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In the early twentieth century, early studies in the complexities of organizational activity got underway. Initial studies were mostly mechanical. Being treated like machines, the humans were subjected to close scrutiny and study. The aspects studied were how the human behaved during regular applied testing of a person's responses to stimuli. Another stream of ideas that were part of study organizations were divided according to their political preferences, and the various levels of management throughout the entire organizations. Unfortunately there was a limitation to both of these because they did not bear in mind the interaction between the two connected streams but treated each as a separate entity. Parts of the History of Organizational Behavior Studies can be seen during the 1890's. During this time scientific management was viewed as the best way to run an organization.

An organization that in its' course of action adheres to a set of guidelines and guides itself on findings of time and motion studies, is bound to achieve greater levels of productivity - claimed the advocates of this system. It became clear that organizations were centered on interactive groups of their members, and a more humanistic view needed to be formulated as psychology and analysis as a means of understanding human behavior became more sophisticated. By understanding and using psychology productivity will improve tremendously. The Human Relations Movement, as it was called in the beginning of the 20th century, brought focus on collaboration, influence, and the aspect of particular persons understanding the intent of the organization.


By the Second World War, a paradigm shift had occurred in the study of organizational behavior. The new buzzword was operations research, and more and more people became interested in sciences, systems theories, complexity theories and strategies. At the time, James March and Herbert Simon were leading experts in the field. Many theories were coming forth as the seventies came around. More often than not the basis for this was quantitative research and interconnected realms of psychology. By the 1980s how important the cultures of different organizations was emphasized instead of the amount and quality of the research.

Anthropology was but one of many fields being added into studies about organizational behaviors. Presently any managerial course has organizational behavior studies as its integral part. As part of the curriculum many business schools now include this and related courses in fields such as industrial psychology. The name of the person who runs the History of Organizational Behavior Studies Internet site is Patricia Jones.com. See more on Organizational Behaviors. This article may only be used if the author bio and links are included.

The environmental stressors have great impact on work performance and adjustment of the individual in an organization. Discuss the different categories of environmental stressors

Noise- has many negative effects on workers. The most severe one is permanent hearing loss. It can also affect performance in cases when the level of noise is very very high and when the tasks are demanding.

Temperature- extreme temperature conditions can be very stressful. Performance is deteriorated under hot temperatures during physical tasks. For demanding mental tasks, performance deteriorates under heat exposure, particularly when two or more tasks are timeshared or performed simultaneously.

Cold exposure can be a problem too. Apart from health risks, little is known about its effect on performance. We know for sure that manual performance is severely affected by cold temperatures (finger dexterity).

Repetition- repetitive and routinized tasks are associated with monotony and boredom, negative attitudes toward work, etc. machine-paced jobs are especially stressful and cause depression, job dissatisfaction and anxiety apart from stress. This happens because workers have no control over work.

Because these factors influence physical health of workers, governments often regulate the levels of exposure to these stressors in industrial settings.
 
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