Workplace Organizational Strategies

What is organizational behavior? This concept is introduced in this business lesson, along with a detailed definition, and a diagram explaining the context.

Which disciplines relate to organizational behavior? Contributing topics include psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology, all reviewed here.

If you plan on studying an organization, regardless of your specific perspective, you need to understand how organization structure theory changed over time.

The Hawthorne Studies, conducted in the 1920s at the Western Electric Company, elucidated several truths about organizational behavior and efficiency.

The Parkinson's Law Program is an interesting example of organizational behavior, from all the way back after the First World War! Review a key OB case today.

Attitudes are a significant component of daily life, but how are they defined? In this lesson, learn a bit about the psychology and science of attitudes.

Now that you're familiar with the components of an attitude, the question remains: why are attitudes so important when studying organizational behavior?

What happens when employees are dissatisfied? In this organizational behavior lesson, review an employee attitude outcome map, and the dimensions of response.

Beyond attitudes, emotions and moods are also significant when considering organizational behavior, and impact workplace interactions.

There are many emotions out there, but how many are there in total, and how are they related? In this lesson discover the continuum of human emotion.

You're now comfortable with thinking about emotions, so in this lesson, review two conflicting theories about emotions, and how cognition and emotion relate.

How do the emotions of an individual relate to an organization? One factor is something known as "emotional labor", which deals with interpersonal transactions.

Get familiar with the big five personality model! In this lesson related to psychology and business, see how personality is tied to job performance.

Why is it that sometimes there's a fit between a person and a job, or organization, while other times there's no fit at all? Learn the theories here!

Perceptions help give significance to sensory impulses, acting as a mediator between reality and meaning. Therefore, reality is all about interpretation.

When a manager and employee see a problem, they may see the problem and solution from two perspectives. In this lesson, see a few examples proving the point.

In this lesson learn a key aspect of psychology considered by Attribution theory: why it matters if a behavior is motivated internally or by outside factors.

Decision making can be modeled in different ways, and in this business lesson, three models are reviewed: the rational mode, bounded model, and intuition.

Managers within an organization live in a world of bounded rationality. But what happens when bias influences decision making? Review three types of bias here.

When seeking to improve your work performance or organizational skills, motivation is key. Learn the three key factors that comprise motivation in this lesson.

Find out how psychologist Abraham Maslow's "pyramid of needs" theory can be understood and mobilized to motivate other people and yourself during this lesson!

The two factor theory worth examining for any student of organizational behavior. Of particular use for managers, the model addresses change in satisfaction.

If you're a manager looking for techniques on motivating employees, understanding McClelland's Theory of Needs is an excellent place to start.

Feeling unmotivated by hobbies, passions, or work that used to inspire you? Learn about self-determination theory to find out where your motivation went.

Wondering how to improve your employees' performance at work? Consider motivating them under the guidelines of self-efficacy theory discussed in this lesson.

Learn how equity theory and organizational justice impact employees' sense of justice in the workplace, and find out how to keep a pervasive sense of equity.

Learn about the relationships between employee effort, employee performance, organizational rewards, and employee goals during this lesson on expectancy theory.

Learn about the various reasons that a person might be motivated to join a particular group, and learn about how different types of groups are organized.

Learning about the five stage process of group formation can give you an advantage in any business environment. Find out more in this organizational lesson.

Consider the potential conflicts that emerge when two different roles contradict each other in one person's life. Plus, learn about expectations and perception.

Are you a manager or supervisor wondering how to elicit the best and fastest performance possible from your employees? Consider this lesson on group norms!

Discover the definition of status or rank, and learn about the three determining factors that delineate who has more status or rank within a group of people.

As a manager, it is essential to have an accurate measure of your subordinates' rate of production. Learn how group properties like size can effect production.

During this lesson, learn specifically about the potential advantages and disadvantages of group decision making, and find out why it is often the best option.

Learn how a phenomenon called groupthink can negatively affect the results of any group inquiry in a business environment. Plus, learn how to avoid it!

Wondering what the difference is between a group and team in the workplace? Discover why managers prefer 'teams' of people over 'groups' of people during work.

Now that you understand the difference between a 'team' and a 'group' in the workplace, it is time to consider the four organizational forms of a team.

Workplaces and business environments are necessarily fraught with contested power relations. Learn about the basic distinction between power and leadership!

Where does power come from? Find out more about the foundations of power during this lesson and consider the difference between formal power and personal power.

Power is the functional result of dependency, but how can power be used effectively? Learn how nine types of power can be applied in different situations.

Find out what common employee responses to look out for in the face of organizational politics and discover how to respond to actions that avoid blame.

Learn how to maintain a positive impression with your superiors, subordinates, or co-workers in the workplace through these impression management techniques.

Wondering what level of conflict is beneficial in the workplace, or whether conflict should be avoided entirely? Consider three different views on conflict.

Would you like to be better prepared to handle conflicting situations in the workplace? Consider this lesson on the first two stages of the conflict process

As conflict escalates, what happens? The third stage of conflict can be characterized in many different ways depending on the intentions of those in conflict.

During part three of this three-part series, learn how conflict exhibits itself in behavior and what the potential final outcomes of conflict are.

Do you want to become a more successful business negotiator? Discover the difference between two different forms of negotiation: distributive and integrative.