Behavioral Theory – Organization Behavior

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Behavioral Theory – Organization Behavior The criticism of classical theory as too mechanistic results in a new theory of organization that emphasized that organizations are made up of human beings and orders and policies will be subject to reinterpretation in the light of psychological “set” of those who transmit them or carry them out as well as the social environment. The people in the organization are motivated by many forces beside those taken into account by the classicists and employees of an organization are often seeking goals different from those expressed in the organization manual. Theory developed in the field of organization design and management based on behavioral variables of human beings in the subject of organization behavior. Chester Barnard was probably the first of the behavioral theorists of organization (Dale, 1965). Chester Barnard Barnard stressed the influence of psychological and social factors on organization effectiveness and emphasized that the economic motive, on which business organization depends for incentive, is only of those that influence human beings, even when they are part of organizations as employees after signing a contract. Chester Barnard’s book, The Functions of the Executive was published in 1938(Barnard, 1938). Herbert A. Simon Barnard’s theories were further developed by Herbert A. Simon in his book Administrative Behavior (Simon, 1957). E. White Bakke Bakke pointed out that the individual in organization hopes to use the organization to further his own goals, while the organization attempts to use the individual to further its goals. In the process of working, the organization to some degree remakes the individual and the individual to some degree remakes the organization (Bakke, 1953). Bakke put forward the concepts of personalizing process and fusion process in organizations.
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