OB Chapter 1 - Organizational Behavior (2023/2024) Graded A+

OB Chapter 1 - Organizational Behavior (2023/2024) Graded A+ organizational behavior a field of study dedicated to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals in groups in organizations human resources management explores applications of OB theories and principles strategic management the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization's profitability job performance and organizational commitment individual outcomes job satisfaction; stress; motivation; truth, justice and ethics; learning and decisions making individual mechanisms job satisfaction what employees feel when thinking about their jobs and day-to-day work stress employees' psychological responses to job demands that tax or exceed their capacity motivation energetic forces that drive employees' work effort truth, justice, and ethics how employees feel about the company's business in regards to fairness, honesty, and integrity learning and decision making how employees' gain job knowledge and apply that knowledge to on the job decision making personality and cultural values; ability individual characteristics personality and cultural values the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act; affect the way people act at work, the tasks that interest them, and their reaction to events on the job ability the cognitive abilities, emotional skills, and physical abilities that employees bring to a job team characteristics and diversity; team processes and communication; leader power and negotiation; leader styles and behavior group mechanisms team characteristics and diversity how teams are formed, staffed, and composed; how team members come to rely on each other team processes and communication how teams behave (coordination, conflict, cohesion) leader power and negotiation how individuals attain authority over others leader styles and behavior the specific actions leaders take to influence others at work organizational structure and organizational culture organizational mechanisms organizational structure how the units within the firm link to and communicate with other unites organizational culture shared knowledge about the value and beliefs that shape employee attitudes and behaviors resource-based view of OB what makes resources valuable, includes the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the workforce and the image, culture, and goodwill of the organization they create a history, they make many small decisions, and they create socially complex resources why people are valuable history a collective pool of experience, wisdom, and knowledge at benefits the organization numerous small decisions makes organizations inimitable socially complex resources culture, teamwork, trust, and organization model of experience, model of intuition, model of authority, model of science the models of knowledge model of experience people hold a belief because it is consistent with their own observations or experiences model of intuition people hold a belief because it seems obvious or self-evident model of authority people hold a belief because some respected source has said it is so model of science people hold a belief because scientific studies have proved it through the scientific method theory, hypotheses, testing scientific method theory a collection of assertions that specify how and why variables are related as well as the conditions in which they should be related hypothesis a written prediction that specifies a relationship between variables correlation shows a relationship between two variables causal inference establishing that one variable causes another meta-analysis calculates a weighted average of all correlations found in studies of a particular relationship evidence-based management a perspective that argues that scientific findings should be the foundation of management education