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Chapter 01
Chapter 01
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What are Organizations?
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Why Study Organizational Behavior
Understand
organizational
events
Why study
organizational
Influence behavior Predict
organizational organizational
events events
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Trends: Globalization
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Trends: Changing Workforce
– Primary categories
• gender, age, ethnicity,
etc.
– Secondary categories
• some control over (e.g.
education, marital
status)
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Trends: Changing Workforce
• Current trends
– Increased racial and ethnic diversity
– More women in workforce
– Generational diversity
– New age cohorts (e.g. Gen-X, Gen-Y)
• Implications
– Leverage diversity advantage
– Adjust to the new workforce
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Trends: Employment Relationships
• Work-life balance
– Number one indicator of career success
– Priority for many young people looking for new jobs
• Employability
– “New deal” employment relationship
– Continuously learn new skills
• Contingent work
– No explicit or implicit contract for long-term
employment, or minimum hours of work can vary in
a nonsystematic way
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Trends: Virtual Work
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Values-based Leadership in Dubai
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Trends: Values/Ethics Defined
Ethics
Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai
– Study of moral principles or
values that determine whether
actions are right or wrong and
outcomes are good or bad
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Trends: Why Values are Important
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Corporate Social Responsibility
• Stakeholders
– Shareholders, customers, suppliers, governments etc.
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Organizational Behavior Anchors
Multidisciplinary
Anchor
Systematic
Open Systems Organizational Research
Anchor Anchor
Behavior
Anchors
Multiple Levels
Contingency
of Analysis
Anchor
Anchor
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Organizational Behavior Anchors
• Multidisciplinary anchor
– Many OB concepts adopted from other disciplines
– OB develops its own models and theories, but also needs
to scan other fields for ideas
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Organizational Behavior Anchors (con’t)
• Contingency anchor
– A particular action may have different consequences in
different situations
– Need to diagnose the situation and select best strategy
under those conditions
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Open Systems Anchor
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Open Systems Anchor
Environment
Feedback Feedback
Feedback Feedback
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Knowledge Management Defined
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Intellectual Capital
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Knowledge Management Processes
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Organizational Memory
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Chapter One
Extras
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Job Security vs. Employability
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