Organizational Behavior
In This paper I will describe the key concepts and terminology of organizational behavior, organizational, culture, diversity, communication, organizational effectiveness and efficiency, and organizational learning.
Organizational behavior is the application of knowledge about how people, individuals, and groups act in organizations. It does this by taking a system approach. That is, it interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and whole social system. Its purpose is to build better relationships by achieving human objectives, organizational objectives, and social objectives.
Organizational culture is the personality of the organization. Culture is comprised of the assumptions, values, norms and tangible signs of organization members and their behaviors. Members of an organization soon come to sense the particular culture of an organization. Culture is one of those terms that's difficult to express distinctly, but everyone knows it when they sense it. For example, the culture of a large, for-profit corporation is quite different than that of a hospital which is quite different that that of a university. You can tell the culture of an organization by looking at the arrangement of furniture, what they brag about, what members wear, etc.
Diversity has evolved to include an extensive set of issues. The traditional policies, programs, and legal mandates of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action are still the first and most important steps to achieving diversity in the workplace. But diversity is a broader concept than ethnicity, race, and gender. Diversity has gone beyond legal mandates and has become an environment that is inclusive of all groups, maximizes the potential of all employees, and values the variety of perspectives all employees bring to the workplace at the scientific, technical, management, and administrative levels.
Communication, many of the...
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