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    Organizational behavior is defined as the study of human behavior in organizations. It examines how individuals, groups, and structures affect and are affected by behavior in organizations. Specifically, organizational behavior is concerned with individual behavior, group behavior, and how organizational structure impacts behavior. Understanding organizational behavior helps managers effectively structure organizations, motivate employees, implement strategies, manage diversity, improve ethics and communication, and increase quality and productivity. Key factors that influence organizational behavior include environmental factors and constraints on organizations and managerial performance.

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    Organizational behavior is defined as the study of human behavior in organizations. It examines how individuals, groups, and structures affect and are affected by behavior in organizations. Specifically, organizational behavior is concerned with individual behavior, group behavior, and how organizational structure impacts behavior. Understanding organizational behavior helps managers effectively structure organizations, motivate employees, implement strategies, manage diversity, improve ethics and communication, and increase quality and productivity. Key factors that influence organizational behavior include environmental factors and constraints on organizations and managerial performance.

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    Organizational behavior is defined as the study of human behavior in organizations. It examines how individuals, groups, and structures affect and are affected by behavior in organizations. Specifically, organizational behavior is concerned with individual behavior, group behavior, and how organizational structure impacts behavior. Understanding organizational behavior helps managers effectively structure organizations, motivate employees, implement strategies, manage diversity, improve ethics and communication, and increase quality and productivity. Key factors that influence organizational behavior include environmental factors and constraints on organizations and managerial performance.

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    Organizational behavior is defined as the study of human behavior in organizations. It examines how individuals, groups, and structures affect and are affected by behavior in organizations. Specifically, organizational behavior is concerned with individual behavior, group behavior, and how organizational structure impacts behavior. Understanding organizational behavior helps managers effectively structure organizations, motivate employees, implement strategies, manage diversity, improve ethics and communication, and increase quality and productivity. Key factors that influence organizational behavior include environmental factors and constraints on organizations and managerial performance.

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    Organizational behavior - meaning - importance - historical development of


    organizational behavior - organization as a social system - socio-technical
    system - open system - factors influencing organizational behavior environmental factors - constraints over organization and managerial
    performance.

    Definition and meaning of organisational behaviour


    According to Keith Davis "organizational behaviour is the study and application of
    knowledge about how people act within organizations. It is human tool for the human benefit.
    It applies broadly to behaviour of people in all type of organization such as business,
    government, schools, etc. it helps people, structure, technology, and the external environment blend
    together in to an effective operative system".

    Stephen P Robins
    Organizational behaviour as a systematic study of the actions and attitudes that people exhibit
    within organizations.

    According to Luthans
    OB is directly concerned with the understanding, predicting and controlling of human behavior
    in organizations.

    Meaning
    OB is Study of human behavior in organizations. There are two words1- Organization
    2- Behaviour
    The study of Organizational Behaviour (OB) is very interesting and challenging too. It is related
    to individuals, group of people working together in teams. The study of organizational behaviour
    relates to the expected behaviour of an individual in the organization. No two individuals are
    likely to behave in the same manner in a particular work situation. It is the predictability of a
    manager about the expected behaviour of an individual.
    OB is concerned with the study of what people do in an organization (social system) and how
    that behavior affects the performance of the organization
    Individual Behavior
    Individual and group behavior
    Organizational structure

    Significance of OB

    Managing Workplace DiversityWork force diversity means that organizations are becoming more heterogeneous in
    terms of gender, which varies from the so-called norm. It includes women, south Indians,
    Benalies, Punjabies , physically disabled, elderly etc.

    Improving ethical behavior


    After understanding the mechanism of human behavior, managers are required to
    control and direct the behaviour so that it conforms to the standards required for
    achieving the organisational objectives. Thus, managers are required to control and
    direct the behaviour at all levels of individual interaction.

    In define authority, power and status of an employee Power is referred to as the capacity of an individual to take certain action and may be
    utilized in many ways. Organizational behaviour explains how various means of power
    and sanction can ,be utilized so that both organizational and individual objectives are
    achieved simultaneously.

    In making communicationCommunication helps people to come in contact with each other. To achieve
    organisational objectives, the communication must be effective

    Essential to effectively strategy implementationOrganizations have to adapt themselves to the environmental changes by making
    suitable, internal arrangements such as convincing employees who normally have the
    tendency of resisting any changes.

    Improving Quality and Productivity

    In making effective organizational structure

    In making group

    In motivation

    In organizational development

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