If I am the HOD, I would explain that OB is a wide area of management that studies how people behave in organizations. OB is also a type of learning in which people learns behaviors and facts by observing the behaviors of individual, group and structure. People can use theories and knowledge of OB to develop better management practices. Thus, these behaviors influence the organization’s performance. Below are some ways how I would convince Li Lian to sign up for the course. • Situation analysis:
2 CHAPTER 1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND 1.1 Background of the Study Downsizing is a procedure that has been utilized generally by the organizations over the past two decades to face the entanglement developed with the different competitive surroundings. Downsizing is a kind of restructuring organizations in term of workforce degrading to get the required upgrade in work structure, restructure the organization and authorizing competent human resources to keep up the business intensity (Kulkarni, 2013)