Organizational Behavior Priorities
Organizational Behavior Chapter one defines the field of OB, stakes out its parameters, and identifies its primary dependent and independent variables. The dependent variables are productivity, absenteeism, turnover, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. ... Organizational commitment refers to an employee’s attachment to the organization and is an important measure of the extent to which employees are willing to devote themselves to organizational goals. ... The chapter emphasizes that as complicated as organizational behavior is, it still does not do justice to the complexity of the OB subject matter, but it should help explain and predict the behavior of people at work. The chapter also includes the concepts of change and development, acknowledging the dynamics of behavior, and suggesting there are ways for change agents or managers to modify many of the independent variables if they are having negative impacts on the organization as a whole.