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Lecture 5: Organizational Behavior
and Management thinking
Objectives
• To Define Organizational behavior (OB) and
Management thinking (MTh)
• To understand to relation between them
• To understand how both influence leadership,
communication and problem solving
“any act, or failure to act, which results in harm to a patient, others refer
to medical error as any action within the process of care that may have
the potential to cause harm.”
Annals of Internal Medicine suggests as many as 17 separate individual errors may
occur before a patient is actually harmed.
Commitment, learning,
decision making, power,
Organization-wide conflict
behavior
Communication, teamwork,
Group behavior satisfaction
Expectancy theory:
Focuses on how workers make choices among alternative
behaviors and level of efforts, how they decide which specific
behaviors to perform and how much effort to exert.