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Organizational Behavior
Terminology and Concepts
Organizational behavior:
Organizational behavior refers to the attitudes and behavior of the individuals in the organization. Organizational behavior is a inter-disciplinary field of study that draws from many of the behavioral sciences. The goal of organizational behavior is to apply the concepts from the other behavioral sciences to pressing problems that management may be facing, as well as applying organizational behavior to the administrative theory and practices. With the problems of organizational behavior, there are a number of available strategies that can be utilized. In the past, the study of the organizations and the management used a closed-systems view. The purpose of this view was to maximize the efficiency of internal operations. In taking this particular point of view, the uncertainty of the external environmental factors were often denied. This traditional closed-systems view of any organization makes substantial contributions to the theory of organizational design. At the same time many organizations have come to be viewed as very precise and extremely complex machines. In this frame of mind, the human work force was often reduced to nothing more than a mere component of the overall organization. Something similar to that of a part of a robot programmed to put together a vehicle.
Organizational culture:
One of the primary responsibilities for management is to create and maintain the organizational characteristics that both reward and encourage a collective effort. There is no single definition for what organizational culture really is. Organizational culture has been viewed as so important to the organization tha ...