Technical Report Writing

On
Fundamental concept of Organization Behavior

Submitted by
Name : Arpan Debnath
Department: ECE
Semester: 8th
Roll Number:16900319114

Department of ECE
ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY
AEDCONAGAR, HOOGHLY-712121
WESTBENGAL,INDIA
Abstract

Organizational behavior is the academic study of how people interact within groups and its
principles are applied primarily in attempts to make businesses operate more effectively.The
study of organizational behavior includes areas of research dedicated to improving job
performance, increasing job satisfaction, promoting innovation, and encouraging leadership
and is a foundation of corporate human resources.

Introduction
The study of organizational behavior includes areas of research dedicated to improving job
performance, increasing job satisfaction, promoting innovation, and encouraging leadership.
Each has its own recommended actions, such as reorganizing groups, modifying
compensation structures, or changing methods of performance evaluation.
Organizational behavior theories inform the real-world evaluation and management of
groups of people. There are several components:

 Personality plays a large role in the way a person interacts with groups and produces
work. Understanding a candidate's personality, either through tests or through
conversation, helps determine whether they are a good fit for an organization.
 Leadership—what it looks like and where it comes from—is a rich topic of debate
and study within the field of organizational behavior. Leadership can be broad,
focused, centralized or de-centralized, decision-oriented, intrinsic in a person’s
personality, or simply a result of a position of authority.
 Power, authority, and politics all operate inter-dependently in a workplace.
Understanding the appropriate ways these elements are exhibited and used, as agreed
upon by workplace rules and ethical guidelines, are key components to running a
cohesive business.

Procedure and Discussion

Organizational behavior is based on a few fundamental concepts which are relevant to the
nature of people and organisations.

There are some basic assumptions in organizational behavior such as:

 Difference between individuals: Individual differences idea comes from psychology.

Every person is different from the day of birth, every person is unique and personal
experiences make a person more different than the other.

 A whole person: A whole person indicates that when an individual is appointed in an

organisation, he/she is not hired only on the basis of skills, but also on likes and
dislikes, pride and prejudices.

 Behavior or an individual is caused: Caused behavior indicates that when an

individual behaves in an unmannerly fashion then there is a cause behind it.
  An individual has dignity : Human dignity indicates that every individual needs to be
treated differently. It shows human dignity because people at every level of
professional ladder want to be treated with respect and dignity.

 Organisations are social systems:Organisations are social systems indicates that

from sociology we know that organisations are social systems; therefore the activities
within the organisations are governed by social and psychological laws.

 Mutuality of interest among organisational members: Mutuality of interest indicates

that both the organisation and people need each other. Organisations are formed
and maintained on the basis of some mutuality of interest among the participants.

 Holistic organizational behavior: Holistic concept indicates that when all the above
six concepts of organisational behavior are placed together a holistic concept arises.

There are many factors that affect an individual, a group and an organisation. For example
factors individual factors like

 Personality
 Perception
 Learning
 Attitude
 Job satisfaction
 Motivation
 Group factors like leadership, power and politics, communication and conflicts.
 Organisation factors like human resource policies and practices, work stress, change
and development.
There are three key concepts about the nature of the organization. They are

1. Social system : Organizations are social system. People have psychological needs;
they also have social roles and status. Their behaviour is influenced by their groups
as well as by their individual drives.
2. Mutual system: Organizations need people and people need organizations.
Organizations have a human purpose. They are formed and maintained on the basic
of some mutuality of interest among their participant’s managers need employees
to help them reach organizational objectives.
3. Ethics: In order to attract and retain valuable or experienced employees ethical
treatment is necessary. This is very important that organization must ensure a
higher standard of ethical performance by managers and employees.

Conclusion
As a multi-disciplinary science, organizational behavior has been influenced by
developments in a number of related disciplines,including sociology, industrial/organizational
psychology, and economics. Organizational behavior deals with employee attitudes and
feelings, including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job
involvement and emotional labor.
The study of Organizational Behavior (OB) is very interesting and challenging too. It is
related to individuals, group of people working together in teams. The study becomes more
challenging when situational factors interact. The study of organizational behavior relates to
the expected behavior of an individual in the organization.

References
1. Organizational Behaviour Dr S.S.Khanka, S.Chand, 2014.
2. Organisational Behaviour. Arun Kumar and N.Meenaskshi .Vikas Publishing House, 2009.
3. Managing Organisational Behaviour, Moorhead & Griffin. CENGAGE Learning, 2014.