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organizational behavior
stephen p. robbins
Chapter
Chapter One
One
What Is Organizational
Behavior
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
S T E P H E N P. R O B B I N S
E L E V E N T H E D I T I O N
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What
What Managers
Managers Do
Do
Managerial
ManagerialActivities
Activities
••Make
Makedecisions
decisions
••Allocate
Allocateresources
resources
••Direct
Directactivities
activitiesof
ofothers
others
to
toattain
attaingoals
goals
Organization
A consciously coordinated social unit,
composed of two or more people, that
functions on a relatively continuous basis
to achieve a common goal or set of
goals.
Planning
Planning Organizing
Organizing
Management
Management
Functions
Functions
Controlling
Controlling Leading
Leading
Planning
A process that includes defining goals,
establishing strategy, and developing
plans to coordinate activities.
Organizing
Determining what tasks are to be done,
who is to do them, how the tasks are to
be grouped, who reports to whom, and
where decisions are to be made.
Leading
A function that includes motivating
employees, directing others, selecting
the most effective communication
channels, and resolving conflicts.
Controlling
Monitoring activities to ensure they are being
accomplished as planned and correcting any
significant deviations.
Source: Adapted from The Nature of Managerial Work by H. Mintzberg. Copyright © 1973 E X H I B I T 1–1
by H. Mintzberg. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education.
E X H I B I T 1–1
Source: Adapted from The Nature of Managerial Work by H. Mintzberg. Copyright © 1973 E X H I B I T 1–1 (cont’d)
by H. Mintzberg. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education.
E X H I B I T 1–1 (cont’d)
Source: Adapted from The Nature of Managerial Work by H. Mintzberg. Copyright © 1973 E X H I B I T 1–1 (cont’d)
by H. Mintzberg. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education.
E X H I B I T 1–1 (cont’d)
Technical skills
The ability to apply specialized
knowledge or expertise.
Human skills
The ability to work with, understand,
and motivate other people, both
individually and in groups.
Conceptual Skills
The mental ability to analyze and
diagnose complex situations.
1.
1.Traditional
Traditionalmanagement
management
• •Decision
Decisionmaking,
making,planning,
planning,and
andcontrolling
controlling
2.
2.Communication
Communication
• •Exchanging
Exchangingroutine
routineinformation
informationand
andprocessing
processing
paperwork
paperwork
3.
3.Human
Humanresource
resourcemanagement
management
• •Motivating,
Motivating,disciplining,
disciplining,managing
managingconflict,
conflict,staffing,
staffing,
and
andtraining
training
4.
4.Networking
Networking
• •Socializing,
Socializing,politicking,
politicking,and
andinteracting
interactingwith
withothers
others
Organizational behavior
(OB)
A field of study that
investigates the impact that
individuals, groups, and
structure have on behavior
within organizations, for the
purpose of applying such
knowledge toward improving
an organization’s effectiveness.
Intuition
A feeling not necessarily supported by research.
Systematic study
Looking at relationships, attempting to attribute
causes and effects, and drawing conclusions based
on scientific evidence.
Provides a means to predict behaviors.
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Replacing
Replacing Intuition
Intuition with
with Systematic
Systematic Study
Study
Preconceived The
Notions ≠ Facts
E X H I B I T 1–3
E X H I B I T 1–3
Psychology
The science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes
change the behavior of humans and other animals.
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
Sociology
The study of people in relation to their fellow human beings.
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
Social Psychology
An area within psychology that blends concepts from psychology
and sociology and that focuses on the influence of people on one
another.
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
Anthropology
The study of societies to learn about human beings and their
activities.
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
Political Science
The study of the behavior of individuals and groups
within a political environment.
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
E X H I B I T 1–3 (cont’d)
E X H I B I T 1–4
E X H I B I T 1–4
Contingency variables
Situational factors: variables that moderate
the relationship between two or more other
variables and improve the correlation.
x Contingency
Variables y
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Challenges
Challenges and
and Opportunities
Opportunities for
for OB
OB
Responding to Globalization
– Increased foreign assignments
– Working with people from different cultures
– Coping with anti-capitalism backlash
– Overseeing movement of jobs to countries with low-
cost labor
Managing Workforce Diversity
– Embracing diversity
– Changing U.S. demographics
– Implications for managers
• Recognizing and responding to differences
Gender
Gender
National
National
Disability
Disability Origin
Origin
Age
Age
Non-Christian
Non-Christian
Race
Race
Domestic
Domestic
Partners
Partners
E X H I B I T 1–5
E X H I B I T 1–5
E X H I B I T 1–6
E X H I B I T 1–6
Model
An abstraction of reality.
A simplified representation
of some real-world
phenomenon.
E X H I B I T 1–7
E X H I B I T 1–7
Dependent variable
A response that is affected by an independent variable.
x
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The
The Dependent
Dependent Variables
Variables (cont’d)
(cont’d)
Productivity
A performance measure that includes
effectiveness and efficiency.
Effectiveness
Achievement of goals.
Efficiency
The ratio of effective
output to the input
required to achieve it.
Absenteeism
The failure to report to work.
Turnover
The voluntary and
involuntary permanent
withdrawal from an
organization.
Organizational citizenship
behavior (OCB)
Discretionary behavior that is not
part of an employee’s formal job
requirements, but that nevertheless
promotes the effective functioning
of the organization.
Job satisfaction
A general attitude toward one’s job, the difference
between the amount of reward workers receive and
the amount they believe they should receive.
Independent variable
The presumed cause of some change in the dependent
variable.
Independent
Independent
Variables
Variables