03 - Organizational Behaviour
03 - Organizational Behaviour
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
What is OB…?
Mentor Innovator
External Focus
Internal Focus
Facilitator Broker
Monitor Producer
Coordinator Director
Control
How Companies are Changing
Group Level
• Working with others
• Workforce diversity Workplace
Individual Level
• Job satisfaction
• Empowerment
• Behaving ethically
Today’s Challenges
in the Canadian Workplace
The Organization
Change
Organizational culture
Decision making
The Group Leadership
For Managers
For Individuals
Exhibit 1-3 Toward an OB Discipline
Behavioural Contribution Unit of Output
science analysis
Learning
Motivation
Perception
Training
Leadership effectiveness
Job satisfaction
Psychology Individual decision making
Performance appraisal
Attitude measurement
Employee selection
Work design
Work stress
Individual
Group dynamics
Work teams
Communication
Power
Conflict
Intergroup behaviour
Sociology
Behavioural change
Attitude change
Social psychology Communication
Group processes
Group decision making
Organization
Comparative values system
Comparative attitudes
Cross-cultural analysis
Anthropology
Organizational culture
Organizational environment
Conflict
Political science Intraorganizational politics
Power
Exhibit 1-2
Research
Methods in OB
Bottom Line: OB Is For Everyone