1. After reading the critical reflection you will see the statement which reads "The study of organizational behavior is really an art which pretends that it is a science and produces some spurious research findings to prove the point".
2. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?
3. Based on your understanding of organizational behavior why might it be considered a science by some?

In your understanding of behaviour and managing people at work - as in life more generally - it is worth remembering the 'Bag of Gold' syndrome. However hard you try or whatever you do there will always be some people you just cannot seem to please. Give them a bag of gold and they will complain that the bag is the wrong colour, or it is too heavy to carry, or why could you not give them a cheque instead! What are your own views? What happens within organizations affects what happens outside and vice versa. Organizational behaviour is seen chiefly as being about the particular ways that individual's dispositions are expressed in an organizational setting and about the effects of this expression. While at work there is rest and play. What happens in rest and play, both inside and outside the organization, impacts on organizational life. We can also gain insight into organizational behaviour by looking at less organized work, like work 'on the fiddle', and what work means to the unemployed. Wilson, F. M. Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction, Oxford University Press (1999), pp. 1-2. How would you explain the meaning and nature of organisational behaviour, and how it is influenced? 'The study of organisational behaviour is really an art which pretends that it is a science and produces some spurious research findings to try to prove the point.' Debate