The Rigour of OB

 OB looks at consistencies .
 What is common about behaviour, and
helps ,predictability.
 OB is more than common sense .
Systematic study, based on scientific evidence
OB has few absolutes .
 OB takes a contingency approach .
Considers behaviour in context.
Beyond Common Sense
Systematic Study Science is the systematic study
(observation & experiments) of the natural
world.
• Looking at relationships, attempting to
attribute causes and drawing, conclusions
based on scientific evidence scientific evidence
 Behaviour is generally predictable
There are differences between individuals .
 There are fundamental consistencies .
 There are rules (written & unwritten)
 Exhibit 1 Challenges Facing the Workplace Workplace
Workplace
• Organizational Level
 Productivity
 Developing Effective Employees
 Global Competition
 Managing in the Global Village
Group Level
 Working With Others
 Workforce Diversity
Individual Level
 • Job Satisfaction
 • Empowerment
 • Behaving Ethically
Competing Values Framework

Internal-External Dimension
 Inwardly toward employee needs and concerns and/or production
processes an/ and internal systems .
 . Outwardly, toward such factors as the marketplace, government
regulations, and Outwardly, toward such factors as the marketplace,
government regulations, and the changing social, environmental,
and technological conditions of the future the changing social,
environmental, and technological conditions of the future

Flexibility-Control Dimension
 Flexible and dynamic,
 allowing more teamwork and participation;
 seeking new opportunities for products
 Controlling or stable, maintaining .
 Importance of Organizational Behavior

Understand Organization and Employee

Improved Communication
Motivate Employee
Prediction and Control of Human Behavior
Teamwork
Managing Diversity and Inclusion
Conflict Resolution
Leadership Development
The scope of organizational behaviour:
The scope of OB is as under:
• People, structure, technology and the external environment
are the key elements of the organizational behavior. First
three elements are micro-level and last one is macro level.
These elements can be undertaken as a part of the OB scope.
Impact of personality on performance
It’s also essential to understand the impact of personality of an
employee or other members of the team on performance.
The motivation of employees of organization:
The study helps to understand employee behavior. This helps to
understand what kind of Monetary & Non-Monetory benefits
will help to motivate employees and to create a positive
attitude.
• Other important points under the scope of OB are:
 Leadership
 Structure of teams and groups
 Perception
Development of the Soft Skills
 Organizational structures: Their Study and Development
Group behavior, power and politics, attitude and learning
 Organization Design
 Job design
 Culture and Environment factors
 Management of change, conflict and stress
 Organizational development
 Study of emotions
 Overview
 OB is a field of study that investigates the impact of OB is a field
of study that investigates the impact of individuals, groups, and
structure on behaviour within an individuals, groups, and
structure on behaviour within an organization. organization.
 OB focuses on improving productivity, by understanding OB
focuses on improving productivity, by understanding employees
 Behavior of organizations, groups, & individuals can be Behavior
of organizations, groups, & individuals can be predicted, but you
have to understand the circumstances. predicted, but you have to
understand the circumstances. 
 To study OB, one needs to move from an intuition and To study
OB, one needs to move from an intuition and common sense
approach to a systematic study. common sense approach to a
systematic study.
 OB uses systematic study to improve predictions of OB uses
systematic study to improve predictions of behaviour