Concept information
Preferred term
organizational behavior
Definition
- Organizational behavior (OB) defines a field of applied social science that has two complementary objectives related to the fact that the term organization refers both (a) to an entity (e.g., a corporation or business) in which people's behavior is coordinated and regulated, and (b) to the outcome of that coordination and regulation. The first objective is to understand the behavior and experience of people who participate in organizational life. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Organizational Behavior]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- affect
- asset specificity
- attitudes
- attribution theory
- bounded emotionality
- charismatic leadership
- clinical perspective
- cohesion
- dispersed leadership
- emotion in the workplace
- escalation of commitment
- fairness theory
- five-factor model of personality
- followership
- goal-setting theory
- high involvement management
- human motivation
- identification
- impression management
- influence (psychology)
- influence tactics
- intergroup conflict
- leadership styles
- leadership theory
- managing groups
- morale
- motivation
- negotiation
- normalization of deviance
- opportunistic behavior
- organizational citizenship behavior
- organizational climate
- organizational memory
- organizational performance
- organizational resilience
- organizational routines
- organizational spirituality
- organizational stigma
- organizational therapy
- organizational toxicity
- self-efficacy
- sensemaking
- servant leadership
- subjectivity
- teamwork
- transactional leadership
- transformational leadership
- uncertainty avoidance
- values (guiding principles)
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/organizational_behavior
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