Organizational Behavior Discussion - 1

One of the core part of Human Resource Management (we saw why this was the most significant business function) involves understanding the Human Being. We began with our attempt to understand the Human being with the blog on ego. The behavior of the human beings in organization gives significant inputs on the way the human being thinks. Understanding their behavior hence would be would be very significant and this study is called Organization Behavior (OB)

OB assists managers develop an insightful understanding of how people and organizations behave and interact with each other in accomplishing their goals. This field of OB could be classified into two categories:

• Micro OB - that dealing with the way individuals influence the organization
• Macro OB - that dealing with the way the organization influence the behavior of the people

Whatever the focus, it is certain that OB deals with behavior of people and organization. For a manger dealing with OB, it would mean understanding, directing, controlling and predicting behavior in organizations of both people and organization.

This means that the field of OB comes in with a significant practice oriented rider - it is only by practice that the manager would gain acquaintance with the people and organization he works with and thereby accomplishes the objectives.

In the upcoming series on HR related issues, we could continue our understanding of OB before going to other divisions of the HRM - as Human resource form the core of every organization.