Transcript ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

HRM 601 Organizational
Behavior
Session 1
Course Overview, Historical
Perspective, & Research Methods
ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR
• A field of study
• that uses concepts, theories, and methods of
behavioral sciences
• to understand the behavior of individuals
and groups in organizations
• and applies the knowledge towards
improving organizational effectiveness
Building Competencies
• Building a knowledge base of theories and
research in organizational behavior
• Building of analytical and diagnostic skills
for application of theories to organizational
problems
Foundations of Organizational
Behavior
• Individual (psychological) influences
• Group (social-psychological) influences
• Organizational (sociological, political)
influences
Individual Influences
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Perception
Personality and attitudes
Learning
Motivation
Group Influences
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Group processes
Communication
Decision Making
Power & conflict
Leadership
Organizational Influences
• Design of organizations
• Organizational environments & culture
• Organizational change & development
KEY INFLUENCES ON OB
• Early industrial engineering studies
– Frederick Taylor
– Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
• The Hawthorne studies
• Recent challenges for OB
– Technology
– International competition
WHY DO RESEARCH
• To gather a body of information on to
develop a
• Systematic body of knowledge to aid in
building theories
• Contradicting theories
• Suggest new theories
• To understand and explain behavior
RESEARCH DESIGNS
• Experimental designs
• Correlational and survey designs
• Case studies and focus groups
EVALUATING RESEARCH
• Internal validity -- Can we be confident that
the outcomes of the study resulted from the
factor being manipulated or might the result
be do to some unmeasured factor
• External validity -- Can we generalize the
finding of this study to a larger population
or is our sample so restricted that the
findings relate only to a specific groups