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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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High-performing companies align people management practices to the corporate culture (“cultural fit”) and to the business strategy and long-term objectives of the organization (“strategic fit”).
This tight coupling of internal practices, culture and strategy remains unique for each organization and is difficult for competitors to imitate.
While rivals can poach a few employees or can try to mimic some strategic moves, rarely will they be able to penetrate the lattice of internal fit, cultural fit and strategic fit.
Meaning of OB
Organizational behavior is a misnomer.
It is not the study of how organizations behave, but rather the study of individual behavior in an organizational setting.
This includes the study of how individuals behave alone, as well as how individuals behave in groups.
Organizational Behavior
Definitions
Actions and attitudes of individuals and groups toward one another and toward the organization as a whole, and its effect on the organization's functioning and performance.
"Organizational behaviour is the study and application at knowledge about the how people - as individuals and a groups - act within organization. It strives to identify ways in which people can act more effectively.“ - Keith Davis
Organizational Culture
OC characterizes the work environment of an organization.
It is made up of values, beliefs, underlying exemptions, attitudes and behaviors shared by a group of people
Culture is the behavior that results when a group arrives at a set of – generally unspoken and unwritten – rules for working together
Powerful element that shapes your work enjoyment, your work relationships and your work processes
Purpose of OB
Help understand herself/himself and others better.
Gain a greater understanding of those factors that influence individual and group dynamics in an organizational setting so that they and organizations to which they belong may become more efficient and effective.
Includes the analysis of organizational factors that may have an influence upon individual and group behavior.
OB helps manager understand the basis of motivation
Levels of Analysis
INDIVIDUAL LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
At the individual level of analysis, organizational behavior involves the study of learning, perception, creativity, motivation, personality, turnover, task performance, cooperative behavior, deviant behavior, ethics, and cognition.
OB draws heavily upon psychology, engineering, and medicine.
GROUP LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
At the group level of analysis, organizational behavior involves the study of group dynamics, intra- and intergroup conflict and cohesion, leadership, power, norms, interpersonal communication, networks, and roles.
OB draws upon the sociological and socio-psychological sciences.
Bureaucratic organizations.
Structure of the organization is a continuous hierarchy where each level is subject to control by the level above it.
Responsibilities within each level are clearly delineated and each level has its own sphere of competence.
Weber believed that, due to their efficiency and stability, bureaucracies would become the most prevalent form of organization in society.
Concerned that bureaucracies shared so many common structures it could mean that all organizations would become very much alike, which in turn could lead to the development of a new class of worker, the professional bureaucrat. He was so right …