Laguna State Polytechnic University

San Pablo City Campus

Brgy. Del Remedio San Pablo City

Graduate Studies and Applied Research

COGNATE 208: HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATION

NAME: Ma. Glaiza P. Asia

DESIGNATION: Teacher I
SCHOOL: Ibabang Yuni Elementary School
ADDRESS: Brgy. Ibabang Yuni Mulanay, Quezon
CONTACT NO. 0912-6727-779
PROFESSOR: DAISY L. ARANGUREN, Ed. D.

Topic:

 Reasons for Studying Human Behavior in Organization

 Why Study Organizational Behavior?
 Importance of Human Behavior

Reason for Studying Human Behavior

It is very important to study organizational behavior because it provides

an understanding of why people behave as they do in organizations. In any
organization, importance of organizational behavior has tremendous
necessities. Organizational Behavior helps us to study the complex nature of
human beings in organizations by identifying causes and effects of that
behavior.

Why Study Organizational Behavior?

To Influence To Understand
Behavior Behavior

Why Study
Organizational
Behavior?

To Predict
Behavior
To Influence Behavior

Managers and leader play an important role in influencing employees’

behavior in a workplace.

Employers influencing the employee’s behavior by making decision to

ensure that the conclusion and relation of the people in the organization is
conducive and well preserved.

To Understand Behavior

Help to understand human aspect for worker.

Employers understanding their employees to ensure the tasks given can

be solve successfully with maximum satisfaction.

To Predict Behavior

Help to systematically learn and predict others behavior to avoid

unwanted problem.

The employers predict the behavior of their employees before giving the
tasks that could match with the employee’s abilities.

Importance of Organizational Behavior

1. Organizational Behavior helps in understanding Organization and

Employees in a better way:

Studying Organizational Behavior helps to understand organization and people

in a better way. When we can understand organization and employees, it helps
to develop friendly relationship between organization and employees creating
a proper working environment in an organization.

Similarly, studying Organizational Behavior topics helps to find out the factor
causing the behavior, and helps to apply different strategies to control the
critical behavior which harms the organization.
2. OB helps in motivating employees:

Importance of Organizational behavior cannot be neglected because studying

Organizational Behavior helps managers to motivate the employees bringing a
good organizational performance. As every individual differs from each other,
therefore Organizational Behavior helps managers to apply appropriate
motivational tools and techniques in accordance with the nature of individual
employees. This helps achieving organizational goal properly.

3. Organizational Behavior helps in improving Industrial / Labor relations:

Studying Organizational Behavior helps to improve industrial/labor relations.

Organizational Behavior Management helps in understanding the root-cause of
the problem, predict its future course of action and control its negative
consequences. As, managers are aware about the positive and negative
consequences of the behavior, it enables managers to maintain friendly
relations with their employees which creates peace and harmony in the
organization.

4. Organizational Behavior helps in predicting and controlling Human

Behavior:

Studying Organizational Behavior helps to predict and control human behavior.

It is the one of the most important reason for studying Organizational Behavior.
Knowledge of Organizational Behavior is very much important for the
management students who are going to have a career as a successful manager.
If all the Organizational Behavior theories is studied properly then it helps to
bring organizational effectiveness.

5. Organizational Behavior helps in effective utilization of Human

Resources

Studying Organizational Behavior helps in effective utilization of Human

Resources. Knowledge of Organizational Behavior helps managers to manage
people effectively in the organization. Likewise, it enables managers to inspire
and motivate employees toward higher productivity and better results as the
manager can analyze and understand nature and behavior of his employees.