Organizational Behavior and Management

- Overview

Organizational Behavior (OB) is: “The study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and organizations, and organizations themselves. Organizational behavior is an important part of human resources, although it is embedded throughout the company.

Organizational behavior (OB) developed from applied behavior analysis and involves understanding disciplines such as psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, economics, and political science.

Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) applies organizational behavioral principles to enable businesses to operate more effectively. The goal is to understand individual, team and company behavior to improve productivity and encourage a positive work culture.

Managers evaluate how individuals function in their positions, work within teams, perform tasks as a team, and how all of these pieces fit together to understand the effectiveness of the company as a whole.

Please refer to the following for more information:

• Wikipedia: Organizational Behavior
• Wikipedia: Organizational Behavior Management

- The Principles of Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior (OB) is the academic study of how people interact within groups. The principles of OB are applied primarily in attempts to help businesses operate more effectively.

OB is the study of how people interact in group settings. This field of study includes areas of research dedicated to improving job performance, increasing job satisfaction, promoting innovation, and encouraging leadership.

The Hawthorne Effect, which describes the way test subjects' behavior may change when they know they are being observed, is the best-known study of organizational behavior.

OB is a foundation of corporate human resources, encompassing elements such as employee retention, engagement, training, and culture. OB is a subset of organizational theory which studies a more holistic way of structuring a company and managing its resources.

The study of OB can be divided into at least three ways: 

• Individuals in organizations (micro level)
• Working group (meso level)
• How organizations behave (macro level)

Chester Barnard (an American business executive) recognized that individuals behave differently when they are in organizational roles than when they are separated from the organization. 

- Organizational Behavior Research

Organizational behavior (OB) researchers primarily study the behavior of individuals in their organizational roles. One of the main goals of OB research is to revitalize organizational theory and develop better concepts of organizational life. 

The study of OB encompasses areas of study dedicated to improving job performance, increasing job satisfaction, promoting innovation, and encouraging leadership. Each has its own recommended actions, such as restructuring the team, revising the compensation structure, or changing performance evaluation methods.

The focus of OB tends to be on employee productivity. For example, OB research shows that employees who feel valued and appreciated tend to be more motivated and productive, thereby increasing an organization's bottom line. 

However, OB can also focus on how organizations can better manage, change and improve behavior to achieve desired outcomes (i.e. productivity, employee well-being or workplace satisfaction).

- The Key Elements of Organizational Behavior

Key elements of organizational behavior (OB) include people, structure, technology and environment. 

• People: They constitute the internal and social systems of the organization. People include employees, organizational stakeholders (people affected by organizational actions), and groups. These groups can be large or small, formal or informal, formal or informal.
• Structure: It is the set of formal and informal rules and practices that govern how work is done in an organization. It also includes policies, procedures, guidelines, hierarchies, communication networks, etc.
• Technology: It constitutes the tools used by the organization to achieve its goals and includes machines, work processes, software, tools, gadgets, etc.
• Environment: It can be defined as the social factors external to the organization that influence its employees. It includes cultural, economic, technological, political and legal factors

 - Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)

Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) is the study and application of applied behavior analysis in organizations focused on assessing and changing the work environment to improve employee performance and business results as well as employee engagement.

Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) is a branch of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) that applies behavioral analysis principles and emergency management techniques to change behavior in organizational settings.

Through these principles and behavioral assessment, OBM seeks to analyze and apply antecedents, what affects an individual's behavior before an action occurs, and consequences, what happens to someone's behavior, to interventions that influence behavior related to mission and key goals. and its staff.

Such interventions have been proven through research to be effective in improving areas of public organizations including employee productivity, feedback, safety, and the organization's overall morale.