Elizabeth M. Reynolds
Course # Organizational Behavior SP19BN380
March 5th, 2019
Instructor:
Terry Whitson
Organizational behavior is the study of the many factors that have an impact on
how people and groups act, think, feel, and respond to work and organizations and how
organizations respond to their environment. Organizational behavior is important because it
opens the ability to learn about the personalities of employees and how to run an organization
with employees who have a positive or negative affect to the company. To better understand
organization behavior, it can be broken down into three components. Those components consist
of individual, group, and organization. An organization cannot be anything without its
employees. Employees need to work in a positive environment to reach company goals.
Organizational behavior focuses on aspects such as individual differences, work values, attitudes
perception, and creativity. Organizational behavior also focus on how effective teamwork is,
how employees with different personalities can work together, communication, culture, structure,
