Question

What are those in the Building Blocks of OB in organisational behaviour science?
Give each explanation.

Answer 1

Organizational behavior: The field of study which investigates the effect that individuals, groups, and structures have on behavior inside the organization.
It aims to apply such knowledge for the improvement of organizational effectiveness.

Building blocks of Organizational behavior are:
i). Psychology: The study of mind and behavior, conscious and unconscious phenomenon, feeling, and thoughts is known as psychology. It helps to explain processes within a person and the reason behind particular behavior or feel.

ii). Sociology: The study of social life, change, cause, and consequence of human behavior is sociology. It is an interaction between individuals and the structure.
It considers the culture of the organization and change, the theory of formal organization, technology, communication, power, and conflicts in the organization.

iii). Social psychology: The study of how thoughts, feelings, and behavior of people are impacted by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
It blends sociology and psychology which means how people have an impact on each other.

iv). Anthropology: It is the study of humanity, groups of people their fundamental values, attitude, culture, etc. between people of different countries and within the organization.

v). Political science: It is the study of individuals or groups within a political environment. It helps in a better understanding of the dynamics of power centers, structuring of conflicts, tactics of resolving conflicts, power allocation, how to manipulate power for the self-interest of individuals.