What do you meant by organizational behavior?

According  to Keith Davis – Organizational is the study and application of knowledge about human behavior in organizations as it relates to other system element, such as structure, technology and the external social system.
According to Fred Luthans - Organizational behavior is directly concerned with the understanding, perdition and control human behavior In organizations.


According to Martin J. Gannon – The field of organizational behavior focuses on the micro aspects of organizations such as motivation, Jo satisfaction and Leadership.

According to – Organizational behavior may be defined as the systematic study of the nature of organizations – how they begin, grow, and develop, and the affect on individual members, constituent groups, other organizations, and larger institutions.

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Nature of organizational behavior

• Oriented toward organizational objectives
• Field of study
• Performance oriented
• Normative and value centered
• Nature of thinking
• Branch of inter discipline
• Humanitive and optimistic
• Total system approach

Element of organizational behavior

• Human resource
• Environment
• Organization structure
• Technology

Objective goals of organizational behavior

• Proper management
• To increase morale
• To increase behavior
• To predict the future outcomes
• To remove conflict
• To control
• To create good labor management relations

Importance of organization behavior

• Organizational development
• Acquiring knowledge
• To create and establish relationship
• To grow and develop in status and impact
• Obtaining co-operation
• Development of life-style
• Control o values
• Attainment of objectives
• Development of social systems
• Facing external environment

Fundamental philosophical concepts of organization behavior

1. The nature of peoples

• Individual differences
• A whole person concept
• Value of person
• Desire for involvement
• Motivated behavior

2. The nature of organization

• Social systems
• Mutual interest
• Rationality
• Goal of organization
• Ethics

Approaches to organizational behavior

• Human resource approaches
• An interdisciplinary approach
• A contingency approaches
• A system approach
• Result oriented approach

Organizational behavior with other subjects relation

• Organizational behaviors & personnel management
• Organizational behavior & social psychology
• Organizational behavior & psychology
• Organizational behavior & sociology
• Organizational behavior & Anthropology
• Organizational behavior & political science

What is meant by management organization

According to Terry and Franklin, “Organizing is the establishing of effective behavior relationships among persons so that they may work together efficiently and gain personal satisfaction in doing selected tasks under given environmental conditions for the purpose of achieving some goal or objective”

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According to R. W. Griffin, “Organizing is deciding how best to group, organizational activities and resources.”

According to Prof. Which and Koontz, “Organizing is (1) the identification and classification of required activities, (2) the grouping of activities necessary to attain the objective, (3) the assignment of each grouping to a manager with the authority necessary to supervise it and (4) the provision for co-ordination horizontally and vertically in the organization structure.”

Importance of management organization

The management organization process is organizing, planning, leading, directing and controlling entity with the achieving organizational goals. The organization management activities, internal and external decision make to be able effective and beneficial. The following are the importance of management organization.

• To help with administrative activities
• Aid to accomplishment of objective
• Effective utilization of resources
• To help with division of labor
• Uses of modern technology and strategy
• Development of co- operation
• Smooth co- ordination
• Establishing leadership
• An aid to control
• Development of creativity
• Achieving flexibility

Principle of management organization

The principle means the organizational function of implementation of guidance for action. Management principles apply needs to profit and non-profit concerned with the organization. The following are the principle of management organization.

• Principle of goals
• Principle of efficiency
• Principle of division of labor
• Principle of balance between responsibility and authority
• Principle of determining the optimum span of supervisor
• Principle of scalar- chain
• Principle of defining specific responsibility
• Principle of conformity between authority and responsibility
• Principle of balance
• Principle of flexibility
• Principle of specialization
• Principle of order and discipline
• Principle of leadership

Introduction to organizational theory

According to Shaw and Costanzo – A theory permits us to handle large amounts of empirical data with relatively few propositions.

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According to Joe Kelly – An organizational theory is not a theory in the narrow physical science sense but rather represents theory on  the grand scale which suggests a perspective for looking a organizations.

Characteristics of Classical theory

• Division of labor
• Annual process
• Organizational structure
• Formality
• Centralization
• Permanent
• Rationalistic legislative
• Machine and its components
• Formal relationship
• Control

Assumption of Classical Theory

• Centralization
• Machine and its equipment
• Concept about men
• Basic flow
• Division of labor
• Logical manager
• Permanent frame
• Universal
• Formalities

Limitations of Classical theory

• Inexistence in assumptions
• Centralization authority
• Limitations of applying
• Bureaucratic behavior
• Neglect human factors
• Lack of co-ordination
• Decrease of creativity
• Human consider as a machine