THE DYNAMICS OF

PEOPLE AND
ORGANIZATION
Mark Patrics C. Verdera
 The Dynamics of People and Organization

The primary goal of

MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
is to develop 1 • Think ahead
students INTO
MANAGERS who can 2 • Exercise good judgment
think ahead, exercise
good judgment, make
ethical decisions, 3 • Make Ethical Decisions
and take into
consideration the 4
• Take into consideration the implications of
implications of their their proposed actions
proposed actions.
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 • There are no
• Sometimes perfect solutions
unpredictab to Organizational
le • Partially Problems
Understood

Organizations are complex

systems
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

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 DEFINITION
Organizational Behavior

How do you define Organizational Behavior?

 Organizational Behavior
It is the systematic study and careful application of
knowledge about how people – as individuals and as groups –
act within organizations. 6

Information about effective

practices in one organization is
being extended to many others.

A large number of research

studies and conceptual
developments are constantly
adding to its knowledge base.
 Organizational Behavior
• Five (5) levels of analysis

• When two or more groups need

to coordinate their efforts
• How two “Individuals” Interact
• INTERGROUP
• INTERPERSONAL

• WHOLE
SYSTEMS
• INDIVIDUAL • GROUPS • Interorganizational
S • Dynamics of Relationship
Relationship
within small groups both
• How he/she behave in an formal teams and informal
organization. groups
 GOALS
Organizational Behavior

THE FOUR MAJOR THRUST

GOALS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
• Four Major Thrust
• CONTROL
• Develop some Human Activity at work

• DESCRIBE
• Allows the managers to communicate about human
behavior at work using a common language

• PREDICTING
• Future employee behavior

• UNDERSTAND
• Why people behave as they do.
• Reason behind actions.
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 FORCES
Organizational Behavior
 FORCES

• PEOPLE
• Forces affecting
Organizational Behavior • STRUCTURE

• TECHNOLOGY

• ENVIRONMENT

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PEOPLE
People make up the internal
social system of the
Organization

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 What system consists.

UNOFFICIA
INDIVIDUA
GROUPS LS
L

SYSTEM
FORMAL
LARGE INFORMA
GROUPS L

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STRUCTURE
The formal relationship and
use of people in organizations

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology provides the
resources with which people
work and affects the task they
perform
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ENVIRONMENT
Environments can be internal
or external, and all
organizations operate within
them
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CHARACTERISTICS
Organizational Behavior
CHARACTERISTICS
One major strength of
Organizational Behavior is its
interdisciplinary nature
It applies from these
disciplines any ideas that
will improve the relationship
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 application of
conceptual
THREE KEYS TO SUCCESS models and
• Positive characteristics of the Organizational Behavior Field
research results
in order to
Offer improve
explanations individual and
of how and why organizational
people think, PRACTICE
feel, and act performance at
The process of
work
as they do
• Good theories are also practical
• gathering and
Evidence Based Management
interpreting
relevant
evidence that
will either
support
THEORY RESEARCH
behavioral
theory or help
change it.
• Research Hypothesis

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(Management students) must
develop systemic thinking
skills that will enable
them to develop a richer
understanding of the
complexity they will face
on a daily basis.
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