YELLOW IS FOR DEFINATION

GREEN IS FOR INFORMATIONAL

LIGHT BLUE IS FOR NEW FACTS

ORANGE IS FOR DETAILS EXPLATION

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
CHAPTER 1:

Interpersonal

Figurehead Symbolic head; required to perform a number of routine duties of a legal or

social nature (CEO)

Leader Responsible for the motivation and direction of employees (manager)

Liaison Maintains a network of outside contacts who provide favors and information
(pr department)

** There are 3 management skills.

1.Technical skills the ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise. (Small level management)

2.Human skills the ability to work with, understand, and motivate other people, both individually and in
groups. (mid-level management)

3. Conceptual skills the mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations. (Top management)

i. organizational behavior (OB) A field of study that investigates the impact individuals,
groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of
applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness.
ii. Luthans and his associates studied more than 450 managers. All engaged in four
managerial activities:
1. Traditional management. Decision making, planning, and controlling.
2. Communication. Exchanging routine information and processing paperwork.
3. Human resource management. Motivating, disciplining, managing conflict, staffing,
and training.
4. Networking. Socializing, politicking, and interacting with outsiders.
iii. The “average” manager spent 32 percent of his or her time in traditional management
activities, 29 percent communicating, 20 percent in human resource management
activities, and 19 percent networking.
iv. To sum up our definition, OB is the study of what people do in an organization and the
way their behavior affects the organization’s performance. Because OB is concerned
specifically with employment-related situations, it examines behavior in the context
of job satisfaction, absenteeism, employment turnover, productivity, human
 performance, and management. Although debate exists about the relative
importance of each, OB includes these core topics:
• Motivation
• Leader behavior and power
• Interpersonal communication
• Group structure and processes
• Attitude development and perception
• Change processes
• Conflict and negotiation
• Work design1

Disciplines That Contribute to the OB Field

OB is an applied behavioral science built on contributions from a number of behavioral disciplines,

mainly psychology and social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Psychology’s contributions have
been principally at the individual or micro level of analysis, while the other disciplines have contributed
to our understanding of macro concepts such as group processes and organization. Exhibit 1-3 is an
overview of the major contributions to the study of organizational behavior.

Psychology: psychology the science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the
behavior of humans and other animals.

social Psychology: social psychology an area of psychology that blends concepts from psychology and
sociology to focus on the influence of people on one another.

Sociology: sociology the study of people in relation to their social environment or culture.
Anthropology: Anthropology the study of societies to learn about human beings and their activities.
Workforce diversity

workforce diversity the concept that organizations are becoming more heterogeneous in terms of
gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other characteristics.

Heterogeneous: consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents: mixed an ethnically

heterogeneous population.

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