Abstract
Organizational behavior is a discipline of the social sciences, much like cultural anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. It uses the scientific methodology to establish truth and to validate its theories. There are three basic building blocks for organizational theory: anthropology, sociology, and psychology. These key disciplines will be developed in the second part of the document. This field is a relatively new discipline as compared to other social sciences, because it has its origins in the middle of the twentieth century. The behavioral movement in management was is a direct result of the frustration experienced with the classical school's failure to explain individual behavior within organizations. Organizational behavior therefore focuses on the behavior and nature of the people within organizations, and also with the behavior and nature of organizations within their environments. This interdisciplinary behavioral science is consequently theoretical and micro-oriented. It refers to individual and group dynamics in an organizational setting.
