Introduction to Organizational Behaviour

An organization is defined as a group of people that work interdependently to achieve common goals. Organizational Behaviour is a field of study that investigates the impact of individuals, groups, and structures on behaviours within organizations.

Levels of Analysis

• Micro/Individual

• Meso/Group

• Macro/Organizational

Human beings are complex, and generalizations cannot be made, so decisions and circumstances depend on the particular situations. This is the contingency approach.

Evidence-based management is about making the best decision through the use of evidence from multiple sources with the goal of getting and supporting favourable results.

Substitutes for Evidence

• Obsolete knowledge: Pat and general knowledge

• Personal experience

• Specialist skills

• Hype

• Dogma: Workplace fascism

• Mindless mimicry of top performance

Steps of EBM

• Asking

• Acquiring

• Appraising

• Aggregating

• Applying

• Assessing

Focus Questions: PICOC Framework

• Population

• Intervention

• Comparison

• Outcomes

• Context

Not all conditions of PICOC have to be noted. The most important are Population, Intervention, and Outcome.

Sources of Evidence

• Practitioners (Professional Expertise)

• Scientific Literature

• Organization (Internal Data)

• Stakeholders