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What IsWhat IsOrganizationalOrganizational
Behavior?Behavior?
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What is Organizational What is Organizational Behavior?Behavior?
• A field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations
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Does OB Matter?Does OB Matter?
• Do firms who do a good job managing OB concepts become more profitable as a result?
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Does OB Does OB Matter?Matter?
• The resource-based view of the firm
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Does OB Matter?Does OB Matter?
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Does OB Matter?Does OB Matter?
Retention
Sales/employee
Market value
Profitability
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How Do We Know Things About How Do We Know Things About OB?OB?
• Where does the knowledge in this textbook come from?
• Understanding that requires an understanding of how we know things, in general
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How Do We Know Things about How Do We Know Things about OB?OB?
• Methods of Knowing
๏ Experience
๏ Intuition
๏ Authority
๏ Science
• What are the benefits of the last one, relative to the other three?
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How Do We Know Things about How Do We Know Things about OB?OB?
• Scientific method
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How Do We Know Things about How Do We Know Things about OB?OB?
• Theory
๏ A collection of assertions (both verbal and symbolic) that specify how and why variables are related, as well as the conditions in which they should (and should not) be related
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How Do We Know Things How Do We Know Things about OB?about OB?
• To test our theory we gather data on the variables included in our hypotheses
• We then use variants of the correlation coefficient to test hypotheses, to see if they verify our theory
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How Do We Know Things How Do We Know Things about OB?about OB?
• The correlation
๏ Perfect positive relationship: 1
๏ Perfect negative relationship: -1
๏ Strength of the correlation inferred from judging the compactness of a scatterplot of the X-Y values
๏ More compact = stronger correlation
๏ Less compact = weaker correlation
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The CorrelationThe Correlation
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The CorrelationThe Correlation
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The CorrelationThe Correlation
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The CorrelationThe Correlation
• Important Disclaimer
๏ Correlation does not prove causation
• Proving causation requires:
๏ Correlation
๏ Temporal precedence
๏ Elimination of alternative explanations
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How Do We Know Things about How Do We Know Things about OB?OB?
• The correlations from multiple studies get averaged together using a technique called meta-analysis
• Meta-analyses can then form the foundation for evidence-based management--the use of scientific findings to inform management education and practice
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