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Organizational Behavior Case Study

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INTRODUCTION:
What is Organizational Behavior?Organizational behavior studies the impact individuals, groups, and structures have on human behavior within organizations. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychology, communication, and management. Organizational behavior complements organizational theory, which focuses on organizational and intra-organizational topics, and complements human-resource studies, which is more focused on everyday business practices.
Organizational studies encompass the study of organizations from multiple perspectives, methods, and levels of analysis. "Micro" organizational behavior refers to individual and group dynamics in organizations. "Macro" strategic management and organizational …show more content…

Modern organizational studies attempt to understand and model these factors. Organizational studies seek to control, predict, and explain. Organizational behavior can play a major role in organizational development, enhancing overall organizational performance, as well as also enhancing individual and group performance, satisfaction, and commitment.
Organizational behavior is particularly relevant in the field of management due to the fact that it encompasses many of the issues managers face on a daily basis. Concepts such as leadership, decision making, team building, motivation, and job satisfaction are all facets of organizational behavior and responsibilities of management. Understanding not only how to delegate tasks and organize resources but also how to analyze behavior and motivate productivity is critical for success in management.
Organizational behavior also deals heavily in culture. Company or corporate culture is difficult to define but is extremely relevant to how organizations behave. A Wall Street stock-trading company, for example, will have a dramatically different work culture than an academic department at a university. Understanding and defining these work cultures and the behavioral implications they embed organizationally is also a central topic in organizational …show more content…

Hoppock defined job satisfaction as any combination of psychological, physiological and environmental circumstances that cause a person truthfully to say I am satisfied with my job (Hoppock, 1935). In the past 10 years many surveys has been conducted and it seems to show noticeable fluctuations in employer’s satisfaction with their jobs. Several internal and external factors are the factors influencing job satisfaction and it keeps changing over the time. This fluctuation is also accompanied by demographic, economic and social trends seen in the attitude of people. According to this study, in 2012 81% of U.S. employees reported overall satisfaction with their current job, with 38% of employees indicating they were “very satisfied” and 43% “somewhat

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