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1. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIORORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
S T E P H E N P. R O B B I N SS T E P H E N P. R O B B I N S
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What Is Organizational
Behavior
Chapter One

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What Managers Do
Managerial Activities
•Make decisions
•Allocate resources
•Direct activities of others
to attain goals
Managerial Activities
•Make decisions
•Allocate resources
•Direct activities of others
to attain goals
Managers (or administrators)
Individuals who achieve goals through other people.

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Where Managers Work
Organization
A consciously coordinated social unit, composed of
two or more people, that functions on a relatively
continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of
goals.

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Management Functions
Planning
A process that includes defining goals, establishing strategy, and
developing plans to coordinate activities.
Organizing
Determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the
tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom, and where decisions
are to be made.
Leading
A function that includes motivating employees, directing others,
selecting the most effective communication channels, and resolving
conflicts.
Controlling
Monitoring activities to ensure they are being accomplished as
planned and correcting any significant deviations.

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Management Skills
Technical skills
The ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise.
Human skills
The ability to work with, understand, and motivate other
people, both individually and in groups.
Conceptual Skills
The mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations.

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Effective Versus Successful Managerial
Activities (Luthans)
1.Traditional management
•Decision making, planning, and controlling
2.Communication
•Exchanging routine information and processing
paperwork
3.Human resource management
•Motivating, disciplining, managing conflict, staffing,
and training
4.Networking
•Socializing, politicking, and interacting with others

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Enter Organizational Behavior
Organizational behavior (OB)
A field of study that investigates the impact that
individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior
within organizations, for the purpose of applying such
knowledge toward improving an organization’s
effectiveness.

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Replacing Intuition with Systematic Study
Systematic study
Looking at relationships, attempting to attribute
causes and effects, and drawing conclusions based
on scientific evidence.
Provides a means to predict behaviors.
Intuition
A feeling not necessarily supported by research.

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Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field
Psychology
The science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change
the behavior of humans and other animals.
Sociology
The study of people in relation to their fellow human beings.
Social Psychology
An area within psychology that blends concepts from psychology and
sociology and that focuses on the influence of people on one another.
Anthropology
The study of societies to learn about human beings and their
activities.
Political Science
The study of the behavior of individuals and groups within a
political environment.

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There Are Few Absolutes in OB
Contingency variables
Situational factors: variables that moderate the
relationship between two or more other variables and
improve the correlation.

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Challenges and Opportunities for OB
Responding to Globalization
–Increased foreign assignments
–Working with people from different cultures
–Coping with anti-capitalism backlash
–Overseeing movement of jobs to countries with low-
cost labor
Managing Workforce Diversity
–Embracing diversity
–Changing U.S. demographics
–Implications for managers
•Recognizing and responding to differences

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Challenges and Opportunities for OB (cont’d)
Improving Quality and Productivity
–Quality management (QM)
–Process reengineering
Responding to the Labor Shortage
–Changing work force demographics
–Fewer skilled laborers
–Early retirements and older workers
Improving Customer Service
–Increased expectation of service quality
–Customer-responsive cultures

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What Is Quality Management?
1.Intense focus on the customer.
2.Concern for continuous improvement.
3.Improvement in the quality of everything
the organization does.
4.Accurate measurement.
5.Empowerment of employees.

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Improving Quality and Productivity
Quality management (QM)
–The constant attainment of customer satisfaction
through the continuous improvement of all
organizational processes.
–Requires employees to rethink what they do and
become more involved in workplace decisions.
Process reengineering
–Asks managers to reconsider how work would be done
and their organization structured if they were starting
over.
–Instead of making incremental changes in processes,
reengineering involves evaluating every process in
terms of its contribution.

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Challenges and Opportunity for OB (cont’d)
Improving People Skills
Empowering People
Stimulating Innovation and Change
Coping with “Temporariness”
Working in Networked Organizations
Helping Employees Balance Work/Life Conflicts
Improving Ethical Behavior

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Basic OB Model, Stage I
Model
An abstraction of reality.
A simplified representation of some real-world
phenomenon.

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The Dependent Variables
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y
Dependent variable
A response that is affected by an independent variable.

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The Dependent Variables (cont’d)
Productivity
A performance measure that includes
effectiveness and efficiency.
Effectiveness
Achievement of goals.
Efficiency
The ratio of effective output to the input
required to achieve it.

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The Dependent Variables (cont’d)
Absenteeism
The failure to report to work.
Turnover
The voluntary and involuntary permanent withdrawal
from an organization.
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)
Discretionary behavior that is not part of an
employee’s formal job requirements, but that
nevertheless promotes the effective functioning of the
organization.

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The Dependent Variables (cont’d)
Job satisfaction
A general attitude toward one’s job, the difference
between the amount of reward workers receive and the
amount they believe they should receive.

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The presumed cause of some change in the dependent
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