The rules of work are different from the rules of play. The uniqueness of rules and the environment of organizations forces managers to study Organizational behavior in order to learn about normal and abnormal ranges of behavior.
More specifically, Organizational behavior serves three purposes:
- What causes behavior?
- Why particular antecedents cause
behavior?
- Which antecedents of behavior can
be controlled directly and which are beyond control?
A more specific and formal course in
Organizational behavior helps an individual to develop more refined and
workable sets of assumption that is directly relevant to his work interactions.
Organizational behavior helps in predicting human behavior in the
Organizational setting by drawing a clear distinction between individual
behavior and group behavior.
Organizational behavior does not
provide solutions to all complex and different behavior puzzles of
organizations. It is only the intelligent judgment of the manager in dealing
with a specific issue that can try to solve the problem. Organizational
behavior only assists in making judgments that are derived from tenable assumptions;
judgment that takes into account the important variables underlying the
situation; judgment that are assigned due recognition to the complexity of
individual or group behavior; judgment that explicitly takes into account the
managers own goals, motives, hang-ups, blind spots and weaknesses.