PSY 002 Human Behavior in Organization

Student Activity Sheet Module #1

Name: _____________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ______________________________________ Date: ______________

Lesson title: Defining Human Behavior in Organization Materials:

Lesson Objectives: FLM Student Activity Sheets
1. At the end of this module,
2. 1. I can define human behavior in organization. References:
3. 2. I can identify the benefits of studying human behavior. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/orga
4. nizational_behavior/index.htm

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex
overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” - Mark Twain

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
1) Introduction
Behind every organization are people who help them in achieving their goals. But do you ever
ask why there are people who transfer from one company to another? Why do people behave a
certain way in an organizational environment? Well, we’re going to discuss that and more on this
course.

Please read the learning targets before you proceed to the succeeding activities. The learning
targets are your goals. Remember, you need to achieve your learning targets at the end of the
lesson.

2) Activity 1: What I Know Chart

What do you know about Human Behavior in Organization? Try answering the questions below
by writing your ideas under the What I Know column. You may use key words or phrases that you
think are related to the questions.

What I Know Questions: What I Learned (Activity 4)

What is Human Behavior in

Organization?

What is the importance of

studying human behavior in
organization?

What are the goals of

organizational behavior?
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B. MAIN LESSON
1) Activity 2: Content Notes
Below are the notes about human behavior in organization. You may underline or highlight
words or phrases that you think is the main focus of the lesson.

Before we move on to the main topic, let’s have an overview of what will be implemented in a
Flexible Learning Mode.

Our learning framework remains to be Active Learning. In response to the needs of this new
normal, we will be adopting a Flexible Learning Approach. It is a combination of face-to-
face classes and home-based learning.
For school year 2021, we will follow the 4-10 schedule, which means:
1. Students will attend face-to-face classes for 4 days in a week;
2. Study at home for the next ten (10) days

The primary instructional material for the flexible learning set-up is the Flexible Learning
Module.
The learning experiences in the modules are designed for full self-study in the event that
students will need or will be required to stay at home.
Teacher’s Role in the 4-10 Schedule

A. In class, face-to-face, (4 days)

1. Mentor
2. Collect Flexible Learning Module Student Activity Sheets
3. Give summative assessments (quizzes, examinations)
4. Facilitate supplementary group activities
5. Provide supplementary content via videos, etc.

B. At home, self-study, (10 days)

1. Check and grade collected output.
2. Monitor work through phone calls and chats, provide guidance, answer questions,
and check understanding.

Aside from this, tips for an effective home study is also shown on the next page. Please follow
these tips as these will be a big help in making your home study a success.
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Name: _____________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ______________________________________ Date: ______________

Tips for an Effective Home Study

1. Get a good night’s sleep. Students of all ages should get at least eight hours of sleep every
school night. It’s the best way to ensure that the brain is refreshed and ready to process all of
the information learned during the day. It may be tempting to stay up late to cram, but it’s more
beneficial to get enough rest.
2. Eat properly. Don’t forget to eat! Your body and your brain needs fuel to help stay in top
form. Plus, it’s difficult to focus when you stomach is growling. Have healthy snacks but make
sure they are prepared in advance so you don’t spend too much time away from your work.
3. Get dress. By getting up and getting ready for the day, helps set the tone for making it a
productive day. Not getting dressed makes people more likely to decide to just watch videos
and sleep after lunch.
4. Have a designated study area. Whether it’s the kitchen table or the desk in your bedroom,
create an area to study that is a designated study zone. Try to reserve your bed for sleeping
and avoid studying in it (it’s easy to take a nap!).
5. Create a timetable. This helps you organize your time, schedule your breaks, and is useful
when you have multiple subjects to study. Write your schedule so you can remember it and
refer to it often. Set reasonable limits for how much time you spend studying each day, and
break you session up into manageable chunks.
6. Take notes. This may include underlining or highlighting parts of lesson that you find
important or may be seen as its focus.
7. Try active studying. It is as simple as asking questions before, during, and after study time.
Not only does this help to give your study session direction, but it also helps keep you on track
and reflect on how to improve your next study session.
8. Use a dictionary. If you pass by unfamiliar words, search for its definition. This will help you
understand each lesson everyday plus it will help you widen your vocabulary.

Now, it is time to move to our main discussion.

Human behavior refers to the physical actions of a person or group that can be observed by another
person or detected by scientific instruments. It includes not only a person’s directly observable feelings,
thoughts, motives, attitudes, values etc. that influence such behavior. These actions may be similar or
different when a person is in or out of the organization. Human behavior in organizations is otherwise
known as Organizational Behavior (OB).

Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study of human behavior in the workplace, the interaction between
people and the organization with the intent to understand and predict human behavior. The
understanding of individual, group, and organizational behavior is critical to success as a leader or a
follower, and it requires a systematic study to even begin to grasp all of the variables that impact behavior.
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The goals of Organizational Behavior are:

• To explain behavior
• To predict behavior
• To control behavior

The Elements of Organizational Behavior are:

1. People – consists of individual person or groups (can be formal or informal groups)

2. Structure – defines the formal relationship of people within the organization. It also describes how
tasks are formally divided.
3. Technology – refers to combination of resources, knowledge, and techniques which affect the
tasks the people in the organization perform.
4. Environment – companies function within a given internal and external environment. Internal
environment can be defined as the conditions, factors, and elements within an enterprise that
influences the activities, choices made by the firm, and especially the behavior of the employees.
While external environment can be defined as outside factors that affect the company's ability to
operate. Some of them can be manipulated by the company’s marketing, while others require the
company to make adjustments.

Some examples of internal environment include employee morale, culture changes, financial changes
or issues, and some examples of external environment include political factors, changes to the economy
and the company itself.

While working in an organization, it is very important to understand others behavior as well as make
others understand ours. In order to maintain a healthy working environment, we need to adapt to the
environment and understand the goals we need to achieve. This can be done easily if we understand
the importance of Organizational Behavior such as:

1. Development of skills – in doing the work and relating with people.

2. Personal growth – knowledge of the behavior of others will help the person understand his/her
own behavior.
3. Enhancement of organizational and individual effectiveness – knowledge of OB will be very useful
in making the right decisions, where effectiveness follows.
4. Sharpening and refinement of common sense

Now, let us proceed to the activities that will strengthen your knowledge of the topic.
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2) Activity 3: Skill-building Activities

Let’s practice! Answer each activity to test your understanding of the lesson. I know you can do
this! You may start now.

Exercise No. 1: Based on your notes on the previous activity, fill in the rectangles with the goals
of human behavior in organization.

You may now see the key to corrections on the last page. How many correct answers did you
get? Write your score on the space before the instruction on this exercise.

Exercise No. 2: Since you already learned organizational behavior, its goals, elements and its
importance, let’s see how much your understanding of it. Below are statements that may or may
not describe human behavior in organization. Write “YES” on the statement that you think
describes human behavior in organization and “NO” if it does not.

_____ 1. It is multidisciplinary – involves different disciplines or specialization.

_____ 2. It is all about people at work, as individuals as well as in groups.
_____ 3. It helps a company increase its efficiency and productivity.
_____ 4. It does not encourage a good relationship with the employees of the company.
_____5. It does not recognize that every organization is different.
_____6. OB states that humans will act based on the belief that they have, even if the beliefs are
false.
_____7. The behavior of employees is the key to achieving effectiveness.
_____8. OB cannot offer ways for the management to control the behavior of employees.
_____9. Human behavior and organizational behavior is the same.
_____10. OB only includes a person’s directly observable feelings, thoughts, motives, attitudes, values
etc. that influence such behavior.

You may now see the key to corrections on the last page. How many correct answers did you
get? Write your score on the space before the instruction on this exercise.
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Name: _____________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ______________________________________ Date: ______________

3) Activity 4: What I Know Chart

Now let’s check your final understanding of our lesson for today. I hope that everything about the
topic is clear to you. This time you have to fill out the What I Learned column.

4) Activity 5: Check for Understanding

On the space provided, write the missing word or phrases from the box to complete the
statements.
The skill in relating with people elements of OB human resources

Organizational behavior goals of OB multidisciplinary Human behavior

1. To succeed in any career, a person needs the skill in doing his work and __________________
2. _______________ refers to actions of a person that can be seen or heard such as smiling etc.
3. The key to an organization’s success is ________________
4. _____________________ is the study of human behavior in the workplace, the interaction
between people and the organization with the intent to understand and predict human behavior.
5. People, structure, technology and environment are _______________________ of OB.

You may check the correct answers for this activity on the last page. How many correct answers did you
get? Write your score on the space before the instruction on this exercise.

C. LESSON WRAP-UP
1) Activity 6: Thinking about Learning
A. Work Tracker
You are done with this session! Let’s track your progress. Shade the session number you just
completed.

B. Think about your Learning

1. Please read again the learning targets for the day. Were you able to achieve those learning
targets? If yes, what helped you achieve them? If no, what is the reason for not achieving them?
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2. What question(s) do you have as we end this lesson?

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FAQs
1. How does Human Behavior in Organization evolve?
Ans: The origin of Human Behavior in Organization can be traced by various approaches by management
guru, more specifically the Scientific Management approach by Frederick W. Taylor and Henri Fayol’s
Function of Management. Taylor used scientific analysis and experiment to increase worker output and
regarded workers as equivalents of machine parts and assigned them repetitive tasks. Aside from them,
various gurus also contributed to Organizational Behavior like Elton Mayo with his Hawthorne studies,
Sigmund Freud, Watson and Skinner, Abraham Maslow etc.

2. What are the other disciplines under Organizational Behavior, since it is multidisciplinary?
Ans: Psychology, Sociology, political science and cultural anthropology contribute to Organizational
Behavior.

KEY TO CORRECTIONS
Skill-Building Exercises

Exercise No. 1 Suggested Output

The following may be written on the rectangles (in any order)
1. To explain behavior
2. To predict behavior
3. To control behavior

Exercise No. 2
1. YES
2. YES
3. YES
4. NO – Human behavior in organization encourage good relationship with the employees of the
company.
5. NO – Human behavior in organization recognize that every organization is different.
6. YES
7. NO – Knowing the importance of organizational behavior is the key to achieving effectiveness.
8. NO – Organizational behavior can offer ways for the management to control the behavior of
employees.
9. NO – Human behavior refer to the physical actions of a person reflective of his behaviors while
organizational behavior is defined as the study of human behavior in organization, of the interaction
between individuals and the organization, and of the organization itself.
10. NO – It does not only include a person’s directly observable feelings, thoughts, motives, attitudes,
values, etc. that influence such behavior.
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Name: _____________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ______________________________________ Date: ______________

Check for Understanding

1. The skill in relating to people
2. Human behavior
3. Human resources
4. Organizational behavior
5. Elements of OB