

2. People Are an Organization’s
Most Important Assets
OR
People is Key in Organisation

3. WHAT IS AN ORGANIZATION?
 Organizations are simply groups with two or
more people that share a certain set of
goals and meet at regular times.
What is Behavior
 This behavior occurs in organizations.

4. CONCEPT
 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
organization effectiveness.
 It studies determinants of behaviour in organization-
Individuals, groups and structure.
 It deals with jobs, work, absenteeism, employment
turnover, productivity, human performance and
Management.

5. WHY DO WE STUDY OB?
 To learn about yourself and how to deal with others
 You are part of an organization now, and will
continue to be a part of various organizations
 Organizations are increasingly expecting individuals
to be able to work in teams, at least some of the
time
 Some of you may want to be managers or
entrepreneurs

6. DEFINITIONS :
 According to L. M. Prasad, “Organisational
behaviour can be defined as the study and
application of knowledge about human behaviour
related to other elements of an organisation such
as structure, technology and social systems.”
 In words of K Aswathappa, “OB is the study of
human behaviour in organisational setting, of the
interface between human behaviour and
organisation and of the organisation itself.”
 According to Davis and Newstram, “Organisational
behaviour is the study and application of knowledge
about how people act within organisations.”

7.  In words of Stephen P. Robbins, “OB is a field of
study that investigates the impact that individuals,
groups and structures have on behaviour within
organisations for the purpose of applying such
knowledge towards improving an organisation’s
effectiveness.”
 According to Fred Luthans, “Behaviour is directly
concerned with the understanding, prediction and
control of human behaviour in organisations.”

8. ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR – SCOPE
 Impact of personality on performance
 Employee motivation
 Leadership
 How to create effective teams and groups
 Study of different organizational structures
 Individual behavior, attitude and learning
 Perception
 Design and development of effective organization
 Job design

9.  Impact of culture on organizational behavior
 Management of change
 Management of conflict and stress
 Organizational development
 Organizational culture
 Transactional analysis
 Group behavior, power and politics
 Job design

10. ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR – NATURE:
1. A Separate Field of Study and Not a Discipline
Only
2. An Interdisciplinary Approach
3. An Applied Science
4. A Normative Science
5. A Humanistic and Optimistic Approach
6. A Total System Approach

11. CONTRIBUTING FIELDS TO ORGANIZATION
BEHAVIOR
 Psychology
 Sociology

12.  Social psychology
 Antropology

13.  Political science
 Economics

14. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
 Responding to Economic Pressures
 Responding to Globalization
 Managing Workforce Diversity
 Improving Customer Service
 Improving People Skills
 Stimulating Innovation And Change
 Working in network organzation
 Helping a employees to Balance Work Life Conflict
 Creating a positive work enviroment

15. FOUNDATION OF OB
 There are differences between individuals
 A whole person
 Behavioral of an individual is caused
 Human dignity
 Organizations are social system
 Mutuality of interest among organization members
 Holistic organization behavior
 Need for Management

16. THE BASIC PROCESS OF OB
Understanding
Prediction Controlling

17. DEVELOPING AN OB MODEL
 The dependent Variable
 Productivity
 Absenteeism
 Turnover
 Deviant Work Place Behavior
 Organizational Citizenship Behavior Job
Satisfaction

18. THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
 Individual level Variables-
 Biographical Characteristics
 Personality & Emotion
 Values and Attitudes
 Perception
 Motivation
 Individual learning and Decision Making

19. GROUP
• Communication
• group decision making
• leadership and trust
• group structure
• Conflict
• power and politics
• work teams

20. ORGANIZATION
 Organizational culture,
 human resource policies and practices
 organizational structure and design

21. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR MODEL