Organizational Behavior
Chapter 8
Team dynamics

Teams and informal groups

Teams: groups of two or more people who interact with and influence each other, are mutually accountable for achieving common goals associated with organizational objectives, and perceive themselves as a social entity within an organization.

All teams exist to fulfill some purpose.
Team members are held together by their interdependence and need for collaboration to achieve common goals.
Team members influence each other.
A team exist when it members

Organizational Behavior
Chapter 6
Applied Performance Practices

The meaning of money in the workplace

Money is much more than an object of compensation for an employee’s contribution to organizational objectives.
Money relates to our needs and our self-concept.
It generates a variety of emotions.
Money is a symbol of achievement and status, a motivator, and an influence on our propensity to make ethical or risky decisions.

To some extent, the influence of

Organizational Behavior
Chapter 4
Workplace emotions, attitudes, and stress

Emotions in the workplace

Emotions influence almost everything we do in the workplace.
Often occur before cognitive processes and, consequently influence them.

Emotions: physiological, behavioral, and psychological episodes experienced toward an object, person, or event that create a state of readiness.
Quite short.
Directed toward someone or something.
Emotions are experiences, they represent changes in our physiological state, psychological state and behavior.
Most of these emotional reactions are subtle, they occur without

Organizational Behavior
Chapter 1
Introduction to the filed of Organizational behavioral

The field of organizational behavior

Organizational behavior (OB): the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations.
They study this topic at multiple levels of analysis:

• The individual
• The team
• The organization

Organizations: groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose.
Collective entities. Humans who interact with each other in an organized way.
Requires some minimal level of:

• Communication
• Coordination
• Collaboration

Members have a