OB definitions, Objectives of OB, Types of Organizations, Role of Scientific Spirituality at Workplace

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Department of Scientific Spirituality
Dr. Piyush Trivedi dr.piyushptrivedi@gmail.com

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Whatis“OrganizationalBehaviour”?
•OB is the understanding, prediction
and management of human
behaviour in an organization.
(p. 21, Organizational Behaviour, 10th
edition by Fred Luthans, The
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. )

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Whatis“OrganizationalBehaviour”?
•OB is a field of study that investigates the impact
that individuals, groups and structure have on
behaviour within organizations for the purpose
of applying such knowledge toward improving
an organization’s effectiveness.
(p. 8, Organizational behaviour, eleventh
edition by Stephen P. Robbins & Seema Sanghi,
Pearson Education (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. )

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Whatis“OrganizationalBehaviour”?
•Organisational behaviour is a branch of the
social sciences that seek to build theories
that can be applied to predicting,
understanding and controlling behaviour in
work organisations.
(p. 11, Managing Organisational Behaviour by
Ramon J. Aldag and Arthur P. Brief, St. Paul:
West Publishing. )

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Benefitsofthis
Course
• Benefits for Psychology Students
• Benefits for other Students
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Objectives of this course
• To Understand the human behaviour in an
organization
• To understand the role of human behaviour in major
aspects of an organization
• To understand the importance of Indian Wisdom at
the workplace
• To develop skills useful at the workplace.
• To Understand the Indian wisdom and Indian Scenario
for the step ahead towards developing the theories
suitable for the workplace in India
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TypesofOrganizations
• Corporations
• Government organizations
• Non-government organisations
• Partnerships
• Cooperatives
• Educational institutions
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Individualdimensionsoforganizationalbehaviour
•Personality
•Decision Making
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Groupdimensionsoforganizationalbehaviour
•Communication
•Group Development
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Leadership
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•Self Leadership
•Group Leadership

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HumanResourceManagement
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•Training & Development
•Organizational Stress
• Job Performance

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RoleofScientific
Spiritualityat
Workplace
• Evidence based Pscychospiritual Audit of the
workplace
• Training for the Evidence based spiritual practices at
the workplace
Official email id of the Department: Scientific.spirituality@dsvv.ac.in 12

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Points to remember:
• Suggest an activity
• Self Study