Organizational behavior (OB) is a social sciences field of study that examines human behavior in the workplace. It draws from sociology, psychology, political science and anthropology to understand ...

Organizational behavior is the study of how people act in groups, particularly at work. This field of study has yielded four types of organizational behavior and each has different effects on ...

Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 6 (Nov., 1999), pp. 915-931 (17 pages) The current study was designed to investigate the situational, dispositional, and affective antecedents of ...

Douglas MacGregor's Theories X and Y classify employees as either extrinsically motivated by fear of consequences or desire for reward, or intrinsically motivated by a will to succeed, respectively.

In this second counterpoint article, we refute the claims of Landy, Locke, and Conte, and make the more specific case for our perspective, which is that ability-based models of emotional intelligence ...

Welcome to my first post in this column dedicated to presenting big ideas by bold thinkers that help us imagine organizational change in new ways. If you want to produce change in the world and wonder ...

In the field of Organizational Behavior, researchers draw on the methods and concepts of psychology and sociology to examine complex organizations and the ways that people behave within them. Scholars ...

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