GOALS OF OB
A. Explanation
One of goal of organizational behaviour is explanation of events in organizations – why do they occur? Organizational behaviour is especially interested in determining why people are more or less motivated, satisfied, or prone to resign. The ability to understand behaviour is a necessary prerequisite for effectively managing it.
1. Seek to answer why an individual or a group of individuals did something.
2. Explanation is the least important of the three goals, from a management perspective, because it occurs after the fact.
B. Prediction
The managers would have capacity to predict which employees might be dedicated and productive or which ones might have absent, cause problem. And thus the managers could take preventive actions.
1. The goal of prediction focuses on future events to determine what outcomes will result from a given action.
2. There are various ways to implement a major change, so the manager is likely to assess employee responses to several change interventions. Such information can be used in making the decision as to which change effort to use.
C. Control
The IMPORTANT goal of OB is to control and develop some human activity at work. Since managers are held responsible for performance outcome, they are vitally interested in being able to make an impact on employee behavior, skill development, team effort, and productivity. Managers need to be able to improve results through the actions they and their employees take, and organizational behavior can aid them in their pursuit of this goal.
1. The most controversial goal is to control behavior because most of us live in democratic societies, which are built upon the concept of personal freedom.
2. OB does offer technologies that facilitate the control of people.
a) Whether those technologies should be used in organizations becomes an ethical question.
D.Describe: The first goal is to describe, systematically how people behave under a variety of conditions. Achieving this goal allows managers to communicate about human behavior at work using a common language.
E.Understand: A second goal is to understand any people behave as they do. The managers would be frustrated if they could talk about behavior of their employees, but not understand the reasons behind those actions.
F. Managing Organizational Behaviour
Management is defined as the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. If behaviour can be predicted and explained, it can often be managed. If prediction and explanation constitute analysis, then management constitutes action.
A. Explanation
One of goal of organizational behaviour is explanation of events in organizations – why do they occur? Organizational behaviour is especially interested in determining why people are more or less motivated, satisfied, or prone to resign. The ability to understand behaviour is a necessary prerequisite for effectively managing it.
1. Seek to answer why an individual or a group of individuals did something.
2. Explanation is the least important of the three goals, from a management perspective, because it occurs after the fact.
B. Prediction
The managers would have capacity to predict which employees might be dedicated and productive or which ones might have absent, cause problem. And thus the managers could take preventive actions.
1. The goal of prediction focuses on future events to determine what outcomes will result from a given action.
2. There are various ways to implement a major change, so the manager is likely to assess employee responses to several change interventions. Such information can be used in making the decision as to which change effort to use.
C. Control
The IMPORTANT goal of OB is to control and develop some human activity at work. Since managers are held responsible for performance outcome, they are vitally interested in being able to make an impact on employee behavior, skill development, team effort, and productivity. Managers need to be able to improve results through the actions they and their employees take, and organizational behavior can aid them in their pursuit of this goal.
1. The most controversial goal is to control behavior because most of us live in democratic societies, which are built upon the concept of personal freedom.
2. OB does offer technologies that facilitate the control of people.
a) Whether those technologies should be used in organizations becomes an ethical question.
D.Describe: The first goal is to describe, systematically how people behave under a variety of conditions. Achieving this goal allows managers to communicate about human behavior at work using a common language.
E.Understand: A second goal is to understand any people behave as they do. The managers would be frustrated if they could talk about behavior of their employees, but not understand the reasons behind those actions.
F. Managing Organizational Behaviour
Management is defined as the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. If behaviour can be predicted and explained, it can often be managed. If prediction and explanation constitute analysis, then management constitutes action.