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Human Behavior Summary

Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in organizational settings. It aims to explain, predict, and control behavior to help achieve individual and organizational goals. Key elements that influence behavior are people, structure, technology, and environment. Studying organizational behavior provides benefits like developing people skills, personal growth, and enhancing effectiveness. It is important for organizations to consider ethics and ensure their actions are morally acceptable.

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Human Behavior Summary

Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in organizational settings. It aims to explain, predict, and control behavior to help achieve individual and organizational goals. Key elements that influence behavior are people, structure, technology, and environment. Studying organizational behavior provides benefits like developing people skills, personal growth, and enhancing effectiveness. It is important for organizations to consider ethics and ensure their actions are morally acceptable.

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Human behavior refers to the physical actions of a person that can be seen or heard such as smiling or

whistling. With this thoughts, feelings, emotions and sentiments, the person exhibits behaviors similar
or different when he is in or out of organizations/groups/teammates.

Organizational behavior may be defined as the study of human behavior in an organization, of the
interaction between individuals and the organization, and of the organization itself.

THREE GOALS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR:

1. To explain behavior
2. To predict behavior
3. To control behavior

ELEMENTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

1. People
2. Structure
3. Technology
4. Environment

Benefits of studying organizational behavior:

1. Development of people skills


2. Personal growth
3. Enhancement of organizational and individual effectiveness
4. Sharpening and refinement of common sense.

ETHICS – refers to the set of moral choices a person makes based on what he or she ought to do.

ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS – these are more principles that define right or wrong behavior in
organizations.

ETHICAL BEHAVIOR – this refers to behavior that is accepted as morally good and right as opposed to
bad and wrong.

ETHICAL ISSUES

1. Conflict of interest
2. Fairness and honesty
3. Communication
4. Relationships within the organization
SUMMARY:

People exhibit certain behavior in and out of organizations. The realization of individual, group, or
organizational goals will depend on the human factor, specifically human behavior.

The goals of Organizational behavior are to explain, predict, and control behavior.

The elements of Organizational behavior are people, structure, technology and environment.

The benefits of studying OB are: the development of people skills, personal growth, enhancement of
organizational and individual effectiveness and sharpening and refinement of common sense.

Organizational behavior is not an instant invention of man. Instead, it is a product of several stages of
inquiry into how people behave and how they can managed to be more productive. Personalities, great
and small, contributed to the development of Organizational behavior. Taylor, Mayo, Freud, Maslow,
are only some of the more prominent names in the field of Organizational behavior. The development
of Organizational behavior has not stopped, however, and the process is still ongoing.

If the organization is expected to survive, its actions must be in consonance with ethical behavior.

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