1. What is Organizational Behavior?
Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study of individuals and their behavior within the context of the organization in a workplace setting. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychology, social psychology, and management.

2. After completing Unit 1 , you should be able to:
Identify, describe, and discuss the three levels of OB.
Describe the disciplines that contribute to organizational behavior.
Discuss the foundations of individual behavior. Interpersonal behavior’s affect on OB of an organization.
Explain what constitutes interpersonal behavior and how it affects an organization.
Explain the evolving strategies of police management.
Define the dynamics of managers.
Point out the personality determinants of organization behavior.
Continued..

3. Continued Unit I learning experiences
Explain interpersonal behavior’s affect on OB of an organization.
Define constitutes interpersonal behavior and discuss how it affects an organization.
Explain the evolving strategies of police management..
Discuss the dynamics of managers..
Identify and explain the personality determinants of organization behavior.

4. Goal of Organizational Behavior
Primary Goal: to create and maintain healthy relationships between employees and also between employees and the management of an organization so that the overall objectives of an organization and the objective of society in the long run are met. Restatement of goal: Explain, predict, and control human behavior By replacing intuitive explanations with systematic study

5. Organization
A consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people, that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals

6. Reprinted from Instructor’s Power Points in Robbins and Judge, Organizational Behavior, 12th ed. Pearson.

7. Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field
Psychology
The science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals
Reprinted from Instructor’s Power Points in Robbins and Judge, Organizational Behavior, 12th ed. Pearson.

8. Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d)
Sociology
The study of people in relation to their fellow human beings
Reprinted from Instructor’s Power Points in Robbins and Judge, Organizational Behavior, 12th ed. Pearson.

9. Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d)
Social Psychology
An area within psychology that blends concepts from psychology and sociology and that focuses on the influence of people on one another
Reprinted from Instructor’s Power Points in Robbins and Judge, Organizational Behavior, 12th ed. Pearson.

10. Contributing Disciplines to the OB Field (cont’d)
Anthropology
The study of societies to learn about human beings and their activities
Reprinted from Instructor’s Power Points in Robbins and Judge, Organizational Behavior, 12th ed. Pearson.

11. Systematic study
-The use of scientific evidence gathered under controlled conditions and measured and interpreted in a reasonably rigorous manner to attribute cause and effect

12. Levels of OB Analysis
Individual
Group
System

13. Contributing Disciplines to OB
Psychology seeks to measure, explain, and change behavior
Sociology studies people in relation to their fellow human beings
Social psychology focuses on the influence of people on one another
Anthropology is the study of societies to learn about human beings and their activities
Political science is the study of the behavior of individuals and groups within a political environment
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14. Classical School Dominated managerial thinking in the 1930s
Sought to discover the “one best way to create and administrate an organization
Organizations should consist of carefully designed interrelated parts, rationally working together like a machine.
Workers are a part of the machine.

15. Bureaucracy Max Weber Centralized managerial authority
Organized hierarchically
Each unit required to have a specific sphere of competence
Selection based on merit
Salary based on hierarchical rank
Attempted to reduce management to a set of rules.

16. Early 20th Century Police Reformers
August Vollmer, O.W. Wilson, William Parker
Primary function of policing is crime control
Police departments independent of politics
Achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency with highly centralized command structure and standardized operating procedures.

17. Scientific Management
Frederick W. Taylor
Shift all responsibility from worker to management
Select best person to perform the job
Train workers to work efficiently
Monitor workers

18. Contingency management model
Environmental driving forces
The individual
The organization
The group/team within the organization

19. Community policing
Major function of police- control and prevention of crime
Decentralized organizational design
Consultative relationship with community
Stress problem solving, information gathering, and counseling

20. CompStat
Goal-orientated strategic management process that uses information technology, operational strategy, and managerial accountability to effectively control crime.
Process of information gathering, analysis, and dissemination.