Concept

Organizational behavior

Summary
Organizational behavior or organisational behaviour (see spelling differences) is the: "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself". Organizational behavioral research can be categorized in at least three ways:
  • individuals in organizations (micro-level)
  • work groups (meso-level)
  • how organizations behave (macro-level)
Chester Barnard recognized that individuals behave differently when acting in their organizational role than when acting separately from the organization. Organizational behavior researchers study the behavior of individuals primarily in their organizational roles. One of the main goals of organizational behavior research is "to revitalize organizational theory and develop a better conceptualization of organizational life". Relation to industrial and organizational psychology Miner (2006) mentioned that "there is a certain arbitrariness"
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