INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

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Organization: groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose

Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of what people think, feel, and do in and
around organizations.
Why study organizational behavior?
There are three reasons why:
+ Comprehend (understand) and Predict Workplace Events
+ Influence Organizational Events
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Organizational behavior trends
• Globalization: refers to economic, social and cultural connectivity with people in
the other parts of the world.
Globalization offers numerous benefits to organizations in terms of larger markets,
lower costs, and greater access to knowledge an innovation. Considerable debate
about whather globalization benefits develoving nations and the extent to which it is
responsible for increasing intensification, reduced job security, and poor work-life
balance in developed countries.
• Workforce diversity:
+ Surface-level diversity: the observable demographic or physiological differences in
people, such as their race, ethnicity, gender, age, and physical disabilities.
+ Deep-level diversity: differences in the psychological characteristics of employees,
including personalities, belief, values, and atitutdes.
 Workforce diversity offers numerous advantage to ogranizational. Team with
high in4 diversity- members have different knowledge and skills- tend to be more
creative and make better decisions in complex situations compared to teams with
less information diversity.
• Virtual work
• Evolving Employment relationships
• Workplace values and ethics