1. Human Behavior

2. Human Behavior
 Refers to the physical actions of a person that can be seen or heard
such as smiling or whistling.
 The person exhibit's behavior similar or different when he is in or out
of an organization based on his thoughts, feelings, emotions and
sentiments.
 Human behavior in an organization is none appropriately referred to
as organizational behavior (OB)

3. Organizational Behavior
 Refers to the study of human behavior in organization of interaction
between individuals and organization and of the organization itself.

4. Three Goals of Organization
Behavior
 To explain behavior
 To predict behavior
 To central behavior

5. Explain Behavior
 Organization Behavior needs to systematically describe how people
behave under a variety of conditions and understand why people
behave as they do.

6. Predict Behavior
 OB must be used to predict behavior so support can be provided to
productive and dedicated employees
Measures could be instituted to central the disruptive and less
productive ones

7. Central Behavior
 Central is important component of effective performance

8. THE ELEMENTS OF OB
 People
 Structure
 Technology
 Environment

9. The Benefits of Studying OB
 Development of people skills
 Personal growth
 Enhancement of organizational and individual effectiveness
 Sharpening & refinement of commonsense

10. Two Types of skills that a person need to
succeed in his chosen career
 Skills in doing his work
 Skills in relating to people

11. Personal Growth
 Makes a person highly competitive
 Intrapersonal intelligence
 Knowledge of the behavior of others through the study of OB will
help the person understand his own behavior

12. Enhancement of Organizational
and Individual Effectiveness
 Effectiveness is a major attribute of successful organization as well as
individuals
 When right decisions are made effectiveness follows

13. Sharpening and Refinement of
Common Sense
 People differ in Common sense they possess.

14. BRIEF HISTORY of ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
The Origin of OB can be traced to the following:
1. The Human Relations approach
 Scientific management approach by Frederick W. Taylor
 Human relations approach by Elton Mayo
2. The Personality Theories
 Freud Model
 Behaviorist approach by WATSON & SKINNER
 Humanist approach by Carl Rogers, FRITZ PERLS and ABRAHAM
MASLOW.

15. FREDERICK TAYLOR
 Primary purpose of the scientific management was the application
of scientific method to increase the individual Workers productivity.
 Used scientific Analysis and experiment to increase worker output.
 Required individuals as equivalent of machines parts and assigned
them specific repetitive tasks.

16. ELTON MAYO
 His research team conducted the HAWTHORNE studies in 1920
 To determine what effect hours of work periods of rest and lighting
might have on Worker fatigue and productivity.
 Found out that social environment have an equivalent if not greater
effect in productivity then the physical environment.
 Social interaction is a factor for increased productivity.

17. Sigmund Freud
 Psychologist who brought the idea that people are motivated by for
more than conscious logical reasoning.
 Irrational motives make up the hidden subconscious mind which
determines the major part of people’s behavior.

18. JB WATSON
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