LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter, students should be able to: 1-1 Define organizational behavior and organizations. 1-2 Explain why organizational behavior knowledge is important for you and for organizations. 1-3 Describe the anchors on which organizational behavior knowledge is based. 1-4 Summarize the workplace trends of diversity and the inclusive workplace, work-life integration, remote work, and emerging employment relationships. 1-5 Describe the four factors that directly influence individual behavior and performance. 1-6 Summarize the five types of individual behavior in organizations. CHAPTER GLOSSARY ability  the learned capabilities and natural aptitudes required to successfully complete a task corporate social responsibility (CSR)  organizational activities intended to benefit society and the environment beyond the firm’s immediate financial interests or legal obligations counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs)  voluntary behaviors that have the potential to directly or indirectly harm the organization deep-level diversity  differences in the psychological characteristics of employees, including personalities, beliefs, values, and attitudes evidence-based management  the practice of making decisions and taking actions based on research evidence human capital  the knowledge, skills, abilities, creative thinking, and other valued resources that employees bring to the organization inclusive workplace  a workplace that values people of all identities and allows them to be fully themselves while contributing to the organization MARS model  a model depicting the four variables motivation, ability, role perceptions, and situational factorsâ€â€that directly influence an individual’s voluntary behavior and performance motivation  the forces within a person that affect his or her direction, intensity, and persistence of effort for voluntary behavior open systems  the view that organizations depend on the external environment for resources, affect that environment through their output, and consist of internal subsystems that transform inputs to outputs organizational behavior (OB)  the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs)  various forms of cooperation and helpfulness to others that support the organization’s social and psychological context. organizational effectiveness  an ideal state in which an organization has a good fit with its external environment, effectively transforms inputs to outputs through human capital, and satisfies the needs of key
