Organization behavior

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Organization behavior

Definition- It is to understand, predicting and

controlling human behavior at work.

It is a field of study that investigates the impact

that individuals, groups and structure have on
behavior in organization for the purpose of
applying such knowledge towards improving an
organization’s effectiveness.
 It
is very interesting and
challenging too.
 Since two people have two
different psychology hence mindset
 It
emphasis on expected behavior
in an organization of employees
 Two people behave differently
Nature of organizational behavior

 Integral part of management

 Field of study
 Inter disciplinary approach
 Analysis of behavior
 Goal oriented
 Human tool
 Science and art
 Fulfillment of employees need
personality

 Meaning derived from Latin word personare that means

to speak through
 It means how people affect others and how they
understand and view themselves as well as their pattern
of inner and outer measurable traits and the person-
situation interaction.
 Influencing others through external appearance
 Definition- those inner psychological characteristics that
both determine and reflect how a person responds to his
or her envt.
Determinants of personality

 1. biological factors
 A. heredity
 B. brain
 C. physical features
 2. cultural factors
 3. family and social factors
 A. home envt
 B. family members
 c. Social group
 4. situational factors
5. Other factors
A. Temperament
B. Interest
C. Character
D. Schema
E. motives
perception

 It is a process by which an individual select, organize

and interpreted their sensory impressions, so as to give
meaning to their envt.
 It differs from person to person
 Perception includes all those processes by which an
individual receives information about his environment-
seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling.
Importance of perception

Facilitatesunderstanding of
human behavior
Helps in behavior predictions
Determination of needs
Effective subordinate dealing
 Characteristics of the
situation
Characteristics of the perceiver
1. Needs and motives
perception
2. Self concept
3. Past experience
4. Beliefs
5. Expectations Characteristics of the target
6. Current psychological state or perceived
Size
Intensity
Frequency
Status
contrast