Biases in perception

Bias … a word that ranges from tendency to prejudice.  Some of the most common biases studied in organizational behavior are: Primacy effect – the first impression, quick to appear but it last long. It is the main people selection tool that you use everyday. Try not to judge employees or employers based on that. You...

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Social Loafing

A team justifies its existence only if it brings added value through numbers. That means if 1+1=3. An employee has the tendency to ‘free-ride”. It is human nature. Social loafing is an organizational behavior of an employee that makes less effort in a team compared with the way he behaves next to an individual task. The...

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What is a Team?

An effective team is not just a bunch of people put together. It is about complementarity of employee’s competencies, it takes time and if one member leaves, the team hurts. A team does not have what is called “group thinking”. A team does not a leader as in somebody to lead. A team needs a manager that is, most of...

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Individual Performance vs. Teamwork in pay strategies

There are companies that have smart people in charge of implementing the business strategy. They look also at the long-term goals of company. It is the same with human resources specialists that understand what organizational development is about. Individual performance is important, but a company is not formed from one individual....

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Organizational behavior – definition

Organizational behavior is, as simple as possible said, the representation of people’s dynamics in an organized environment: company, public sector or NGO = a collective person. Dynamics, in physics, is the study of the causes of motion and its five variables: momentum, force, potential energy, pressure and power. Momentum is...

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