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Transcript of Welcome to Organizational Behavior. INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR.
What is organization?What is organization?
• A collection of people who work together to achieve individual and organizational goals
What a person bring with him/ her, What a person bring with him/ her, when working with an organizationwhen working with an organization
E.g: - Skills- Knowledge- Culture- Perception/behavior- Wisdom- Experiences- Relationship OR- 4 hs = Head, Heart, Hand, Hope
UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
THETHE “ “BIG FIVE” FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONSBIG FIVE” FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS Dimension People who score “high” on this dimension tend to be more
conscientiousness
Emotional stability
Openness to experience
Agreeableness
Extroversion
Careful, dependable, self-disciplined
Relaxed, secure, calm
Sensitive, flexible, creative, curious
Courteous, good-natured, empathic, caring
Outgoing, talkative, sociable, assertive
What is organizational BehaviorWhat is organizational Behavior
• The study of factors that affect how individuals and groups act in organizations and how organizations respond to their environment.
• Organizational Behavior is a multi-disciplinary assets:
- Psychology,
- Management,
- Social Science,
- Anthropology,
- Organizational Psychology and
- Human Resource Management (HRM).
PERCEPTION PROCESSPERCEPTION PROCESS
Model of the perception process
ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI
Feeling Hearing Seeing Smelling Testing
Selective attention
Perceptual O.R.G and interpretation
Emotions and behavior
The process of filtering information received by
our sense.
( make sense of it )
KEY QUESTIONS
• How OB benefits managers?
• What skills needed for manager?
• What are the key challenges for manager, When learning about OB?
How OB benefits managers?How OB benefits managers?
• Helps managers to use the tools to understand the complexity of the behavior of an organization.
• Have the capacity to manage changes when necessary
What skills needed for What skills needed for manager?manager?
• Conceptual skills: Analysing and diagnose a situation: Planning and organizing need high level of conceptual skills.
• Human skills: Human skills: Ability to work with, lead and control the behavior and the ability to learn acquired skills
• Technical skills
What are the key challenges for What are the key challenges for manager, after learning OB?manager, after learning OB?
• The changing social and cultural environment:• Age Fairness & justice?• Gender Flexibility?• Race Decision making?
Ethnicity &
• Religion Performance?• Sexual orientation,• Social economic background• Capacity disability
• 2. The evolving of global environment
• 3. Advancing information technology
• 4. Shifting work and employment relationship.
Understanding and Managing Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior Requires Organizational Behavior Requires
the study of:the study of:
Individual in organization
Group &TeamProcess
OrganizationalProcess
OverviewOverview
• Each member of an organization has his or her own style and ways of behaving.
• Effectively working with others requires an
understanding and appreciation of how people differ from one another.
• Managers needs to understand individual differences because they have an impact on the feelings, thoughts, and behavior of each member of an organization.
The Nature Of PersonalityThe Nature Of Personality• Personality: Is the pattern of a way in which a
person feels, thinks, and behaves. • Personality has been shown to influence career
choice, job satisfaction, stress, leadership, and some aspects of job performance.
• People personalities can be described in variety
of way. Some people seems to be perfectionist, can be critical, impatient, demanding, and intense, always smile, have fun around, shy, and quiet.
Determinants Of Personality:Determinants Of Personality:
PersonalityNature
Biological heritageNurture
Life experiences
The Big Five Model Of The Big Five Model Of Personality, Personality,
• Extraversion or Positive affectivity: The tendency to experience positive emotional states and feel good about oneself and the world around one; also called positive affectivity.
• Extraverts: People high on extraversion scale-tend to be sociable, affectionate, and friendly.
• Introverts: People low on extraversion scale- are less likely to experience positive emotional state and have fewer social interaction with other
Neuroticism: Neuroticism:
• Neuroticism or Negative affectivity: The tendency to experience negative emotional states and view oneself and the world around one negatively; also called negative affectivity.
Individuals who are high on neuroticism are more likely to experience negative moods at work, feel stressed and emotion, and generally have a negative orientation toward the work situations.
Agreeableness Agreeableness
• Agreeableness: Is the trait that captures the distinction between individuals who get along well with other people and those who do not.
• Likeability in general and the ability to care for other and to be affectionate characterize individuals who are high on agreeableness.
• Individuals low on agreeableness are antagonistic, mistrustful, unsympathetic, uncooperative, and rude.
Conscientiousness Conscientiousness
• Conscientiousness: Is the extent to which an individual is careful, scrupulous, and persevering.
• Individuals high on conscientiousness are organized and have a lot of self-discipline.
• Individuals low on conscientiousness may lack
direction and self-discipline.
Openness to Experience:Openness to Experience:• Openness to experience: Is the captures the extent to which an
individual is open to a wide variety of stimuli, has broad interests, and is willing to take risks ask opposed to being narrow-mined and cautious.
• For jobs that change frequently, require innovation, or involve considerable risk, individuals who are high on openness to experience may have an advantage.
• Although openness to experience clearly is an advantage for entrepreneurs and performing jobs that require innovation, organizations also need people to perform jobs that do not allow much opportunity for originality, and sometime afraid to take the risk that employee high on openness to experience may thrive on.
Other Organizationally Other Organizationally Relevant Personality TraitsRelevant Personality Traits
• Organizationally Relevant Personality Traits:
• Locus of control• Self monitoring• Self Esteem• Type A and Type B personality• Need for achievement• Need for affiliation• Need for power
Locus of controlLocus of control
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• Internal locus of control: Describes people who believe that ability, effort, or their own actions determine what happens to them. mnusSeCOelI®TwsßIxøÜn®tUvTIBwgxøÜn
Self-Monitoring Self-Monitoring ®Kb;®KgxøÜnÉg®Kb;®KgxøÜnÉg
• Self-monitoring is the extent to which people try to control the way they present themselves to others.
• High self-monitors want their behavior to be socially acceptable and are attuned to any social cues that signal appropriate or inappropriate behavior.
• Low self-monitors are not particularly sensitive to cues indicating acceptable behavior, nor are overly concerned about behaving in a situationally appropriate manner, guided by their own attitudes, beliefs, feeling and principles and are not too concerned about what other think of their behavior.
Self-Esteem Self-Esteem eGaytémøxøÜnÉgeGaytémøxøÜnÉg
• Self-esteem is the extent to which people have pride in themselves and their capabilities.
• Individuals with high self-esteem think they are generally capable and worthy people who can deal with most situations.
• Individuals with low self-esteem question their self-own worth, doubt their capabilities, and are apprehensive about their ability to succeed in different endeavors.
Type A and Type B Type A and Type B personalitiespersonalities
• Type A: A person who has an intense desire to achieve, is extremely competitive, and has a strong sense of urgency.
• Type B: A person who tends to be easygoing and relaxed.
• Study found that “Type A managers more likely to have conflicts with their subordinates and with co-workers than that of type B managers”
Needs for Achievement Needs for Achievement ®tUvkarPaBeCaKC½y®tUvkarPaBeCaKC½y
• Individual with a high needs for achievement have a special desire to perform challenging tasks well and to meet their own personal standards for excellence.
• They like to be in situations in which they are personally responsible for what happen, like to set clear goals for themselves, are willing to take personal responsibility for outcome, and like to receive performance feedback.
Need for affiliation Need for affiliation ®tUvkaresckþI®sT,aj;®tUvkaresckþI®sT,aj;
• Individuals with a high need for affiliation are especially concerned about establishing and maintaining good relations with other people.
• They not only want to be liked by other but also want everyone to get along with everyone else. They like working in groups, tend to be sensitive to other people’s feeling, and avoid taking actions that would result in interpersonal conflict.
• But they are less effective in situations in which they need to evaluate other because it may hard for them to give negative feedback to a co-worker or subordinate- a task that might disrupt interpersonal relations.
Need for power Need for power ®tUvkarGMNac®tUvkarGMNac
• Individuals with a high need for power have a strong desire to exert emotional and behavioral control or influence over others.
• These individuals are especially likely to be found in managerial jobs and leadership positions, which required one person to exert influence over others.
• Individuals with high need for power may actually be more effective as leaders than those with low need for power.
What combination of the needs for achievement, What combination of the needs for achievement, affiliation, and power results in higher managerial affiliation, and power results in higher managerial
motivation and performance?motivation and performance?
• Research suggests that “managers should have a high need for achievement and power. A high need for affiliation might not necessarily be a good quality in managers because they may try too hard to be liked by their subordinates instead of trying to lead them to higher performance”
Nature of AbilityNature of Ability
Ability: the mental and physical Ability: the mental and physical capacity of a person to do capacity of a person to do
something.something.
Two basic types of ability affect performance:
1. Cognitive or mental ability and 2. Physical ability.
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BUEksnñidæanEp¥kelIkarGegátnigvaytémø• Ability to see relationships:
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Physical Ability : Physical Ability : smtßPaBxagpøÚvkaysmtßPaBxagpøÚvkay
• Two types of physical abilities:
1.Motor: A motor skill is the ability to physically manipulate objects in an environment
2. Physical skills. A physical skill is a person’s fitness and strengths.
Where do abilities come from Where do abilities come from and how are they measured?and how are they measured?
• Like personality, both cognitive ability and physical ability are determined by nature (of Biological Heritage) and nurture (life experiences).
• General intelligence is determined by the genes we inherit from our parents (nature) and by situational factors (nurture)
The determinants of Cognitive The determinants of Cognitive and Physical abilitiesand Physical abilities
NatureBiological heritage
Cognitive andPhysical abilities
Nurture Education, practice
and exercise
Cognitive and physical abilities can degenerate or become impaired because of disease, drug, or alcohol abuse, excessive level of stress, or fatigue. So it is important to know what he/she is capable of doing, and know why the abilities may become impaired.
Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence: bBaØaxagpøÚvGarmµNbBaØaxagpøÚvGarmµN__
• Emotional Intelligence: is the ability to understand and manage one’s
own feelings and emotions and the feelings and the emotions of others.
• People differ in term of the extent to which they know how they are feeling, why they feeling that way, and their ability to manage those feelings. Similarly, they differ in their ability to understand what other people are feeling and why and their ability to influence or manage the feelings of other.
The management of ability in The management of ability in organizationorganization
There are three fundamental ways to manage ability in organizations to ensure that this match-up happens:
Selection: Selecting individuals who have the abilities they need.
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Placement: Accurately match each employee to a job that will capitalize on his or her abilities.
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Training: An effective means of enhancing and improving employees’ abilities. pþl;karhVwkhVWneGay)an sm®sbtamCMnajénkargar