Organizational behavior

Concept
organizational behavior is the combination of
two words
(1) Organization

(2) Behavior
 Definition of OB

 “A field of study that investigates the impact

that individuals, groups, and structure have on
behavior within organizations for the purpose
of applying such knowledge toward improving
an organization’s effectiveness”
- by Robbins.
 Organizational behavior is a branch of the social
sciences that seeks to build theories that can be
applied to predicting, understanding, and
controlling behavior in work organizations”.

--- by Aldag & Brief

“it is concerned with the understanding, prediction

and control of human behavior in organization”
--- by Callahan
 Feature of OB
 A field of study
 An Applied science

 Humanistic and optimistic

 Oriented towards Organizational Objective

 A total system approach.

THANKYOU

ANUJ SHARMA