1 3 2 Understanding Organizations and OB

so now if you understand the problems of

organizational behavior then let's try

to understand what is this discipline

according to a practitioner's mindset

for an academician or researchers

mindset we will look organal behavior in

a next lecture where we will look at the

academic definitions of organal behavior

and what is clux of all those

definitions so term organizational

behavior contains two terms one is

organization

and second is

behavior so organizational

behavior contains two terms organization

and

behavior I'm using different colors for

these two terms so that you can

understand both root words different you

can focus on their differences so first

organizations what exactly you mean by

organizations if you ask this question

to lay person so usually they will

recall about offices lands buildings

salaries Etc believe me they are related

to organizations but they do not

represent what we mean by

organizations an

organization is something an entity that

contains at least four things which must

fulfill at least four criteria and only

then it qualifies to be an organization

so first

organizations so what we are trying to

do right now we are trying to Define we

are trying to understand what is

organizational behavior from a

practitioner's approach when you go and

work in the industry what exactly can

help you from this discipline so in this

approach you need to First understand

what organizations are per se what do we

mean by organizations so an organization

is a social entity first thing I said

four criteria an organization must

fulfill the first of those four criteria

is an organization is a social

entity an organization is

a

social entity right

and what do you mean by social entity we

all live in a society we live in a

family family is first organization that

all of us by default witness and

understand families organized family is

a social entity because there are

members in a family they are related to

each other under certain Ro Len say

father mother brother sister Grandpa

Grandma Etc so they are related to to

each other under some role relationship

though it's a very closely knit as

compared to organizations which may be a

bigger family and people have role

relationship though roles are also there

in family but in organization someone

could be manager someone could be foran

someone could be worker Etc programmer

so these are the role resen so an

organization is a social entity with a

purpose so that's the second

thing second important element of an

organization is purpose an organization

cannot exist without a purpose an

aimless life is meaningless life so an

aimless organization is not organization

at all now how do you know that an

organization has purpose organizations

have a formal purpose why formal because

every organization if you look at their

website their company documents the

first few pages

of policy document or website about page

dedicated to Mission Vision goal of

organization it's a clearly mentioned

that what is goal of organization for

instance uh Google's goal was to

organize all the information in the

world we approach Google as a search

engine but how Google is able to give a

search result because Google has

organized or attempted to organize all

the available information in the world

in contrast to this Microsoft has a

different purpose when Bill Gates was

there his purpose was to put a PC on

every

desk because a PC on every desk means a

Windows on every desk so organizations

have a clear purpose goal that is the

second important element of what we mean

by organization but merely social

entities with Goal are not

sufficient people might go haire you

need a governance mechanism you need

systems structures process so next

important element of organization is

structure or system so governance

mechanism then how teams would be

organized maybe I'm looking for a

functional structure maybe a divisional

mode or something now this is a part of

a different subject we always we usually

call it ational design in some

management institutes called

ob2 but that basically concerns itself

to governance mechanism in the

organization how people are organized in

uh company or organization so there a

third important criteria now the last

criteria for an entity to qualify as

organization is what we call environment

and organization cannot exist in

isolation it always operates in certain

environment but it does something more

with the

environment an organization is always

constantly in a resource relationship

with its environment an organization

takes input from the environment input

can be in the format of Human Resources

material resources raw materials

Financial resources maybe intellectual

resources etc etc and there might be

important stakeholders in the

environment for instance all your

company customers they in the

environment government very important

stakeholder in business it's in

environment it may affect

environment so one important aspect of

an organization's life is environment in

which it exist and it sends it takes

input from the environment turns out

input to certain process which are

internal to the organization and creates

output sends it back to the environment

and for its output it may earn money it

may earn brand Equity it may earn hudos

it may earn whatever its goal or purpose

is so when you go and work in the office

look for these company

is your organization a social

entity are there governance mechanisms

systems and process and let me tell you

clearly if any of these elements are

missing an organization will die for

instance an organization which is not in

an effective

relationship effective resource

transaction with its environment it will

die for instance house Al your cash Rich

your company is but if you are not able

to

attract talented people human resource

from the environment company will

collapse the cash May remain in the bank

account but the company will collapse

you got very talented people you are

able to attract talented people but you

are not able to manage organize them in

effective teams there are no system is

chaos there's no governance mechanism

organization will collapse once Alon

musk favorite of

many uh he said that apple is dumpyard

companies like apple Google they are the

dump yard of Tesla in fact he was

commenting on why these companies are

not able to make as good electric cars

as Tesla is making it was basically

according to musk Tesla's ability to

attract top Engineers as compared to

Google or Apple now Google Google Apple

they are not lesser rich or C

constrained as compared to Tesla Motors

they all are equally positioned as far

as Financial Muscle and Tech is

concerned but Tesla was able to attract

a particular kind of talent which helped

them building

futuristic fully electric cars I think

the biggest contribution of this man

alone must to

automobile sector was that he proved

that fully electric cars are possible

because before musk people were trusting

more hybrid cars so this is what an

effective relationship with environment

means so in organizational behavior I'm

sure now you understand clearly meaning

of what is organization now if you

understand this the job is easier for

the second root word which is behavior

so what is behav behavior in

organizational behavior currently I'm

speaking you can see you can hear me so

the term Behavior comes from psychology

and why psychology because psychology is

the mother discipline of organizational

behavior around 60 to 70%

content of organizational behavior is

directly drawn from psychology all these

topics thinking perception reasoning

problem solving decision making

leadership they all are studied have

been studied Long Ago by psychologist

and management tries to take Insight

management as a discipline tries to take

Insight from psychology to improve

individual functioning Behavior at work

I'm defining Behavior Behavior refers to

anything that an organism

does that can be observed and that can

be measured three things a occurrence of

behavior observation of behavior

measurement of behavior psychology stops

at this place psychologists are

basically interested in observing

Behavior measurement of behavior but

managers are interested in controlling

Behavior that's bad habit but anyway

without control it's not possible to

align people to certain goals we call

them organizational goals or

purpose and the best thing about this is

that if you can measure something you

can manage it if you can measure it you

can manage it the fundamental premise of

management so organizational behavior as

a discipline is a field of study which

studies individual Behavior what an

individual

does in an organizational setting which

is a social entity

with a purpose where governance is done

via systems and process so as to enter

in an effective productive and enduring

resource relationship with its

environment somehow as a successful

professional you should be able to

positively affect this relationship you

should be able to align your behavior

imagine I'm an individual

right what I'm expected to do as

a professional taking help of this

discipline so first

thing I need to understand myself very

well I need to understand people who are

working around me very well and that can

be done by focusing on my behavior and

behavior of people who are working

around me focus of psychology has always

been on individual Behavior

in management especially in

organizational behavior we talk a lot

about teams so do not miss conr that

organizational behavior means study of

groups study of organizations no

organizational behavior as a discipline

is study of individual

Behavior person per se is the focus of

study and why we study so that we can

effectively line his behavior in a

healthy way to the organization's

culture the existing social entity he

can also meaningfully he or she can also

meaningfully contribute to the overall

purpose of the

organization he should be able to work

in accordance with the prevailing

systems and structure he should be also

able to contribute or create new more

effective more adapted systems and

structure you know companies like

Kodak wonderful great company Powerhouse

of innovation in fact you can see

photography AI these things are means re

revolutionizing our time and Industry

and Kodak was originator of Photography

it was because of kodak's invention of

camera and films that photography became

so popular and affordable but Koda could

not

work with the effective governance

mechanism and there a lot more to that

codex story but this was one important

element if you look at analyze the Codex

Journey this was one thing I think they

must have Focus so am I able to also

create effective systems and structures

which may make me and my company more

adapted in a given environment and of

course this brings the element of

environment so am I able to interact

effectively with the environment when

you are preparing yourself as a

management professional or as a job

Seeker what exactly you are doing you

are preparing for a particular kind of

work

environment that environment may change

after some time maybe next month maybe

next year or maybe in a decade but it

will change so that's why you keep

constantly learning so these are the

important element aspects of

organizational behavior I hope now you

clearly understand what is meaning of

organization in organizational behavior

and what is the meaning of behavior and

if you clearly understand these two root

terms you understand everything what

happens usually in organizations and

organizational behavior so just to

summarize recap I will say that

organizational behavior from a

practitioner's approach is a field of

study in which we tries to study analyze

individual Behavior at work and align it

with overall organizational

purpose and all these factors all these

things come in picture when we focus on

alignment of human behavior with the

organization purpose this is there now

if you look at bookus definition

definition given by different Scholars

so they usually H around this criteria

different definitions in varying

proportion will mention all these terms

some will remain only conf find of

behavior some will talk about purpose

some will also mention the very few

about structures and systems but these

terms will come in definition of

organizational behavior given by any

scholar in varing

proportion so in the coming video

lecture we will look at what are some

scholarly definitions of organizational

behavior