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Levels of Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior can be analyzed at three levels - the individual level, group level, and organizational level. At the individual level, behavior is studied in terms of personal traits like attitudes, motivation, and personality. At the group level, behavior is studied in the context of team dynamics, collaboration, and decision making. At the organizational level, behavior is analyzed in relation to the company structure, culture, and external environment. Understanding human behavior at these three interrelated levels helps managers develop effective strategies for motivating employees, managing groups, and ensuring organizational success.

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Levels of Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior can be analyzed at three levels - the individual level, group level, and organizational level. At the individual level, behavior is studied in terms of personal traits like attitudes, motivation, and personality. At the group level, behavior is studied in the context of team dynamics, collaboration, and decision making. At the organizational level, behavior is analyzed in relation to the company structure, culture, and external environment. Understanding human behavior at these three interrelated levels helps managers develop effective strategies for motivating employees, managing groups, and ensuring organizational success.

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3 Levels of Organizational Behavior

Analysis
Levels of Organizational Behavior
Organizational behavior is concerned with the study of human
behavior in organizations, the relation between people and
organization, how they influence each other, and developing
productive relations between them to realize desired goals.
Organizational behavior studies human behavior in the organization
on three main levels.

The three levels are individual level, group or team level, and
organizational level. At all these levels OB analyses the behavior of
people on how, why, and what causes their behavior in organizational
settings.

Let’s understand OB’s levels of analysis separately.

Individual Level
This is the first level of OB analysis. At the individual
level, organizational behavior studies the behavior of an individual
person such as his/her attitudes, motivation, perception, personality,
values, ethics, satisfaction, and other personal traits.

The concept of psychology plays important role in the individual-level


analysis. The individuals working in the organization are the very
existence of the organization. Each individual’s behavior is different
from others, as it is natural, and some are affected by social, cultural,
and other social variables.
A manager using his psychology, knowledge, and experience should
carefully study the individual traits and characteristics of his individual
employees. Understanding these attributes helps managers to come
up with ideas to develop better and more positive approaches to
organizational systems.

Group Level
The organization also consists of different groups and teams. The
group-level analysis of OB studies the behavior of people at the group
level, how groups work, why they interact in group work, collaboration,
group decisions, etc.

A group is a people who come together to reach some common goals.


They can be small or large and formal or informal. In a group people
work together, one’s actions affect others, they are dependent on each
other, and the goal is achieved through collective effort.

Sociology, social psychology, and anthropology play an important role


in studying at this level. In addition, here OB analyses group dynamics,
organizational conflicts, politics, communication, etc.

By understanding the behavior of group-level managers can develop


ideas on how to effectively handle groups in the organization and lead
them.

Organizational Level
At this last level organizational behavior analyses how the organization
works. It mainly studies how people interact with organizational
structure, how the organization with them, and how the external
environment forces interact with the organization.
Its major variables such as work environment, organizational structure,
culture, change, politics, and environment within and outside of the
organization. In fact, it is the study of how to manage individuals,
groups, or teams effectively in the organization. Sociology,
anthropology, and political science are the major disciplines
contributing to this level.

The study organizational level helps managers to understand the


performance of individuals and groups and how they are contributing
to the organization. By getting this, a manager can develop suitable
plans, policies, motivation programs, design jobs, manage change, etc.
in order to run the organization smoothly.

Conclusion…

All these three levels of organizational behavior are interrelated to


each other. A careful analysis of these OB levels helps managers to
better understand every employee, create a group of enthusiastic
individuals, and assign them an organizational task which increases
the potentiality of achieving the given task.

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