Organizational behaviour (BFT 110/3)

The book 'Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction' provides a critical look at management and organizations to expose issues and assumptions underlying the world of management. It is designed to challenge the prevailing theories of organizational behavior. The book also discusses important features of organizational life, including inequality, conflict, domination, subordination, and manipulation.

Analyse the causes for similarities and dissimilarities among individuals.
Discuss various models of man like economic man, social man, organisation man, selfactualisation man and complex man.
• Understand the need for study of organisational behaviour. .
• Know the meaning of and features of organizational behavior.
• Synchronize various factors those affect organisational behaviour, viz., information technology, TQM, BPRE and benchmarking. Know the factors responsible for increase· in diversity of human resources. Analyse the contributions of various disciplines to organisational behaviour. Understand the model of organizational behaviour.

Corporate development depends on the speed of organisational behaviour and the organisational behaviour is affected with the behaviours of individual employees, their groups and structure. The foremost question that arises herewith is what is organisation. Initially, one can state that organisation is an association of persons for achieving certain objectives.