Organizational behavior, at this level of analysis massively draws upon psychology, engineering, and medicine. At the individual level of analysis, organizational behavior includes the study of learning, perception, creativity, motivation, and personality.
In addition, it also includes the study of turnover, task performance and evaluation, coordinated behavior, deviant work behavior, ethics, and cognition.
For example − Ram joins a company as an intern and is very open to learning new things but as time passes and he gets promoted his attitude towards his interns becomes rude. This is a fine example of individual level of analysis.
Group Level of Analysis
Organizational behavior, at this level of analysis, draws upon the sociological and socio-psychological discipline. At the group level of analysis, organizational behavior includes the study of group gesture, intra-group and intergroup dispute and attachment.
It is further extended to the study of leadership, power, norms, interpersonal communication, networks, and roles.
An example of this level of analysis − Board of directors of company X decide to give bonus to their workers as they have really worked hard on a certain project.
People usually migrate for economic reasons, cultural reasons, and envirenmentel reasons. They choose their destination by examining political, evvironmental, and economic oull facter. All of these reasons push people to migrate to certian places.
The New World introduced the Eastern Hemisphere to vanilla, tobacco, beans, cacao (which can be harvested to make chocolate), pumpkins, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, pepper, avocados, and peanuts.
Spain was in debt from wars and Isabella and Ferdinand turned away Christopher Columbus's ideas of venturing/trading outside of Afro-Eurasia but once he promised to bring back riches (ie silver and gold) they granted his request and he set sail to "discover" what he thought was India but ended up in the Americas. This led to the development of 2 great trading systems: the Columbian Exchange and the Atlantic system. Things that were mostly traded were sugar, silver, and slaves (the 3 s's). Allowed Europe to venture out amongst Asian waters, which later inspired others to do the same (French, English, Dutch, etc).
