Employees naturally behave differently at work than they do in social settings, largely due to the structured organizational environment of business. A variety of factors influence organizational ...

Organizational structure is the grouping of people to accomplish work. It establishes relationships among a business's managers and workers, giving them authority to carry out responsibilities.

Ask executives why performance is lagging, and the answers usually point to people. The team lacks motivation. The manager is ineffective. The hires are a poor fit. The culture is broken. These ...

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As a popular non-market strategy, corporate political activity (CPA) benefits a firm’s risk management and competitive advantage. However, the mechanism of promoting firms to engage in corporate ...

Chris Argyris, one of the world’s leading thinkers about organizational behavior and a member of the Yale faculty for 20 years, died on Nov. 16. He was 90 years old. Chris Argyris at the 2011 Yale ...

Every group of people has a culture, a way of understanding and expressing the world, their group, and themselves. Organizations are no exception. Research shows that the leadership of an organization ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. What truly defines a business’s identity and operational environment? The answers lie in the concepts of organizational culture ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

The Organizational Behavior (OB) doctoral program is a research-based program where students work with world-renowned scholars to build skills that will prepare them for impactful careers as ...