... . Organizational behavior further understands the impact of people and organizations to implement improvements for a more effective and efficient organization. Several social disciplines have had an impact on the birth of the field of organizational behavior. "The predominant areas are psychology, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and political science- (Robbins 12). Psychology, the study of human behavior, influences includes work performance to recently job satisfaction ... and training. Sociology researched the origin, development, and evolution of people. Social psychology,...

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... of Natural History as an assistant curator of ethnology (Billings, 2010). Ethnology is the science of classifying mankind into races. Her goal was to make Americans understand cultural anthropology in the same manner that they understood archaeology. Elise Boulding has been labeled as the matriarch of the twentieth century peace research movement (Morrison, 2005). Boulding participated in ... movements of peace, women's studies and futures. She was a peace educator and activist before starting her scholarly career. She conducted theoretical work on the role of families and social change...

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... by taking time to take the perspective of another culture before passing judgement. It is mainly a side effect of a lack of knowledge. Studying cultural realism is "difficult [in] that whereas anthropology and sociology are empirical sciences, fields of study based on observations and facts, ethics is a normative discipline, based on judgments and moral values [but] a scientist can only predict a certain outcome ... the environment surrounding it. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism are two polar opposites ways of viewing the world and its ethics. There is no right way to approach the...

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... of behavioral disciplines (Robbins, 2001, p. 12). These disciplines support the different behaviors of the organization. Psychology focuses on the individual behaviors, while sociology, and social psychology, are concerned with the group and structures within the organization. Anthropology studies the differences in behavior and attitude at the macro level, while political science contributes the understanding of behaviors within a political environment. As organizations in ... ...

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