INDE 6335

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INDE 6335 ENGINEERING ADMINISTRATION INTRODUCTION
TO ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Dr. Christopher A. Chung Dept. of Industrial
Engineering

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AGENDA

• Administrative Issues
• Introduction to organizational behavior
• Project
• Homework

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ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES
ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES

• Groups
• Seating Chart
• Current Events

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INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES

• Historical roots of organizational behavior
• Define Organizational Behavior
• Individual and group behavior
• Structure and design of organizations
• Process of organizations

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HISTORICAL ROOTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

• No systematic studies prior to 1928
• Hawthorne studies
• Illumination
• Relay assembly working conditions
• Employee interviews
• Bank wiring group pay
• So called Hawthorne effect
• Hawthorne studies attracted subsequent research
  into organizational issues

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DEFINING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

What is an organization?
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DEFINING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

What organizations formal and informal are you a
member of?
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THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

• Levels of examination
• Multidisciplinary
• Humanistic orientation
• Performance oriented
• External environment
• Scientific Method
• Application oriented

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ALL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE

• Individual behavior
• Group behavior
• Structure / design
• Processes

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INDIVIDUAL OB ISSUES

• Individual characteristics
• Individual motivation
• Rewards and evaluation

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GROUP OB ISSUES

• Why and how groups form
• Intergroup behavior
• Power and politics
• Leadership theory and models
• Leadership emerging concepts and approaches

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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND DESIGN ISSUE

• Job design
• Organizational structures
• Organizational design

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ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES

• Communication processes
• Decision processes

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HOMEWORK/PROJECT

• Select a topic related to organizational behavior
• Develop a set of hypotheses
• Design and develop a survey
• Administer the survey
• Analyze survey data (to a degree)
• Present results

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NEXT CLASS HOMEWORK

• Resume
• MBTI