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EMBA 709
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
COURSE OBJECTIVES
A cognitive understanding of behavior in
different contexts and
An ability to undertake those activities.
Methodology:
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Topical Lecture
Abstract Presentations
Experiential Exercise
Case Analysis
COURSE PHILOSOPHY
"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the
conditions in which they can learn."
Albert Einstein
"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember,
involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb
“Executives learn best from one another”
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COURSE PHILOSOPHY
"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the
conditions in which they can learn."
Albert Einstein
"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember,
involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb
“Executives learn best from one another”
COURSE EXPECTATIONS
Reading
Participation 30%
Case Analyses 25%
 You choose the four
 3 of the first 5
 Jensen Shoes 1 & 2 = 1 Case
Final 25%
Group Project 20%
INTRODUCTION TO
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR
The multi-disciplinary study of people, groups,
and their behavior and interactions in
organizations.
Why?
Facilitates predicting employee behavior
Including employee responses to managerial actions.
Facilitates understanding employee behavior
Facilitates maintaining and changing employee behavior
What influences behavior?
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
 Soldiering
 People are rational, economic
beings that will act on their own
interests.
 Goal?
 Four steps
 Break the job down
 Scientifically select and train
 Repetition
 Supervise employees
 Monitor employees
 Piecework
 Plan the work
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT:
EVALUATION
Limitations?
Contributions?
Human Relations Movement:
The Hawthorne Studies
ILLUMINATION
STUDY
Tested the impact of
lighting on productivity
 Uncovered the
“Hawthorne Effect”
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Workers produced more
because managers paid
attention to them.
Shifted management
focus from purely
economic to humanistic
WIRING ROOM
STUDY
Tested the influence of
individual and group
behavior
 Workers’ output
influenced by:
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Group norms
 Social pressures
 Informal organization
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Impetus for field of
organizational behavior
HUMAN RELATIONS
ASSUMPTIONS
Individual attitudes and
behaviors are important
Organizations are social
systems
Our behavior is shaped by the
social context
Informal work group may
have a stronger impact on
behavior than management
actions and economic rewards
Jobs should enable people to
develop and grow
Basic Principle
Job satisfaction = Productivity
McCGREGOR’S THEORY
THEORY Y
THEORY X
HUMAN RELATIONS:
EVALUATION
Limitations?
Contributions?
MODERN THEORIES
Contingency Perspective
Systems Perspective
Interrelated elements functioning as a whole
Organizations are open systems
Inputs
Process
Environment
Outputs
THE ORGANIZATION’S ENVIRONMENT
The Individual
•Skills & Abilities
•Perception
•Personality
•Attitudes
•Values
Interpersonal
Influence and
Group Behavior
Group
behavior
and work teams
Intergroup
conflict and
negotiations
Organizational
power and
politics
Communication
INDIVIDUAL
BEHAVIOR IN THE
ORGANIZATION
Organizational
Processes
Leadership
Communications
Decision
making
Reward System
Job Design