ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR

Value creation for stake holders

Organization Behavior (OB) studies individuals and groups in organizaiton

Shamrock Organization is an organizational structure where a core of essential executives and workers are supported by outside contractors and part-time help. The shamrock leaf shape is a symbolic representation of an organization with three types of workforce, having a main body and connected lobes that together form a whole. The term was invented by Irish academic and management author/philosopher Charles Handy

Proxemics is a subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (para language), and chronemics (structure of time).

 Geert Hofstede's theory of cultural dimensions describes the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior, using a structure derived from factor analysis.
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Personality Theories:


Carl Jung: Social traits

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions

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Aptitude---- Capacity to learn somehting

Alderfer ERG ( esteem, relatedness, growth ) theory

The halo effect or halo error is a cognitive bias in which one's judgments of a person’s character can be influenced by one's overall impression of him or her.The halo effect was given its name by psychologist Edward Thorndike


McClelland's Need Theory, created by psychologist David McClelland, is a motivational model that attempts to explain how the needs for achievement, power. and affiliation affect the actions of people from a managerial context
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Job enlargement--Horizontal loading (More and different tasks)
Job enrichment

 Job enrichment is an attempt to motivate employees by giving them the opportunity to use the range of their abilities. It is an idea that was developed by the American psychologist Frederick Herzberg in the 1950s. It can be contrasted to job enlargement which simply increases the number of tasks without changing the challenge. As such job enrichment has been described as 'vertical loading' of a job, while job enlargement is 'horizontal loading'. 

Performance appraisal rating methods:
Straight ranking method
Paired comparison
Critical incident
Checklist method
Graphical rating method
Forced distribution
Management by objective
360 degree appraisal
Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARC)

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Idea generation:
Brain storming
Nominal group technique
Delphi technique


 

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