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CAB1 – Organizational Behavior

Seminar 1
Franziska Bay, [email protected]
Agenda
Seminar week 1
• Who am I ?
• Who are you?
• What is CAB1?
• What is Organizational Behavior?
• Why or how is this important?
About me
Franziska Bay
About you
Short introduction round
• Please introduce yourself
– What is your name?
– Where are you from?
– What area of business are you (most) interested in?
• What do you expect from this course?
About CAB1
Core Areas of Business 1 – Organizational Design, Theory & Behavior

OT Seminar Top-down perspective from a strategic level (higher

management level)

Organizational theory &


Lecture
practice

General overview
OB Seminar Bottom-up perspective from an employee level
of models,
(operational level)
theories and

applications
Organizational Behavior
Robbins & Judge (2024)
• The human factor in an organization (the people make the place)

motivation culture
justice
leadership
ethics personality
Organizational Behavior

General structure of an

organization

1) CEO,…

2) Managers

3) Workers
Levels of analysis
OB can be viewed from different angles
1. Organizational level
– Mainly sociological and anthropological
2. Group/ management level
– Mainly sociological and psychological
3. Individual level
– Mainly psychological
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Levels of analysis
OB can be viewed from different angles
1. Organizational level
– Organizational culture & environment
– Power
– Organizational change
2. Group/ management level
– Diversity & justice
– Communication, conflict & decisions
– Group processes
3. Individual level
– Learning
– Motivation
– Attitudes & emotions
– Performance, stress & satisfaction
Laws of OB
a2 + b2 = c2?
• Example: How do you prepare best for an exam?

 Different people have different preferences, motivators and behavioral


patterns.
 Talking about human behavior, generalizations are never 100% correct
 Research is important to be able to make good predictions about what is
most likely to work for most people
General model of OB (Robbins & Judge, 2024)
Structurally analyzing OB relationships

process
input

output
Individual level: Individual level: Individual level:

Diversity, personality, values Emotions, motivation, Attitudes*, performance,

perception, decisions stress, organizational

citizenship behavior,

withdrawal behavior

Based on Robbins & Judge (2024)


Digression 1
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)
• Behavior that goes above and beyond a worker’s defined duties:
– Altruism
– Courtesy/ social engagement
– Sportsmanship
– Other examples?
Digression 2
Withdrawal behavior

Jon Clifton. (2023). Why the world can’t quit quiet quitting. Gallup
Challenges to Managers in OB
Or opportunities for distinction?
• Diversity and inclusion
• Globalization & flexibilization
• Technological advancement (AI, social media, IoT, smart tech)
• Unethical or counterproductive behaviors
• Corporate social responsibility (see, e.g., Tony’s Chocolonely or Ben &
Jerry’s)
Economic conditions & events
Of the most recent times
• Covid-19 pandemic
• Urban sprawl differential effects on organizational

• Gig/ platform economy behavior and strategy


Break time
15 minutes
Get active!
In-class assignment 1
• use AI to:
• generate a definition of Organizational Behavior
• identify challenges and opportunities in applying OB concepts
• provide examples of how different social sciences contribute to the
field of Organizational Behavior
• Compare your result to the information from Monday’s lecture & this
seminar
Get active!
In-class assignment 2
• use AI to:
create 5 multiple-choice mock exam questions relating to the course
content of this week (at least 3 answering options)
• Find a partner to work with and pose the questions to each other

• Discuss how good the questions covered the topics we talked about
– Were they easy to answer?
– Do you think they could be real exam questions?
– If not, how could you modify your AI prompt to improve the
questions?
Mock exam questions
The ones your teachers came up with
________ get things done through other people. They make decisions,
allocate resources, and direct the activities of others to attain goals.
a) Assistants b) Managers c) Secretaries

Which is a key topic in positive organizational behavior research?


a) Engagement b) Constraint c) Pessimism

________ blends concepts from both psychology and sociology to focus on


people's influence on one another.
a) Social Psychology b) Cosmology c) Anthropology
Reading for
next week:

Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A.


(2024). Organizational behavior
19th edition. Pearson Education.
Chapter 3 – Job Attitudes
Franziska Bay
[email protected]

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