ADVERTISEMENTS: “Organisational behaviour is directly concerned with the understanding, production and control of human behaviour in organisations.”-Fred Luthans. It applies broadly to the behaviour of people in all types of organisation.”- Newstrom and Davis.

“Organisational behaviour is the study and application of knowledge about how people act within an organisation. “Organisational behaviour is a branch of the Social Sciences that seeks to build theories that can be applied” to predicting, understanding and controlling behaviour in work organisations.”-Raman J. Definitions: “Organisational behaviour is a subset of management activities concerned with understanding, predicting and influencing individual behaviour in organisational setting.”-Callahan, Fleenor and Kudson. ADVERTISEMENTS: Read this article to learn about the definition, characteristics and nature of organisational behaviour.