ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
“Organizational Behavior is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on behaviour within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness.” (Robbins, Judge, Sanghi 2009, 13th edition, Prentice Hall) .

From the above statement we can say that, organization behavior shows how people behave in an organization and how their behavior affects the working of the organization.

To understand organizational behavior we first need to know what an organization is.

According to Robbins (2006), an organization is a consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or a set of goals.

Now we can clearly state that organization behavior is a distinct area of expertise which studies - individuals, groups and structure. It puts in these studies gained, in order to make organizations work more effectively and efficiently.
Organizational Behavior is the study and application of knowledge about how people, individuals, and groups act in organizations. It does this by taking a system approach. That is, it interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and whole social system. Its purpose is to build better relationships by achieving human objectives, organizational objectives, and social objectives. (http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadob.htm).
To conclude, organizational behavior deals with the study of people in an organization, and how every individuals and every group’s behaviour affects the organization as a whole.

MOTIVATION

According to Bratton (2007), “The word ‘motivation’ comes from the Latin word mover, ‘to move’, and organizational