Organizational Behavior - Meaning, Models, Importance, Challenges & Cross-Cultural Dynamics (Mgt 13)

Organizational Behaviour refers to the way individuals and employees in groups behave within an organization.

Organizational Behaviour has a direct impact on organizational performance.

Organizational Behaviour: Importance

1. Describes human behaviour in a common way
2. Helps to understand the behaviour of employees
3. Predict behaviour by identifying productive and unproductive employees
4. Controls, influences and motivates behaviour for the benefit of the employee and the organization

Organizational Behaviour: Challenges

- Globalization
- Bringing improvements in quality
- Improving the skills of employees
- Bringing change and innovation
- Dealing with temporary aspects
- Creating work-life balance
- Building a positive workplace environment

Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Introduction

Employees at a higher level have to interact with people at all levels from the boss to the subordinate belonging to different cultural, religious and geographic backgrounds.  

Cross-Cultural Dynamics refers to the system adopted by the managers to understand these differences, change their style and act accordingly.

Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Power Distance

Power Distance refers to the degree to which people belonging to a culture will accept inequality in power distribution.

Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Uncertainty Avoidance

Uncertainty Avoidance refers to the degree to which people from a culture feel helpless by unknown conditions

Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Individualism

Individualism refers to the degree to which people of a culture believe in and act for individual gain.

Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Masculinity

Masculinity refers to the degree to which people belonging to one culture view men and women as equals

Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Long-Term Orientation

Long-Term Orientation refers to the degree to which people from a culture focus on future

Organizational Culture and Climate: Introduction

Organizational Culture refers to the shared norms, values and beliefs of an organization.

Organizational Climate refers to the shared perception of the employees about their workplace environment.

Individual and Group Behaviour depend on

1. Characteristics of people
2. Sum of individual behaviour
3. Sum of group behaviour

S-O-B-C MODEL

1. S – Stimulus
2. O – Organism
3. B – Behaviour
4. C - Consequences

Models of Organizational Behaviour

1. Autocratic Model
2. Custodial Model
3. Supportive Model
4. Collegial Model

This video is on Organizational Behavior and it has the following sub-topics.

Time Stamps
0:00 Introduction Organizational Behaviour
00:31 Organizational Behaviour: Importance
00:56 Organizational Behaviour: Challenges
01:17 Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Introduction
01:51 Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Power Distance
02:25 Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Uncertainty Avoidance
03:00 Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Individualism
03:34 Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Masculinity
04:09 Cross-Cultural Dynamics: Long-Term Orientation
04:37 Organizational Culture and Climate: Introduction
05:15 Individual and Group Behaviour
06:10 S-O-B-C MODEL
06:58 Models of Organizational Behaviour