Goals of Organizational Behavior.

Organizational behavior is concerned with developing people skills. Therefore, the goals of organizational behavior are to help us to explain, predict, and control human behavior. When we seek answers to why an individual or a group of individuals did something, we are pursuing the explanation objective. It is probably the least important of the three goals from a management perspective because it occurs after the fact. Yet, if we are to understand a phenomenon, we …

…the subjects of that control may be unaware that their behavior is being manipulated, has been viewed in come circles as unethical and repugnant. Organizational behavior offer technologies that facilitate the control of people. Whether those technologies should be used in organizations becomes an ethical question. We should be aware, however, that the control objective is frequently seen by managers as the most valuable contribution that organizational behavior makes toward their effectiveness on the job.