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Essentials of Organizational Behaviour (Ob) .: Week 3 & 4 Department of CS-INU Peshawar. Prepared By: Arsalan Ahmed Khan
Essentials of Organizational Behaviour (Ob) .: Week 3 & 4 Department of CS-INU Peshawar. Prepared By: Arsalan Ahmed Khan
ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR (OB).
Week 3 & 4
Department of CS-INU Peshawar.
Prepared by:
Arsalan Ahmed Khan.
Essentials of Organizational Behavior, 9/e
Stephen P. Robbins/Timothy A. Judge
Chapter 2
Foundations of
Individual Behavior
2-2
After studying this chapter, you
should be able to:
2-3
Ability
2-4
Attitudes
2-5
Major Components of Attitude
2-6
Consistency of Attitudes
2-7
Cognitive Dissonance
2-8
Moderators of the attitudes-
behavior relationship
2-9
Self-Perception Theory
2-10
Major Job Attitudes
• Job satisfaction
• Job involvement
• Psychological empowerment
• Organizational commitment
Affective commitment
Continuance commitment
Normative commitment
• Perceived organizational support
• Employee engagement
2-11
What causes job satisfaction?
2-13
Learning
• Operant Conditioning
Argues that people learn to behave to get
something they want or avoid something they
don’t want
• Social Learning
Individuals can learn by observing what
happens to other people and just being told
about something, as well as by direct
experiences
2-15
Methods of Shaping Behavior
1. Positive reinforcement
2. Negative reinforcement
3. Punishment
4. Extinction
2-16
Schedules of reinforcement
2-17
Schedules of Reinforcement
2-18
Implications for Managers
• Ability
Effective selection process improves fit
Promotion and transfer based on abilities
Fine-tune job to better match abilities
• Attitudes – raise satisfaction by focusing on
making work challenging and interesting
• Learning – Use reinforcement instead of
punishment
2-19
Summary
2-20