Organizational Behavior (Chapters 1-8) (2023/2024) Rated A

Organizational Behavior (Chapters 1-8) (2023/2024) Rated A Organizational Behavior Field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and improving attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations Primary Outcomes Job Performance and Organizational Commitment Individual Mechanisms that directly affect job performance and organizational commitment job satisfaction, stress, motivation, trust/justice/ ethics, learning and decision making Resource-based view of an organization -what makes resources valuable/create profits for firms -Looking at financial resources and OB resources (knowledge, ability, wisdom, image, culture, goodwill) what makes resources valuable -rare, inimitable (history, numerous small decisions, socially complex resources) -good people are rare and inimitable Rule of 1/8 -½ organizations don't believe OB matters -½ make singular changes but need more systematic changes -½ won't persist long enough (1/2 of ½ of ½ is 1/8) Different ways of knowing things -Experience: consistent with their own experiences -Intuition: just stands to reason -Authority: because official agency said so -Science: scientific studies replicate results (the best one because have proof) Theories -inspire hypothesis -system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained -tell story: about who/where/when/why/how Hypothesis -proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation Correlations -measure of statistical relationships How to establish causal relationships -need two variables to be correlated -presumed cause to precede presumed effect -no alternative explanation can exist Meta analysis takes correlations and calculates weighted averages evidence based management scientific findings should form foundation for management education Job Performance value of the set of employee behaviors that contribute positively or negatively to organizational goals and accomplishments Three categories of behaviors task performance, citizenship behavior, and counterproductive behavior Task performance definition transforming organizational resources into goods or services organization produces Task performance categories -routine task vs adaptive task -also creative tasks: dawn of creative age, looks at degree to which individuals develop ideas or physical outcomes that are novel and useful O*Net online database with characteristics of most jobs