ABSTRACT
What is organizational behavior? It is a social science discipline—much like cultural anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. That means that it utilizes the scientific method to establish truth and to validate its theories. It is a discipline that historically has had its intellectual home in business schools. It is a new discipline relative to the other social sciences, having its origins in the middle twentieth century. The key points are that it is a science and that it has a history that, though short, has been quite turbulent.
