Individual behaviour

Behaviour of an individual employee is influenced by several factors like

the individuals mental make-up, family background ,educational
background, social and cultural background, geographical region,
personality traits, values ,attitudes , opinions ,e.t.c.. Individual behaviour
studied through perception, personality, job satisfaction and motivation.
perception
Perception refers to a complex cognitive process that yield a unique
picture of the world may be quite different from reality. Individuals
behave based on their perceptual world or impressions.
Personality:
Personality Is the sum total of wage in which any individual reacts and
interacts with others hereditary factors, environmental factors ,situation
factors determine personality .
 values:
Values are the basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or a end-
state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or
converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence.
Attitudes:
Attitudes are evaluative statements favorable or unfavorable conserving
objects ,people or events .
Job satisfaction:
Refers to a persons feeling of satisfaction the job, which acts as a motivation
to work.
Motivation:
Motivation is the process that account for an individuals intensity , direction
and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.
Learning:
Learning is relatively permanent change in the behaviour that occurs as a
result of experience.
Group behaviour
An integrated and comprehensive behaviour of people in a group behaviour
is studied through group dynamic items communication, power and politics
Group dynamic:
Groups are formed with a specific purpose. They exist for some items until
the purpose achieve and then disband or adjurn .groups are formed and
informed .other types of groups include-command groups, task groups,
interest groups, friends groups .Groups behave and function based on its
norms.
Team work:
Team work is a group whose individual effort result in a performance that is
greater than the sum of individual inputs. Different types of teams include
problem solving, self manage work team, cross functional team and virtual
terms.
 Power and politics
Power refers to the ability of the people to acquire the resource and
award them t various people in organisations.
Communication:
Communication is transferring of information and understanding the
meaning of it. Communication may be formal or informal, down word,
upward, horizontal and cross-wise.
Leadership:
Leadership is the ability to influence a group towards the achievement
of goals .leadership styles include autocratic style , benevolent
autocratic style , participative style and democratic style.
Decision making:
Decision making is developing alternative solutions to a problem and
selecting the best solution from the alternative solutions.
Organisational factors:
Organisational structure is dividing, grouping and coordinating the
job tasks . job tasks may be structured based on departments,
functions, geographical areas, products or service.
Organisational theory:
Organisational theory refers to various models of structuring work
activities and jobs in order to build relationships among people, jobs,
goals, etc.
Organisational culture:
Organisational culture is a pattern of basic assumption invented
discovered or deployed by a given group as it learns to cope with its
problems of internal adoption and internal integration that has worked
well enough to be considered valuable and there for to be taught to
new members as the correct way to receive think and feel in relation
to those problems.
 Organisational effectiveness:
Organisational effectiveness refers to selecting the right objectives and goals
depending upon the environmental social goals of the country in which the
company is operating.
Organisational behaviour
Organisational behaviour is studying the behaviour of individuals and
groups. OB studies the behaviour systematically, how people behave under a
variety of situations and conditions.it also studies why people behave as they
do. Thus, it identifies the reasons for the behaviour.
OB predicts the future behaviour of employees. Managers based on the
past behaviour of the employees, traits, values and future situations predict
the future behaviour of employees.
If the predict behaviour is not in accordance with the requirements of
organisational statergies, managers mould the employee behaviour towards
organisational requirement by changing the reward system, organisation
structure, leadership styles, group norms etc .Thus, managers manage
behaviour