CHAPTER 8

Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

Why Study Organizational Behavior and Human Resources?

People are the engine for getting things done in any organization. Studying how people think and act so that you can get the best work out of people is an important management skill. It’s even more important when you have responsibility without authority as project and program managers do.

Organizational behavior (OB) and human resources (HR) are different disciplines that both center on the people side of organizations. OB is sometimes considered a subset of HR, but it is a complex and important field with theories that have enormous application to project and program management as we work with, and through, other people. Traditional ...

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