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

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