Organizational Behavior is a field of study that investigates
the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on
behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such
knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. An
organization is a collection of people who work together to
achieve a wide variety of goals, both goals of the various
individuals in the organization and goals of the organization as
a whole. Organizations exist to provide goods and services that
people want. These goods and services are the products of the
behaviors of workers. Organizational behavior is the study of
the many factors that have an impact on how individuals and
groups respond to and act in organizations and how organizations
manage their environments. Although many people assume that
understanding human behavior in organizations is intuitive, many
commonly held beliefs about behavior in organizations, such as
the idea that a “happy worker is a productive worker,” are
either entirely false or true onl