An understanding of employee behavior is essential if managers are to successfully carry out their responsibilities.

In recent years we have come to understand that it does not suffice us, as managers, to emphasize the positive, desirable behaviors facilitating the performance of individuals, teams and systems in furthering organizational objectives. An understanding of employee misbehavior is also called for if we are to depict organizational life in a realistic fashion. That is, we need to focus not only on the positive but also on the study of problem behaviors that are prevalent in organizational life. This workshop will explore some of the available theory and research concerning workplace misbehavior (OMB), we will identify the antecedents of OMB, the different manifestations of OMB, and try to determine their causes and costs. We will also attempt to determine ways in which expressions of OMB may be managed and their costs reduced.

• The history of management and the study of Organizational Behavior (OB) and Organizational MisBehavior (OMB);
• Manifestations of OMB: From incivility to "Going Postal";
• A general framework of OMB;
• OMB and our workplace;
• A model of OMB and OMB management.

• Business Directors
• Managers
• Head of Department
• Coaches
• Team Builders
• Facilitators
• Executives and Officers

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Ely Weitz is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University. He holds a Ph.D. in Labor Studies from Tel Aviv University. Weitz heads the department’s Executive Master’s Programme in Labor Studies designed expressly for human resources practitioners. He has recently spent two years as a Visiting Professor at Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business. Prior to coming to Tel Aviv University, Weitz served in the Israel Defense Forces (lieutenant colonel, retired) where he worked as an organizational consultant and did comprehensive work on organizational structure and design. Weitz also worked for Chemical Bank, NY, in their Human Resources Division.

His research interests include organization theory, management history, management and organization development, and misbehavior in organizations. Weitz has recently published a book on organizational misbehavior (with Y. Vardi) entitled Misbehavior in Organizations: Theory, Research and Management. Dr. Weitz is the Chair of the Israeli Industrial Relations Research Association.