HRM 601 Organizational Behavior

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HRM 601 Organizational Behavior

• Session 1
• Course Overview, Historical Perspective,
  Research Methods

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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

• A field of study
• that uses concepts, theories, and methods of
  behavioral sciences
• to understand the behavior of individuals and
  groups in organizations
• and applies the knowledge towards improving
  organizational effectiveness

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Building Competencies

• Building a knowledge base of theories and
  research in organizational behavior
• Building of analytical and diagnostic skills for
  application of theories to organizational
  problems

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Foundations of Organizational Behavior

• Individual (psychological) influences
• Group (social-psychological) influences
• Organizational (sociological, political)
  influences

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Individual Influences

• Perception
• Personality and attitudes
• Learning
• Motivation

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Group Influences

• Group processes
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Power conflict
• Leadership

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Organizational Influences

• Design of organizations
• Organizational environments culture
• Organizational change development

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KEY INFLUENCES ON OB

• Early industrial engineering studies
• Frederick Taylor
• Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
• The Hawthorne studies
• Recent challenges for OB
• Technology
• International competition

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WHY DO RESEARCH

• To gather a body of information on to develop a
• Systematic body of knowledge to aid in building
  theories
• Contradicting theories
• Suggest new theories
• To understand and explain behavior

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RESEARCH DESIGNS

• Experimental designs
• Correlational and survey designs
• Case studies and focus groups

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EVALUATING RESEARCH

• Internal validity -- Can we be confident that the
  outcomes of the study resulted from the factor
  being manipulated or might the result be do to
  some unmeasured factor
• External validity -- Can we generalize the
  finding of this study to a larger population or
  is our sample so restricted that the findings
  relate only to a specific groups