Organization Behavior

Manish Awasthi
Definitions:
 Managers: Individuals who achieve goals
through other people.
 Organization: A consciously coordinated
social unit, composed of two or more people,
that functions on a relatively continuous basis
to achieve a common goal or set of goals.
Management Functions
 Planning: Includes defining goals,
establishing strategies and developing plans
to coordinate activities.
 Organizing: Determining what tasks are to be
done, who will do them, how the tasks are to
be grouped, who reports whom and where
decisions are to be made.
 Leading: Includes motivating subordinates,
selecting the most effective communication
channel and resolving conflicts.
Management Roles(Mintzberg)
 Interpersonal Roles- Figurehead Role,
Leadership Role and Liaison Role.
 Informational Roles-
 Monitor Role- Receive & Collect information
 Disseminator Role- Conduit to transmit information.
 Spokesperson Role.
 Decisional Roles:
 A) Entrepreneur Roles
 B) Disturbance Handlers
 C) Resource Allocators
 D) Negotiator Role
Management Skills
 Technical Skills- Ability to apply specialized
knowledge or expertise.
 Human Skills- Ability to work, understand and
motivate other people.
 Conceptual Skills- Mental ability to analyze
and diagnose complex situations.
Defining O B
A field of study that investigates the impact
that individuals, groups and structure have on
behavior within the organizations, for the
purpose of applying such knowledge towards
improving an organizations effectiveness.
 O B is concerned with the study of what
people do in an organization and how that
behavior affects the performance of the
organization.
Values:

 Definition:

Basic convictions that a specific

mode of conduct or end state of existence is
personally or socially preferable to an
opposite or converse mode of conduct or end
state of existence.
Importance of Values in O B:
 Itlays the foundation for the foundation for
the understanding of attitudes and motivation
and because they influence our perception.
 Values are generally influenced by Parents,
teachers, friends and others.
Types of Values:
 Theoretical Values: high importance on
discovery of truths through a critical and
rationale approach.
 Economic: Emphasizes the useful & practical.

 Aesthetic: Places the highest value on form

and harmony.
 Social- assigns the highest values to the love
of people.
Contd…
 Political:
Places emphasizes on acquisition of
power and influence.
 Religious: is concerned with the unity of
experience and understanding of the cosmos
as a whole.

 SEPTAR.