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    Anchors of Organizational Behavior Knowledge CHP1

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    Organizational behavior knowledge is anchored by several key principles: 1) It draws from multiple disciplines like psychology, sociology, and emerging fields to understand individual, group, and organizational dynamics. 2) It is based on systematic research through questions, data collection, and testing of hypotheses. 3) It recognizes that there is no single best solution and that actions must be contingent on the situation being diagnosed. 4) It analyzes behavior at three levels - the individual, team, and organization.

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    Organizational behavior knowledge is anchored by several key principles: 1) It draws from multiple disciplines like psychology, sociology, and emerging fields to understand individual, group, and organizational dynamics. 2) It is based on systematic research through questions, data collection, and testing of hypotheses. 3) It recognizes that there is no single best solution and that actions must be contingent on the situation being diagnosed. 4) It analyzes behavior at three levels - the individual, team, and organization.

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    Anchors of Organizational Behavior Knowledge CHP1

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    Organizational behavior knowledge is anchored by several key principles: 1) It draws from multiple disciplines like psychology, sociology, and emerging fields to understand individual, group, and organizational dynamics. 2) It is based on systematic research through questions, data collection, and testing of hypotheses. 3) It recognizes that there is no single best solution and that actions must be contingent on the situation being diagnosed. 4) It analyzes behavior at three levels - the individual, team, and organization.

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    Anchors of Organizational Behavior Knowledge:

    Globalization, increasing workforce diversity and emerging employment relationship are


    just a few of the trends that challenge organizations and make Organizational Behavior
    knowledge more relevant than ever before. Conceptual anchors represent the principles on which
    Organizational Behavior knowledge is developed and refined. The anchors of Organizational
    Behavior knowledge are multidisciplinary anchor, systematic research anchor, contingency
    anchor, multiple levels of analysis anchor and open system.

    Firstly, multidisciplinary anchor. Organizational behavior is anchored around the idea that
    the field should develop from knowledge in other disciplines not just its own isolated research
    base. For example, psychological research has aided our understanding of individual and
    interpersonal behavior. Sociologist has contributed to our knowledge of team dynamics,
    organizational socialization, organizational power and other aspects of the social system. OB
    knowledge has also benefited from knowledge in emerging fields such as communications,
    marketing and information systems.

    Secondly, systematic research anchors. A critical feature of OB knowledge is that it should


    be based on systematic research which typically involves forming research questions,
    systematically collecting data, and testing hypothesis against those data. OB researcher relies on
    scientific method and it also adopting grounded theory and similar qualitative approaches to
    knowledge.

    Thirdly, contingency anchor. People and their work environment is complex and the fields
    of organizational behavior recognize this by stating that a particular action may have different
    situations. In other words, no single solution is best in all circumstances. Contingency anchor is
    a particular action may have different situations and it also need to diagnose the situation and
    select best strategy under those conditions.

    Fourthly, multiple level of analysis anchor. OB knowledge is divided into three levels of
    analysis which are individual, team and organization. The individual level includes the
    characteristics and behavior of employees as well as the thought process that are attributed to
    them such as motivation, perceptions, personalities, attitudes and values. The team level is the
    analysis looks at the way people interact. It includes team dynamics, communication, power,
    conflict and leaderships. The organizational level is focus on how people structure their working
    relationships and on how organization interacts with their environments.

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