Summary Essentials of Organizational Behavior, Global Edition

A snapshot of the summary - Essentials of Organizational Behavior, Global Edition Author: Stephen P Robbins Timothy A Judge ISBN: 9781292221410

• 1 Welcome to the World of OB !!!!!

• What is organizational behavior? (OB)

  Organizational behavior is the field of study that investigates the impact on individuals, groups, and structures within organizations.
• What are the disciplines that contribute to the organizational behavior field?

  The disciplines that contribute to the organizational behavior field are:  social psychology, which includes psychology and sociology, and anthropology.
• What is explained when organizations work more with different gender, age, sexual orientations, etc.

  That is called workforce diversity.
• What are the three different variables, and what is their explanation?

  • \/ Inputs; personality, group structure, organizational culture.
    
  • \/ Processes; actions, people engage because of their inputs.
  •     Outcomes; key factors attached by some other variables.
• What are contingency variables?

  SItuational factors.

• 1.1.1.2 Effective versus successful managerial activities

• Wat zijn de vier gebleken ''managerial activities'' (onderzoek Fred Luthans)?

  1. Traditional management
     
  2. Communication
  3. HR management
  4. Networking

• 2 Attitudes !!!!!

• What is the core self-evalutaion (CSE)?

  It is about believing in one's inner worth and basic competence.
• What is the corporate social responsibility (CSR) about?

  An organization's self-regulated actions to benefit society or the environment beyond what is required by the law.
• What components are difficult to seperate?

  Cognition causes affect, which then causes behavior in the reality
• Causes of attitude following behavir illustrate the effects of cognitive dissonacne

  Contradictions individuals might perceive between their attitudes and their people