Organizational Behavior Concept & Definition
Organizational Behaviour (OB) is the study of human behaviour in organizational
settings, the interface between human behaviour and the organization, and the
organization itself.
Organizational Behaviour researchers
study the behaviour of individuals primarily in their organizational roles.
As a multidisciplinary field,
organizational behaviour has been influenced by developments in a number of
allied disciplines including sociology, psychology, economics, and engineering
as well as by the experience of practitioners.
Definition
According to Stephen P. Robbins,
"Organisational behaviour (OB) 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."
According to Aldag and Brief, " OB
is a branch of social sciences that seeks to build theories that can be applied
to predicting, understanding and controlling behaviour in a work
organisation."
“Organizational behaviour is directly
concerned with the understanding, prediction, and control of human behaviour in
organizations.” — Fred Luthans.
Organizational behaviour is the study of
both group and individual performance and activity within an organization.
Organisational
behaviour is the multidisciplinary approach which is an integration of
different field of studies like psychology, sociology, social psychology,
anthropology, and political science.
This area of study examines human
behaviour in a work environment and determines its impact on job structure,
performance, communication, motivation, leadership, etc.
It is the systematic study and
application of knowledge about how individuals and groups act within the
organizations where they work. OB draws from other disciplines to create a
unique field.
For example, when we review topics such
as personality and motivation, we will again review studies from the field of
psychology. The topic of team processes relies heavily on the field of
sociology.
When we study power and influence in
organizations, we borrow heavily from political sciences.
Even medical science contributes to the
field of Organizational Behaviour, particularly in the study of stress and its
effects on individuals.
There is increasing agreement as to the
components or topics that constitute the subject area of OB.
Although there is still considerable
debate as to the relative importance of change, there appears to be general
agreement that OB includes the core topics of motivation, leader behaviour, and
power, interpersonal communication, group structure and processes, learning,
attitude development, and perception, change processes, conflict, work design,
and work stress.
OB studies human behaviour at
individual level, group level and organisational level.
Basically, organisations are made up of peoples, therefore managers in the
organisation must know how they behave in an organisation to make organisation
productive.
Different Definitions of Organisational
Behaviour are given below:
According
to Keith Davis, “Organisational behaviour is an academic discipline concerned
with understanding and describing human behaviour in an organisational
environment. It seeks to shed light both on the whole complex human factor in
organisations by identifying causes and effects of that behaviour.”
In
the words of Joe Kelly, “Organisational behaviour is the systematic study of
the nature of organisations: how they begin, grow and develop, and their effect
on individual members, constituent groups, other organisations, and larger institutions."
According
to James Lau, “Organisational behaviour, to define it most broadly, is the
utilization of theory and methods of academic disciplines for understanding and
influencing behaviour of people in organisations."
According
to Stephen P. Robbins, “Organisational behaviour is a field of study that
investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on
behaviour within organisations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge
towards improving an organisation's effectiveness.”
According
to Fred Luthans, "Organisational behaviour is directly concerned with the
understanding, prediction, and control of human behaviour in organisations. It
represents the behavioural approach to management, not the whole the of
management."
In
the words of Szilagyi and Wallance, “Organizational behaviour is concerned with
the study of the behaviour, attitudes, and performance of workers in an
organisational setting; the organization's and informal group's effect on the
worker's perceptions, feelings, and action; the environment's effect on the
organization and its human resources and goals; and the effect of the workers
on the organization and its effectiveness.”
According
to Larry Cummings, “OB is the systematic study of the behaviour and attitudes
of both individuals and groups within organisations.”
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