 Organization

 Organization Structure
 Organizational System
 Organizational Culture
 Organizational Behavior
 Organizational Behavior System
 Organizational Climate
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.
 Bring together resources to achieve desired goals
and outcomes
 Produce goods and services efficiently
 Facilitate innovation
 Use modern manufacturing and information
technologies
 Adapt to and influence a changing environment
 Create value for owners, customers and employees
 Accommodate ongoing challenges of diversity,
ethics, and the motivation and coordination of
employees
 Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study and
application of knowledge about how people,
individuals, and groups act in organizations.
It does this by taking a system approach.
That is, it interprets people-organization
relationships in terms of the whole person,
whole group, whole organization, and whole
social system. Its purpose is to build better
relationships by achieving human objectives,
organizational objectives, and social
objectives.
 A field of study that investigates how individuals, groups
and structure affect and are affected by behavior within
organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge
toward improving an organization’s effectiveness.
 As an applied science is a scientific discipline in which a
larch number of research studies and conceptual
developments constantly add to its knowledge base.
 It provides a useful set of tools at many levels of analysis
to help managers look at the behavior of individuals within
the environment.
 It also aids their understanding of the complexities which
affect the interpersonal relations of dynamics of
relationships within small groups, both formal and
informal.
 The nature of study of organizational behaviour is
investigative to establish cause and effect relationship.
 To describe
 Systematically how people behave as they interact with one
another.
 To understand
 Why people behave in varied manners.
 Managers should be able to understand the reasons behind
the actions of their employees
 To predict
 Predict future employee behavior so that an appropriate
course of action may be employed
 To control
 To control and develop human activity at work