Monday, January 31, 2005

What is Organizational Behaviour ?

DEFINITION OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
It is the field of study to describe, to predict and to control the behaviour of individual, group and organization.

Individual Characteristics
1. Personality (Introversion- Extraversion) Locus of control, Authoritarian personality, Type A and type B personality, self-efficacy)
2. Need hierarchy
3. Intelligence
4. Aptitude (Manual dexterity, Numeric ability, Spatial ability, Verbal ability)
5. Perception (Attention, perceptual organization) of others (stereotype, Halo effect)
6. Attitude (beliefs, values, feelings about particular object)
7. Memory (STM, LTM)
8. Learning (Conditioning, Trial and error, Insight)

Behavioural processes of Individual Characteristics in context of Organization
1. Job Satisfaction
2. Work motivation and Job characteristics
3. Employee turnover
4. Employee absenteeism
5. Accident
6. Organizational commitment
7. Individual decision making
8. Job stress (role underload, overload, role ambiguity

GROUP BEHAVIOUR

Group Characteristics
1. Types (Formal and Informal )
2. Group structure
3. Group norm
4. Group cohesiveness
5. Group decision making

Behavioural Processes
1. Team working
2. Power
3. Leadership
4. Inter group conflict

ORGANIZATION’S BEHAVIOUR
Characteristics
1. Goals
2. Structure (Centralization, specialization, formalization, standardization)

Processes
1. Organizational cultures
2. Organizational climate
3. Organizational health

Objectives and Problems of trade union

OBJECTIVES OF TRADE UNION
1. To improve the wages
2. To safeguard and improve the standards of working people
3. To campaign for laws and policies which will benefit working people.

PROBLEMS OF TRADE UNION
1) Sectionalism,
2) Competition for members,
3) Demarcation of work, and
4) Lack of a coordinated policy.

Organizational behaviour for trade union

Organizational behaviour for trade union

Trade union is at stake

Trade union leaders are working in the formal organized sectors. But gradually, this formal organized sectors are reducing. Due to economic transformation, commercial organizations are moving from domestic marketing to global marketing to transnational marketing. For this reason, more informal sectors are supposed to grow. At this juncture, what will be role of trade Union as there will be less number of organized sectors ?