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The Industrial Revolution is the period from approximately 1760 when new
technologies resulted in the adoption of new manufacturing techniques,
including increased mechanization.
The industrial revolution led to signi cant social and cultural change,
including new forms of organization.
Works of scholars like Elton Mayo, Chester Barnard, Henri Fayol, Mary Parker
Follett, Frederick Herzberg, Abraham Mas low, David Mc Cellan and Victor
Vroom contributed to the growth of Organisational Behaviour as a discipline.
Works of scholars like Elton Mayo, Chester Barnard, Henri Fayol, Mary Parker
Follett, Frederick Herzberg, Abraham Maslow, David Mc Cellan and Victor
Vroom contributed to the growth of Organisational Behaviour as a discipline.
Simon along with Chester Barnard; argued that people make decisions di
erently in organizations than outside of them. Simon was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Economics for his work on organizational decision making.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the eld became more quantitative and
produced such ideas as the informal organization, and resource
dependence. Contingency theory, institutional theory, and
organizational ecology also enraged.
person, whole group, the whole organization, and whole social system.
Job Satisfaction.
Finding the Right People.
Organizational Culture.
Leadership and Con ict Resolution.
Understanding the Employees Better.
Understand how to Develop Good Leaders.
Develop a Good Team.
Higher Productivity.
Individual Di erences.
Perception.
A whole Person.
Motivated Behavior.
The desire for Involvement.
The value of the Person.
Human Dignity.
Organizations are Social System.
Mutuality of Interest.
Holistic Concept.
Organizational Behavior will not make up for our de ciencies, cannot substitute
for poor planning, inept organizing, or inadequate controls. It is only one of the
many systems operating within a larger social system.
Behavioral Bias.
The Law of Diminishing Returns.
Unethical Manipulation of People.
It proposes that there are three levels of analysis in OB and that, as we move
from the individual level to the organization systems level, we add
systematically to our understanding of behavior in organizations.
The three basic levels are analogous to building blocks; each level is
constructed on the previous level.
Group concepts grow out of the foundation laid in the individual section; we
overlay constraints on the individual and group in order to arrive at
organizational behavior.
People.
Structure.
Technology.
Environment.
Psychology.
Sociology.
Social Psychology.
Anthropology.
Political Sciences.
Economics.
The search for the truth of why people behave the way they do is a very
delicate and complicated process.
In fact, the problems are so great that many scholars, Chie y from the
physical and engineering sciences, argue that there can be no precise
science of behavior.
organization and how that behavior a ects the performance of the organization.
OB draws heavily from behavioral and social sciences, most importantly from
psychology.
1. OB is the study of learning how to predict human behavior and, then, apply it
in some useful way to make the organization more e ective. It helps in e
ective utilization of people working in the organization guarantees success of
the organization.
OB helps the managers to understand the basis of motivation and what he
should do to motivate his subordinates.
OB helps to maintain cordial industrial relations which help to increase
the overall productivity of the industry.
Helps greatly in improving bur inter-personal relations in the
organizations.
Helps managers apply appropriate motivational techniques in accordance
with the nature of individual employees who exhibit a learning di erence
in many respects.
Conclusion
person, whole group, the whole organization, and whole social system.
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