Cutting out all the BS, Org. Beh plus HRM is very much the same as IO Psychology

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In  a nutshell the essential difference is as follows:

Organisational Behaviour is an understanding of how the structure of the organisation impacts / affects the individuals and teams within the organisation; principally at the employee level.  The knowledge and appreciation of organisation behaviour is typically intended to assist and support the managers and supervisors of the business to better understand effects of organisation on employees and so better manage their organisation.

The body of knowledge comprising  Industrial/Organsational psychology comes to us from the profession of Industrial/Organisational Psychology.  The professionals in this domain may be termed I/O psychologists, Occupational psychologists, Work psychologists, Organisational psychologists in various jurisdictions.   Practitioners are experts and skilled in treating with diagnosing and improving the well-being of the members of the organisation (eg motivation, stress, defensiveness, prosocial and antisocial behaviours, engagement, commitment, satisfaction, attitudes, team dynamics etc).

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Silburn,

Thank you for answer.

Well, Is there any difference between organizational behavior and work psychology when working in organizational commitment, job satisfaction and motivation?

Can we define positive factor of work psychology that organizational commitment, job satisfaction and motivation?

The above answers are all comprehensive to elaborate the differences. However, in my opinion the fundamental differences are the following:

1: I/O psychology studies the behaviour of the human elements in the organization only from psychological perspective. Other approaches are not considered for analysis.

OB, on the other hand  explains all the approaches such as, sociological, anthropological, systems etc.

2.  I/O psychology only deals with the individual and group dimensions of behaviour. The study of organization, its structure, design, power, politics, culture etc. do not come under its purview.

OB discusses them all and considers everything.

3.  I/O psychology is essentially for maintaining. It can hardly explains phenomena like change, development.

change and development are essential parts of OB.

To answer your next question for  dimensions such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction and motivation may be explained both by organizational behavior and work psychology. However, OB will develop a much bigger canvas for explaining such phenomena while work psychology would explain it only from the angle of human psychology. 

Well, I have always been believed the two as very close to work organisations. OB may afford to leave the areas that pertains to worker management relations, and deal with in-depth study of human behaviour...OB would deal more with research and theories, whereas I/O psychology can be designed to be able to tap the practice aspect of work organisations. Having said this, I also believe that it is upon the instructor and teachers/facilitatora how they want to look at both of these. The boundaries virtually collapse at times. 

Cutting out all the BS, Org. Beh plus HRM is very much the same as IO Psychology

As usual, Ed Locke is right. There are more differences between individual scientist/practitioners who use each label than there are between Business School OB, Industrial/Labor Relations HRM and Psychology Department I/O.

Yes.... In Indian context, HRM would have a significant portion as discussion on relevant laws. I/O psychology would not have this part. 

I think both are interdependent,but in earlier terminology subject matter of industrial psychology is more related with all the aspects such as job satisfaction,performance appraisal etc.while  OB is more connected with one particular organisation and behaviour related with its different dimensions.

I disagree with Rajashree- you can see from the journals and textbbooksthat there is huge overlap---

Yes in someway Edwin said it right.but subject matter is elaborative n explainatory.

Sociologists study structure/relationships, psychologists study parts/individuals. OB is sociological while OS is psychological.