Organizational Behavior: Concepts, Skills and Best Practices

Description

Organizational Behaviour is a comprehensive textbook designed to meet the requirements of graduate and postgraduate management students. Organizational behavior is the academic study of how people interact within groups. The principles of the study of organizational behavior are applied primarily in attempts to make businesses operate more effectively. The study of organizational behavior includes areas of research dedicated to improving job performance, increasing job satisfaction, promoting innovation, and encouraging leadership and is a foundation of corporate human resources. As a multidisciplinary field, organizational behavior has been influenced by developments in a number of allied disciplines including sociology, psychology, economics, and engineering as well as by the experience of practitioners. Personality, perception, learning, attitude, family background, training, motivation, job satisfaction, performance appraisal, leadership effectiveness, norms, values and ethics are the factors which affect the individual behaviour. Group dynamics, communication, organisational environment, individual and organisational culture affect group behaviour. Organisational structure, power & politics, status, relation with juniors & seniors, conflicts and culture affect the individual behaviour in the organisation. The book also dwells on a very important aspect of management that is the cultural aspects of organizations and their relationship with production strategies. It is hoped that the book will provide ample material on organizational behaviour and fulfil the needs of the syllabus for MBA.