Unit I – Introduction to Organizational Behavior
Topics Covered in this Unit:
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1. Definition of Organizational Behavior - Slide
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2. What Managers Do? (Functions of Management, Henry Mintzberg’s 10 Managerial Roles, Katz’s Essential Management Skills) – Slides
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3. Contributing Disciplines to the field of OB - Notes
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4. Challenges and Opportunities for OB - Notes
Supplementary Material
Contributing Disciplines to the Field of OB
Organizational behavior is an applied behavioral science that is built on contributions from a number of behavioral disciplines. The predominant areas are psychology and social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Psychology’s contributions have been mainly at the individual or micro level of analysis, while other disciplines have contributed to our understanding of macro concepts such as group processes and organization.
Psychology:
It is the science that seeks to measure, explain and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals. Psychologists concern themselves with studying and attempting to understand individual behavior. Those who have contributed and continue to add to the knowledge of OB are learning theorists, personality theorists, counseling psychologists, and most important, industrial and organizational psychologists.
Early industrial/organizational psychologists concerned themselves with the problems of fatigue, boredom, and other factors relevant to working conditions that could impede efficient work performance. More recently, their contributions have been expanded to include learning, perception, personality, emotions, training, leadership effectiveness, needs and motivational forces, job satisfaction,