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What Is Organizational Behaviour?

What Managers Do

Managerial Activities• Make decisions• Allocate resources• Direct activities of others

to attain goals

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Where Managers Work

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Management Functions

ManagementManagementFunctionsFunctions

PlanningPlanning OrganizingOrganizing

LeadingLeadingControllingControlling

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Management Functions (cont’d)

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Management Functions (cont’d)

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Management Functions (cont’d)

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Management Functions (cont’d)

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Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles

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Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles (cont’d)

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Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles (cont’d)

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Management Skills

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Enter Organizational Behavior

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Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field

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Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d)

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Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d)

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Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d)

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Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d)

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Why Do We Study OB?

To learn about yourself and how to deal with others

You are part of an organization now, and will continue to be a part of various organizations

Organizations are increasingly expecting individuals to be able to work in teams, at least some of the time

Some of you may want to be managers or entrepreneurs

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What Is an Organization?

A consciously coordinated social unit, composed of a group of people, which functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals.

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Challenges Facing the Workplace

Workplace

Organizational Level

• Productivity• Developing Effective Employees• Global Competition• Managing in the Global Village

Group Level

• Working With Others• Workforce Diversity

Individual Level

• Job Satisfaction• Empowerment• Behaving Ethically

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Challenges and Opportunity for OB

Responding to Globalization Managing Workforce Diversity Improving Quality and Productivity Responding to the Labor Shortage Improving Customer Service

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Challenges and Opportunity for OB (cont’d)

Improving People Skills Empowering People Coping with “Temporariness” Stimulation Innovation and Change Helping Employees Balance Work/Life Conflicts Improving Ethical Behavior

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Basic OB Model, Stage I

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The Dependent Variables

x

y

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The Dependent Variables (cont’d)

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The Dependent Variables (cont’d)

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The Dependent Variables (cont’d)

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The Dependent Variables (cont’d)

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The Independent Variables

IndependentIndependentVariablesVariables

Individual-Level Individual-Level VariablesVariables

OrganizationOrganizationSystem-LevelSystem-Level

VariablesVariables

Group-LevelGroup-LevelVariablesVariables

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The Rigour of OB

OB looks at consistencies– What is common about behaviour, and helps

predictability? OB is more than common sense

– Systematic study, based on scientific evidence OB has few absolutes OB takes a contingency approach

– Considers behaviour in context

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Competing Values Framework

Flexibility

Control

Inte

rnal

Foc

us External Focus

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Competing Values Framework

Internal-External Dimension– Inwardly toward employee needs and concerns

and/or production processes and internal systemsor

– Outwardly, toward such factors as the marketplace, government regulations, and the changing social, environmental, and technological conditions of the future

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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