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Roles relate to the particular place and functions of an individual. These can be thought of
as group-based categories of position and activity.
Norms are attitudinal and behavioural prescriptions associated with these roles or
categories. They create expectations about how a person or group of people ought to think,
feel and behave.
Values are higher-level principles that are intended to guide this behaviour and the
organizations activity as a whole.
Features of Organization:
A group with a social identity, so that it has psychological meaning for all the
individuals who belong to it;
Characterized by coordination so that the behaviour of individuals is arranged and
structured rather than idiosyncratic;
Goal directed, so that this structure is oriented towards a particular outcome.
Theory of Scientific Management- the management of workers and their work was an exact
science and that the job of any manager was to perfect and implement that science to
discover and implement the one best way of doing any particular job.
Organizational Behaviour:
The field of study that seeks increased knowledge of all aspects of behaviour in
organizational settings through the use of scientific methods.
OR
A field of study that investigates the impact of individuals, groups, and structure on
behaviour within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward
improving an organizations effectiveness.