What Is Organizational
Behaviour?
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Chapter 1 Outline
Defining Organizational Behaviour
OB: Making Sense of Behaviour in
Organizations
How Will Knowing OB Make a Difference?
Todays Challenges in the Canadian Workplace
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Organizational Behaviour
A field of study that investigates the impact of
individuals, groups, and structure on behaviour
within organizations; the aim is to apply such
knowledge toward improving organizational
effectiveness.
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Chapter1,NancyLangtonandStephenP.Robbins,
What Is an Organization?
A consciously coordinated social unit:
composed of a group of people
functioning on a relatively continuous basis
to achieve a common goal or set of goals.
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Psychology
Sociology
Social Psychology
Anthropology
Political Science
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Exhibit 1-1
Toward an OB Discipline
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The Rigour of OB
OB Looks at Consistencies
What is common about behaviour, and helps
predictability?
Exhibit 1-2
Research Methods in OB
Source:J.R.Schermerhorn,J.G.Hunt,andR.N.Osborn,OrganizationalBehaviour,9thEdition,2005,p.4.Copyright2005JohnWiley&Sons,Inc.
ReprintedwiththepermissionofJohnWiley&Sons,Inc.
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Chapter1,NancyLangtonandStephenP.Robbins,
Chapter1,NancyLangtonandStephenP.Robbins,
Exhibit 1-4
Basic OB Model
Organization systems level
Group level
Individual level
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Todays Challenges
in the Canadian Workplace
Challenges at the Individual Level
Individual Differences
Job Satisfaction
Motivation
Empowerment
Behaving Ethically
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Todays Challenges
in the Canadian Workplace
Challenges at the Group Level
Working With Others
Workforce Diversity
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Todays Challenges
in the Canadian Workplace
Challenges at the Organizational Level
Productivity
Developing Effective Employees
Putting People First
Global Competition
Managing and Working in a Multicultural World
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Todays Challenges
in the Canadian Workplace
Productivity
A performance measure including effectiveness and
efficiency.
Effectiveness
The achievement of goals.
Efficiency
The ratio of effective work output to the input
required to produce the work.
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Chapter1,NancyLangtonandStephenP.Robbins,
Chapter1,NancyLangtonandStephenP.Robbins,
Chapter1,NancyLangtonandStephenP.Robbins,
Global Competition
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OB at Work
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For Review
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3.
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8.
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3.
4.
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Taking initiative
Goal setting
Delegating effectively
Personal productivity and
motivation
5. Motivating others
6. Time and stress management
7. Planning
8. Organizing
9. Controlling
10. Receiving and organizing
information
11. Evaluating routine information
12. Responding to routine information
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Director: 1, 2, 3
Producer: 4, 5, 6
Coordinator: 7, 8, 9
Monitor: 10, 11, 12
Source:CreatedbasedonmaterialfromR.E.Quinn,S.R.Faerman,M.P.Thompson,andM.R.McGrath,BecomingAMasterManager:ACompetency
Framework(NewYork:JohnWiley&Sons,Inc.1990),Chapter1.
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Exhibit 1-5
Competing Values Framework
External Focus
Internal Focus
Flexibility
Source:AdaptedfromK.CameronandR.
E.Quinn,DiagnosingandChanging
OrganizationalCulture:Basedonthe
CompetingValuesFramework(Reading,
MA:AddisonWesleyLongman,1999).
Control
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Flexibility-Control Dimension
Flexible and dynamic, allowing more teamwork and participation; seeking
new opportunities for products and services
or
Controlling or stable, maintaining the status quo and exhibiting less
change
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1. Understanding
yourself and others
2. Interpersonal
communication
3. Developing
subordinates
1. Team building
2. Participative
decision making
3. Conflict
management
Mentor Innovator
Facilitator
Broker
Internal
1. Receiving and
organizing information
2. Evaluating
routine information
3. Responding to
routine information
External
Monitor
Producer
Coordinator Director
1. Planning
2. Organizing
3. Controlling
1. Personal productivity
and motivation
2. Motivating others
3. Time and stress
management
1. Taking initiative
2. Goal setting
3. Delegating effectively
Control
Source:R.E.Quinn.BeyondRationalManagement.SanFrancisco:JosseyBassInc.,1988,p.86.
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Supplemental Material
Slides for activities I do in my own
classroom
Chapter1,NancyLangtonandStephenP.Robbins,
Exercise
In groups of 6
Introduce yourselves.
Pick an interviewer.
Decide on questions or topics you want interviewer to ask
me.
The interview
Introduce interviewer to me and the class.
Ask one question from your list (we will go around the
groups with one question at a time).
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