OB Chap001- Intro to OB

8/8/2019 OB Chap001- Intro to OB

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Introduction to OrganizationalBehavior


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Provide an overview of the major challenges and the paradigm

shift facing management now and in the next economy.

Outline an organizational behavior perspective for todays

management.

Summarize the Hawthorne studies as the starting point of modern

organizational behavior.

Explain the methodology that is used to accumulate knowledge

and facilitate understanding of organizational behavior.

Relate the various theoretical frameworks that serve as a

foundation for a model of organizational behavior.

Present the social cognitive model of organizational behavior that

serves as the conceptual framework for the text.


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Sumerians- Record Keeping

Egyptians- Need for Planning and

Control

Moses- Shared Leadership, Delegation

Hamurabi- First ______?

Alexander the Great- Use of Staff

Niccolo Machivelli- The ends _____ the______.


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Groups of people who work

interdependently toward some purpose

Structured patterns of interaction Coordinated tasks

Work toward some purpose


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The study of individual behavior and

group dynamics in organizations

Understand

Predict

Manage


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(Continued)


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Group Level

Individual

Level

Organizational Levele.g., Selection Systems

e.g., Groupthink

e.g., Personality


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Cognitive Framework Personality

Satisfaction,Commitment and Absenteeism Model

Attraction- Selection-Attrition Model

Behavioristic Framework Pavlovs Dogs

EnvironmentalContingencies

Social Cognitive Framework Allows for more complexities

More accepted framework


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What is Organizational Behavior

Characteristics of Organizational

BehaviorWhy study Organizational Behavior

The Human Equation

Challenges in Managing

The New ParadigmHawthorne Studies and Research in O.B.


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ContingencyContingencyVariablesVariablesx y


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Outputs:

Pr cts

ervices

Inputs:

Material

a ital

H a

Task environment:

etit rsU i s

Reg lat ry age cies

lie ts

Structure

Task Technology

People

(Actors)

Orga izati al B ary


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The Human Equation


The New ParadigmHawthorne Studies and Research in O.B.


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Competitive advantage of an

organization today is represented by: Human resource of an organization and how they

are managed.

Widely recognized as human capital, social

capital and positive psychological capital.


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The academic field of organizational

behavior has been around for at least thepast thirty years.

Problems facing managers of human

organization have been around since thebeginning of civilization.


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A paradigm simply establishes the rules(written or unwritten), defines the boundaries, andtells one how to behave within the boundaries to

be successful.For todays and tomorrows organizations and

management, there are new rules with differentboundaries requiring new and different behaviors.

There is considerable resistance to change andwhy it is very difficult to move from the oldmanagement paradigm to the new.


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Management has three major dimensionstechnical, conceptual, and human.

One-eighth situationabout one-eighth of

todays organizations believe it, do it, stick with it.

The Knowing-Doing Gapmost managersknow the value of the human factor and how toimplement the approach to improve organizational

performance, but still are not doing it.


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The Human Equation


The New ParadigmHawthorne Studies and Research in

O.B.


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Formal Organization - the official,

legitimate, and most visible part of the

systemInformal Organization - the unofficial

and less visible part of the system

Hawthor e St dies: st dies co d cted d ri g the

1920s a d 1930s that discovered the existe ce of

the i formal orga izatio


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The Illumination Studies: A Serendipitous

Discovery

SubsequentP

hases of the HawthorneStudies

Implications of the Hawthorne Studies

THE HAWTHORNE EFFECT


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What is a paradigm?

What are some areas than have

influenced the study of Org Behavior?What are some concepts studied in Org

Behavior?

Why should a manager know about this

domain of knowledge?Contrast formal versus informal

organization


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What happened in the Hawthorne

Studies?

Why are they so important and what did

we learn from them?

Describe 3 challenges facing managers

today; why are they considered

challenges?Describe the 1/8th rule or the Knowing-

Doing Gap

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