Concept of Organizational Behavior
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Description also available in video format (attached below), for better experience use your desktop. Introduction · Study of organization and of the collection of people working within the organization · Study of human behavior within the organization settings · Study and application of knowledge about how the actions of people within the organization Nature of OB · A field of study and applied science · Interdisciplinary approach · Humanistic · Optimistic · Objectives oriented · System approach Evolution of OB · Robert Owen (1800) o A young factory owner who refused to employ children o Taught workers to improve working conditions o Father of personnel management · Andrew Ure (1903) o Provides welfare facilities to the workers o Value of human factor in manufacturing o Began to pay accident compensation · F.W