Organisational Behaviour

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Kym Goh
Mind Map by Kym Goh, updated more than 1 year ago
Kym Goh
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Organisational Behaviour
  1. Levels of Managements
    1. First-line
      1. Supervisors directly responsible for work on non-managerial employees
      2. Middle
        1. managers who direct and co-ordinate efforts of first-line supervisors
        2. Top
          1. managers responsible for total organisation and make decisions on long-term direction of organisation
        3. Essential Management Skills
          1. Human
            1. ability to work with, understand and motivate other people
            2. Technical
              1. ability to apply specialised knowledge or expertise
              2. Conceptual
                1. mental ability to analyse complex situations as well as to co-ordinate and integrate the organisation's interest and actvities
              3. Types of Behavioural Disciplines
                1. Psychology
                  1. science that seek to measure, explain and change behaviour of humans
                  2. Sociology
                    1. study of people in relation to their social environment or culture
                    2. Social Psychology
                      1. focuses on influence of people on one another
                      2. Anthropology
                        1. study of societies to help understand fundamental values, attitudes and behaviour between people in different countries and within different organisations
                      3. Insights to Critical Issues
                        1. Responding to globalisation
                          1. organisations no longer constrained by national borders
                          2. Managing Workforce Diversity
                            1. addresses differences among people, and acknowledges workforce of men and women, different racial groups, individual with varieties of physical and psychological abilities, and people of different age
                            2. Improving customer service
                              1. management to create customer-responsive culture (OB provide guidance)
                              2. Improving people skills
                                1. OB helps to explain and predict behaviours of people at work
                                2. Working in networked organisations
                                  1. allow people to communicate and work from long distances (OB provides valuable insights)
                                3. Levels of Independent Variables
                                  1. Individual
                                    1. characteristics of an individual which influences their work behaviour that the organisation are unable to alter them
                                    2. Group
                                      1. behaviour of people in groups is more than the sum total of all individuals acting their own way (group gesture, intra-group and intergroup dispute and attachment)
                                      2. Organisational
                                        1. behaviour of people in organisations is more than the sum of their member groups (when groups are combined together)
                                          1. Organisational structure and design
                                            1. Human resources policies and practices
                                              1. Organisational culture
                                                1. Work stress
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