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RGANIZATIONAL
ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
BEHAVIOR
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Structure
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Understanding the Term ‘Organizational Behavior’
14.3 Personality and Organization
14.3.1 Measuring Personality
14.3.2 Work Motivation
14.3.3 Motivation: Improving Factors
14.4 Job Satisfaction and Reward Management
14.4.1 Measuring Job Satisfaction, its Determinants and Consequences
14.4.2 Effective Reward Management
14.5 Leadership
14.5.1 Scope of Leadership
14.5.2 Suggested Qualities of Leadership
14.5.3 Leadership and Management
14.6 Authority, Power and Politics
14.6.1 Distinction between Authority and Power
14.6.2 Authority
14.6.3 Power
14.6.4 Politics
14.7 Apply What You Have Learnt
Learning Objectives
After going through the Unit 14 on Organizational Behavior, it is expected that you would be able to
Understand organizational behavior in its broadest multi-disciplinary context
Familiarise yourself with the theoretical and practical aspects of organizational behavior (OB).
Appreciate the role of leadership in organizing community-based activities related to adult education.
Discuss the relevance of the interplay between authority, power and politics.
14.1 Introduction
Running or managing an adult learning set-up involves some basic principles of organization that an adult educator has to keep in mind and follow while performing various functions. For
example, all such centers have staff members who need to be trained, motivated, satisfied and well-informed.
Since running a learning resource setup is a managerial task, it is essential
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that those running such centers understand some basic principles of organizational behavior and routine management principles so that they can manage their respective centre in a better way. Unit 14 makes an effort to explain the basic and important principles of organizational behavior so as to equip the centre-in-charges with the theoretical