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ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
REVISION OF UNIT-1
 Organizational Psychology
Organizational psychology, this field focuses on increasing workplace productivity and related issues
such as the physical and mental well-being of employees.

Job Satisfaction
Personnel Psychology
Leadership
What & Why?
Organizational Behaviour
Employee Motivation
Ergonomics
Conflict Management
Career Counseling
Organizational Change
organizational Development
Group Process
Organizational Communication

Key
SUBSPECIALTIES Takeaways SCOPE

Increased Productivity
Recruit the Right People
Attraction Increase Performance
Selection ASA MODEL Foster a Team Performance
Attrition Increase Motivation and
Engagement
Individual Individual differences have a
direct effect on behavior.

Differences
People who perceive things
differently behave
differently.
People with different
IMPORTANCE attitudes respond differently
Individual differences are the ways in to directives.
which people differ from each other. People with different
personalities interact
Every member of an organization has differently with bosses,
coworkers, subordinates, and
its own way of behavior. It is important customers.
for managers to understand individual

differences because they influence

How does it Help?
the feelings, thoughts, and behavior

of employees
Why some people embrace
change and others are
fearful of it

Aptitude Why some employees will

Personality be productive only if they
Ability are closely supervised, while
CHARACTERISTICS
Values others will be productive if
Perception they are not
Attitude
Why some workers learn
new tasks more effectively
than others
Personality
According to Gordon Allport says “personality is the
dynamic organization within the individual of those
psychophysical systems that determine his unique
adjustments to his environment”

The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and

interacts with others.

Answering questions about his

Genetic Factors
attitudes, feelings and behavior
Environmental
Direct observations of behavior
Factors

Determinants of Measuring
Personality Personality
Key
Personality Takeways Levels of Memory
Drivers

Thought Patterns Conscious

Behavioral Patterns Pre - Conscious
Emotional Patterns Un - Conscious
Personality

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic

personality theory
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Erik Erikson's psychosocial Traits

Important Key Personality

Theories
Takeways Theories

Psycho-dynamic Theory
The Humanistic Approach to
Personality
Trait Theory