Organizational Behavior: Key Concepts and Applications
What is Organizational Behavior?
Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study of what people think, feel, and do in an organization. Organizational effectiveness refers to an organization’s ability to transform inputs into outputs while maintaining a healthy culture.
Values and Corporate Social Responsibility
Values are stable, evaluative beliefs that guide people towards specific outcomes. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to organizational activities that benefit society and the environment
Read MoreUnderstanding Uncertainty Avoidance in Cultures
Uncertainty Avoidance Index
Hofstede’s Uncertainty Avoidance dimension reflects the extent to which a society willingly embraces or avoids the unknown. Uncertainty Avoidance deals with a society’s tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. It can be defined as the degree to which people feel threatened by uncertainty and try to avoid those situations. Culture possesses either weak (low) or strong (high) Uncertainty Avoidance (UA).
Hofstede stated that this feeling is expressed through nervous stress
Read MoreTeam Development Stages and Organizational Citizenship
Tuckman’s Model of Team Development
The life cycle of a team is used to understand what is going on with a team, to understand what stage they are at, and to better identify why issues within a team are occurring. The team life cycle describes the ways individuals come together to form a team and the stages they go through. Forming a team takes time, and members often go through recognizable stages as they change from being a collection of strangers to a united group with common goals.
Stages of Team
Read MoreCultural Dimensions: Saving Face, Ethnocentrism, and Hofstede’s Model
Saving Face and Cultural Concepts
1. Saving Face
It means preserving someone’s dignity and social standing, especially in difficult situations. It involves giving feedback in private, using indirect communication, framing criticism positively, and being culturally sensitive. Understanding and respecting this concept is crucial for effective cross-cultural communication and maintaining positive relationships in business interactions.
2. Ethnocentrism
It consists of applying one’s own culture or ethnicity
Organizational Behavior: Key Concepts and Theories
Syllabus and Intro
Understand the assignments for this course and how to submit them.
Know the difference between a performance and learning orientation and why it matters.
What is plagiarism?
What are the elements of persuasive writing?
What is the scientific method and how does it apply to organizational behavior?
What does a contingency perspective to organizational behavior mean?
What is the difference between hard and soft skills and when might they most matter?
Recognize and be able to distinguish