What are the features of the Robbins Study of Organizational Behavior?
The study opens with a description of all the activities which form a major part of KRAs for a manager. This includes all the managerial activities like Making decisions, allocating resources. This is succeeded by the Robbins definition of Organization. Organizational Behavior Robbins categorizes all the activities of the management into four categories – Organizing, Planning, Controlling and Leading. Robbins then uses the Mintzberg’s model for describing the different managerial roles. Robbins arrives at different categories of managers – Interpersonal, Informational, Decisional. Each category has subcategories which identifies with a particular trait of the manager. Robbins underlines the importance of this classification because it is important for the business owners to understand his management team. Robbins would go on to describe different managerial skills – Technical, Human and Conceptual. After such a heavy dose of introduction to the entities responsible for implementation o
