Individual and group behavior in organizations is influenced by many factors. These include an individual's background, personality, values, attitudes, job satisfaction, and motivation. Group behavior also depends on dynamics like communication, leadership, decision making, power and politics. Organizational behavior studies how individuals and groups act in different situations and how to manage behavior to meet organizational goals.
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OB Introduction
Individual and group behavior in organizations is influenced by many factors. These include an individual's background, personality, values, attitudes, job satisfaction, and motivation. Group behavior also depends on dynamics like communication, leadership, decision making, power and politics. Organizational behavior studies how individuals and groups act in different situations and how to manage behavior to meet organizational goals.
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Individual behaviour
Behaviour of an individual employee is influenced by several factors like
the individuals mental make-up, family background ,educational background, social and cultural background, geographical region, personality traits, values ,attitudes , opinions ,e.t.c.. Individual behaviour studied through perception, personality, job satisfaction and motivation. perception Perception refers to a complex cognitive process that yield a unique picture of the world may be quite different from reality. Individuals behave based on their perceptual world or impressions. Personality: Personality Is the sum total of wage in which any individual reacts and interacts with others hereditary factors, environmental factors ,situation factors determine personality . values: Values are the basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or a end- state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence. Attitudes: Attitudes are evaluative statements favorable or unfavorable conserving objects ,people or events . Job satisfaction: Refers to a persons feeling of satisfaction the job, which acts as a motivation to work. Motivation: Motivation is the process that account for an individuals intensity , direction and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. Learning: Learning is relatively permanent change in the behaviour that occurs as a result of experience. Group behaviour An integrated and comprehensive behaviour of people in a group behaviour is studied through group dynamic items communication, power and politics Group dynamic: Groups are formed with a specific purpose. They exist for some items until the purpose achieve and then disband or adjurn .groups are formed and informed .other types of groups include-command groups, task groups, interest groups, friends groups .Groups behave and function based on its norms. Team work: Team work is a group whose individual effort result in a performance that is greater than the sum of individual inputs. Different types of teams include problem solving, self manage work team, cross functional team and virtual terms. Power and politics Power refers to the ability of the people to acquire the resource and award them t various people in organisations. Communication: Communication is transferring of information and understanding the meaning of it. Communication may be formal or informal, down word, upward, horizontal and cross-wise. Leadership: Leadership is the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of goals .leadership styles include autocratic style , benevolent autocratic style , participative style and democratic style. Decision making: Decision making is developing alternative solutions to a problem and selecting the best solution from the alternative solutions. Organisational factors: Organisational structure is dividing, grouping and coordinating the job tasks . job tasks may be structured based on departments, functions, geographical areas, products or service. Organisational theory: Organisational theory refers to various models of structuring work activities and jobs in order to build relationships among people, jobs, goals, etc. Organisational culture: Organisational culture is a pattern of basic assumption invented discovered or deployed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of internal adoption and internal integration that has worked well enough to be considered valuable and there for to be taught to new members as the correct way to receive think and feel in relation to those problems. Organisational effectiveness: Organisational effectiveness refers to selecting the right objectives and goals depending upon the environmental social goals of the country in which the company is operating. Organisational behaviour Organisational behaviour is studying the behaviour of individuals and groups. OB studies the behaviour systematically, how people behave under a variety of situations and conditions.it also studies why people behave as they do. Thus, it identifies the reasons for the behaviour. OB predicts the future behaviour of employees. Managers based on the past behaviour of the employees, traits, values and future situations predict the future behaviour of employees. If the predict behaviour is not in accordance with the requirements of organisational statergies, managers mould the employee behaviour towards organisational requirement by changing the reward system, organisation structure, leadership styles, group norms etc .Thus, managers manage behaviour