What is Organizational Behavior?

time on a particular job

• tenure

• seniority

biographical characteristics

• age, gender, race, disability, and length of service

• time on a particular job

• work experience

• any characteristic that makes people different from one another

differences in gender, race, ethnicity, age, or disability

• workplace diversity

• deep-level diversity

• surface-level diversity

• discrimination

tenure

• work experience

• differences in values, personality, and work preferences

• time on a particular job

• mental activities—thinking, reasoning, and problem solving

allowing our behavior to be influenced by stereotypes about groups of people

• intellectual activity

• discrimination

• diversity management

• tenure

deep-level diversity

• differences in gender, race, ethnicity, age, or disability

• any characteristic that makes people different from one another

• differences in values, personality, and work preferences

ability

• the capacity to do mental activities—thinking, reasoning, and problem

• an individual’s current capacity to perform the various tasks in a job

• differences in values, personality, and work preferences

makes everyone more aware of and sensitive to the needs and differences of others

• intellectual abilities

• workplace diversity

• discrimination

• diversity management

the capacity to do mental activities—thinking, reasoning, and problem solving

• ability

• intellectual abilities

• diversity management

• seniority

workplace diversity

• differences in gender, race, ethnicity, age, or disability

• differences in values, personality, and work preferences

• any characteristic that makes people different from one another