Session:1 Management and Organizational Behavior
Key Terms
Organizational Behavior | Leadership Development – Micro-Learning Session
Rice University 2020 | Michael Laverty, Colorado State University Global Chris Littel, North Carolina State University| https://openstax.org/details/books/organizational-behavior
- Alienation
- The experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong, or in which one should be involved.
- Ethics
- Moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.
- Executive managers
- Generally, a team of individuals at the highest level of management of an organization.
- First-line management
- The level of management directly managing nonmanagerial employees.
- Industrial competitiveness
- The ability to provide products and services more effectively and efficiently than competitors.
- Long-range planning
- A process of setting goals that outlines the path for the company’s future.
- Macro-organizational behavior
- Macro-organizational behavioral research steps back and looks at an organization as a whole.
- Management
- The process of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the activities of employees in combination with other resources to accomplish organizational objectives.
- Micro-organizational behavior
- Micro-organizational behavioral studies focus on individual and group dynamics within an organization.
- Middle management
- The managers in an organization at a level just below that of senior executives.
- Organization theory
- The study of organization designs and organization structures, relationship of organizations with their external environment, and the behavior of managers and workers within organizations.
- Organizational behavior
- The study of the actions and attitudes of individuals and groups toward one another and toward the organization as a whole.
- Organizational design
- A formal methodology that identifies dysfunctional aspects of workflow, procedures, structures and systems, and then realigns them to fit current business goals and develops plans to implement change.
- Organizational processes
- The activities that establish the business goals of the organization and develop processes, product and resource assets that when used will help to achieve business goals.
- Technology
- The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
- Theory
- A set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based.
- Work
- All activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.