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Chapter III · For students
A comprehensive, illustrated reference for students and curious learners — exploring every major theory across the three levels of analysis — Individual, Group, and Organisational.
You don't need to have worked in an organisation to understand Organisational Behaviour. Every theory in this guide plays out first in the places you already know — your family home, your friend group, your school, your sports team, your WhatsApp group.
The videos and examples in this guide are designed to meet you there first, so that when you do enter the workplace, you'll recognise what's happening because you've already lived a version of it.
Personality, motivation, perception, learning, and attitudes — the building blocks of behaviour.
Maslow · Herzberg · McClelland · Alderfer
What motivates people? The internal needs and drives that energise human behaviour at work.
Vroom · Adams · Locke · Skinner
How does motivation work? The cognitive processes through which people become motivated, make decisions, and regulate their behaviour over time.
Big Five · MBTI · Holland
A relatively stable set of characteristics, traits, and tendencies that shape how an individual thinks, feels, and behaves.
Heider · Kelley · Social perception
How individuals select, organise, and interpret information — so the same event can produce entirely different responses.
Pavlov · Skinner · Bandura · Festinger · Rokeach
Any relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a result of experience.
Kohlberg · Bentham & Mill · Kant · Freeman · Rest · Victor & Cullen · Bandura
The moral principles and values that guide individual and organisational decision-making.
Leadership, teamwork, communication, conflict, and power dynamics between people.
Tuckman · Belbin · Tajfel & Turner
How people interact, influence each other, and develop shared norms and identities within teams.
Trait · Behavioural · Contingency · Contemporary
From leadership as an innate trait to a dynamic, relational, and context-dependent process.
French & Raven · Shannon-Weaver
The five sources leaders draw power from — and how messages break down between sender and receiver.
Thomas-Kilmann · Fisher & Ury
Managed well, conflict stimulates creativity and improves decisions. Managed poorly, it damages relationships and performance.
Structure, culture, change management, and systems that shape the entire organisation.
Weber · Taylor · Mintzberg
How activities, roles, and authority are formally arranged within a firm.
Schein · Hofstede
The shared set of values, beliefs, and assumptions that define "how things are done around here."
Lewin · Kotter · ADKAR
From unfreezing the status quo to embedding new practices into culture, processes, and reward systems.
Katz & Kahn · von Bertalanffy
Organisations as complex, dynamic, and interdependent entities rather than simple machines.
Karasek · Bakker & Demerouti
Employee well-being is no longer a peripheral concern — it is a strategic priority.
The three columns above — Individual, Group, Organisational — and the topics inside each.
15topicsiiEvery theory across the three levels, indexed alphabetically with its author and core idea.
49theoriesiiiEach topic opens with a video that begins in your personal world — before connecting it to the organisational concept.
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