--- title: Organizational Behavior description: This topic examines how individuals and groups behave within organizations. Learners will understand the impact of culture, motivation, group dynamics, and power structures on employee performance and organizational effectiveness. category: business-entrepreneurship subcategory: business-fundamentals difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/organizational-behavior --- # Organizational Behavior This topic examines how individuals and groups behave within organizations. Learners will understand the impact of culture, motivation, group dynamics, and power structures on employee performance and organizational effectiveness. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 3 Courses • 2 Websites • 1 Papers ## Websites ### 1. OpenStax Organizational Behavior Explore organizational behavior with OpenStax's free, openly licensed textbook. Learn key concepts and improve your workplace skills! **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://openstax.org/details/books/organizational-behavior **Tags:** organizational-behavior, open-textbook, management, motivation, leadership ### 2. hbr.org Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://hbr.org **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ## Courses ### 1. Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods (MIT 16.660J) **Author:** Earll Murman, Hugh McManus, Annalisa Weigel et al. Principles, practices and tools behind modern productivity improvement in aerospace, automotive and health care organizations. Offers 17 lecture videos with industry practitioner talks and instructor insights, giving learners a working grasp of lean waste reduction and Six Sigma process improvement. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-660j-introduction-to-lean-six-sigma-methods-january-iap-2012/ **Tags:** lean-six-sigma, lean-manufacturing, process-improvement, quality-management ### 2. Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 12 hours videos, quizzes, and homework | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/emotional-intelligence-leadership **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 3. Organizational Behavior Stanford course taught by Daniel McFarland that runs eleven theoretical lenses over real cases: rational decision-making, coalitions, garbage-can anarchy, learning, culture, resource dependency, networks, institutional theory, population ecology. Students finish able to diagnose why an organization behaves as it does. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/organizational-analysis **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ## Papers ### 1. Kurt Lewin's Change Theory in the Field and in the Classroom: Notes Toward a Model of Managed Learning **Author:** Edgar H. Schein Schein reinterprets Lewin's unfreeze-change-refreeze model as managed learning. Explains why change starts only when survival anxiety exceeds learning anxiety, and why creating psychological safety, rather than adding pressure, is the lever that actually unfreezes an organization. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/2576 **Tags:** change-management, organizational-learning, kurt-lewin, psychological-safety, organizational-psychology ## Books ### 1. Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization **Author:** Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey Harvard developmental psychologists recast resistance as a hidden competing commitment that protects an existing assumption. The immunity map exercise lets readers surface the beliefs keeping individuals and teams from adopting behaviors they sincerely say they want. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1422117367?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** immunity-to-change, adult-development, behavior-change, change-management, organizational-psychology ### 2. Principles: Life and Work **Author:** Ray Dalio Ray Dalio sets out the life and management principles he developed running Bridgewater Associates: radical truth and transparency, believability-weighted decision-making, learning from mistakes, and designing organizations as machines. Readers learn a structured method for making decisions and building teams that confront disagreement openly. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Life-Work-Ray-Dalio/dp/1501124021?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** decision-making, organizational-culture, management, radical-transparency, leadership ### 3. Essentials of Organizational Behavior **Author:** Stephen P. Robbins A stripped-down survey of workplace behavior research: motivation, perception, personality, decision-making, team dynamics, leadership, communication, culture and change. Readers finish able to name the evidence behind common management practices and judge which ones hold up. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0130353094?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ### 4. Behavior in Organizations **Author:** Jerald Greenberg, Robert A. Baron Comprehensive textbook applying social and industrial psychology to workplaces, covering individual differences, motivation, stress, group processes, power, conflict, leadership and organizational design. Includes cases and self-assessments; readers finish able to diagnose behavioral problems in real firms. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0130852805?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/organizational-behavior