What is the study organizational behavior?

OB allows us to examine how to:

– Describe – How people behave under
variety of conditions
– Understand – Why people act as they
do
– Predict – Employees’ behavior
– Control – Human activities that would
make an impact on employees’ behavior
(skills development, team effort, change
management

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