Monday, August 27, 2012

Organizational behavior

Organizational behavior is the study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on behavior within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge towards improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Through organizational behavior the individuals of any organization are studied and their effectiveness is improved.

There are various objectives of the systematic study of the organizational behavior. The objectives are:
    1. Complementing intuition with systematic study
    2. Evidence based management( this implies basing management decision on the best available scientific evidence)

There are various disciplines/ social sciences that contribute to the OB field. They are:
    1. Psychology - It studies the individual behavior in OB
    2. Sociology - It studies the group behavior in OB
    3. Social Psychology
    4. Anthropology

The social psychology and anthropology studies relationships between these individuals and groups.

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