Chap 1 What Is Organizational Behavior
Chap 1 What Is Organizational Behavior
Behavior
Course Code: 707018
Evaluation
• Individual
• Chapter 2: Diversity
• Chapter 3: Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
• Chapter 4: Emotions and Moods
• Chapter 5: Personality and Values
• Chapter 6: Perception and Individual Decision
Making
• Chapter 7+8: Motivation Concepts to Application
Contro
lling
Tech
nical
Hu
man
Concep
tual
Individuals
• Intuition
• A feeling not necessarily supported by research.
• Systematic study
• Looking at relationships, attempting to attribute causes
and effects, and drawing conclusions based on
scientific evidence.
• Provides a means to predict behaviors.
• Evidence-based management
• The basing of management decisions on the best
available scientific evidence.
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There are few absolutes in OB
Contingency variables
Situational factors: variables that moderate the
relationship between two or more variables and
improve the correlation.