Organizational behavior

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essentials of organizational behavior

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wilson fitzgerald

planning

defining an organizations goals, establishing an overall strategy for achieving those goals and developing a plan to coordinate activities

organizing

managers design their work unit’s structurelea

leading

direct and coordinate people

controlling

management must monitor an organizations performance

interpersonal roles

all managers must perform roles that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature

informational roles

to some degree, all managers collect info from outside organizations and institutions

decisional roles

entrepreneurs, resource allocator

organizational behavior

field of studey investigating the impact of individuals, groups and structure on behavior within organizations to improve organization effectiveness.

three categories that impact behavior

individuals, groups and structures

systemic study

looking at relationships, attempting to attribute causes and effects, drawing conclusions based on scientific evidence

evidence-based management

basing managerial decisions on the best available scientific evidence

intuition

an instinctive feeling not supported by research, drawback of using is that common sense can lead to erroneous predictions.

psychology

science that seeks to measure change in behavior of humans

social psychology

an area of psychology that blends psych and sociology

sociology

study of people in relation to their social environment

anthropology

study of societies to learn about human beings and their activities

contingency variables

situational factors or variables that moderate the relationship between 2 or more variables

positive organizational scholarship

area of OB research that studies how organizations develop human strength

processes

actions that individuals, groups and organizations engage in as a result of inputs

organizational survival

degree to which an organization is able to exist and grow over the long term

steps of the organizational behavior model

individual, group and organizational