VNUK - Lecture 1

Organizational
Behavior
 BUSINESS SCHOOL
CURRICULA 1980’S
• Technical aspects of management
• Economics
• Accounting
• Financing
• Qualitative techniques
 a coordinated social group of
An more than two persons
Organization… working together towards a
common goal / goals.

Behavior
the way one acts especially
towards others.
Aggressive: to
attack or confront
others
Assertive: to be
confident and strong
Passive: allow others
to direct
Passive Aggressive:
indirect resistance
 Why is it important?

❖ impacts productivity
❖ impacts effectiveness
❖ impacts perception
❖ impacts profitability
 DEFINITION
A set of tools that allow us to evaluate the impact
individuals, groups and structures have on behavior
in an organization.
 Climate
Groups
Organizational
Behavior

Culture
Anchors of OB
 Multidisciplinary Anchor

Sociology
❖ OB is developed both Psychology
through its own research but Anthropology
also by evaluation other Communications
disciplines
Marketing
Information Systems
 Systematic Research Anchor

❖ Forming research questions

❖ Collecting data
❖ Evaluating Evidence Based
❖ Creating and testing
Management
hypothesis
 Contingency Anchor

❖ Any single action may have

different consequences or
results
❖ There is not a one solution
for all
Multiple Levels Of Analysis

Organization

Group

Individual
 Individual

❖ Individual characteristics and

their processes attributed to:
❖ Attitude and Job Satisfaction
❖ Diversity and Personality
❖ Emotion and Moods Foundation of group
behavior
❖ Perception and Decision
Making
❖ Motivation
❖ Values
 Group

❖ Group interactions and

behaviors including:
• Team dynamics,
communication, power,
leadership, conflict
• Organizational power and
politics
 Organization

❖ Organizational, how do
people interact in their work
relationships and how do
organizations interact with
their environment
 Apply OB principles and theories to
enhance your

1. own awareness
2. knowledge
3. skills
4. proficiency to work well in a group
5. work well as an individual in an
organization
 References
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riskiest-country-business/

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❖ [4] https://www.slideshare.net/gauravanirbandutta/organisational-behaviour-
stephen-robbins-chapter-1-35339265

❖ [5] http://www.pptbackgrounds.org/people-abstract-backgrounds.html
 References
❖ [6] https://relivingmbadays.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/anchors-of-organizational-
behavior-knowledge/

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behavior

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prestashop

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