The Focus and Purpose of Organizational Behavior - Robbins and Judge

Organizational behavior helps potential managers develop the people skills.

Dependent Variables in Organizational Behavior

A dependent variable is the key factor that you want to predict when some other factor is changed.

Productivity, absenteeism, turnover, and job satisfaction are the traditional dependent variables in Organizational behavior.  More  recently, two more variables: deviant work place behavior and organizational citizenship behavior have been added to the list.