Essays on Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior entails research on individuals within an organizational setting. Such research requires particular focus on the behavior of persons while alone (private individuals) or behavior of individuals while working as a team or a group (Sing). Studies on organizational behavior aim at actuating an understanding of the factors influencing groups and individual dynamics within organizational settings for better efficiency and effectiveness of these groups. Organizational behavior draws heavily from sociological and psychological sciences. Several levels of analysis are applied to understand individual behavior as the environment influences the acts of individuals working within it. These standards include the ...

Public Organizations Governmental or public organizations and the people in them are greatly affected by the developments that occur in the governmental and political context where they operate.

The governments of different countries try to improve their government agencies’ performance and management by employing a pattern of “organizing, reorganizing, reforming, and striving” (Rainey, 2014, p.4).

The management of public and private organizations is very different from each other. The study of organizational behavior originated from social and industrial psychology. It focuses on the behaviors of groups and individuals in organizations and analyzes the behaviors and attitudes of organizational members, ...

This essay will first briefly discuss the concept of diversity management and its influence on the workplace and organizational performance, then it will analyse the diversity management in one of the most prominent high-tech companies of the world, which is Google, by integrating theory with practical examples. It will then make certain conclusions based on the analysis. Patrick and Kumar (2012) define diversity management as the process of creating effective and positive work environment that respects and value the differences to maximize the performance towards achieving organizational goals. Bassett-Jones (2005) notices that ‘diversity management’ is mostly related to recruitment ...

Change is an integral component of successfully operating and sustaining a business. Ashland Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is no stranger to the problems and issues that arise in the struggle to achieve change within the organization. The company began in 1924 and had passed through multiple stages of change in order to become a company of an international scale . It steadily grew as it acquired various companies to gain strategic advantages in the market. The company has strived to follow a unified, efficient and low-cost structure to achieve success, as is mentioned in its mission statement. Honesty, integrity, ...

Organizational behavior encompasses the understanding of how individuals and groups within organizations behave, and examines how the behavior of individuals in the workplace influences the performance of the organization and the motivation level of employees. It is specifically related to the various concerns of employees like job satisfaction, work environment, absenteeism, employee performance, overall productivity and employment turnover (Robbins & Judge, 2015). Organizational behavior is primarily shaped by the environment in which an organization functions along with the choices of the leadership. In other words, the behavior of leaders and the top management shapes the culture and way of functioning ...

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were students at Stanford (Google.com n.p.). Originally, the search engine was called BackRub and was later renamed to Google in 1997 (Google.com n.p.). By December of 1998 Google was considered the best search engine according to PC Magazine (Google.com n.p.). Since then Google has begun AdWords, the Google toolbar, Gmail, Google+ and more.

Google’s purpose is to create innovative technologies to improve the web and people’s ability to use the web (Google.com n.p.).

While they are known for their amazing search engine, so much so that searching ...

The result of the “Bog Five Personality Test” appreciated my enthusiasm and will power and regarded me as an open person. However, from the perspective of Conscientiousness, I scored a bit low. The elements of Extraversion and Agreeableness were regarded as the strength of my personality, but Neuroticism was regarded as the major shortcoming of my personality. I strongly agree with the readings of the test because my personal experiences I often feel that if I had handled the situation calmly I would have achieved better results. Pertaining to the fact that I always feel ...

The sociotechnical systems theory believes that organizations are efficient when employees have the proper tools and resources to create goods and services that are valued by the customers. This theory states that if employees have proper tools then the organization will be more effective in the long run. Overall, sociotechnical systems theory sets to redesign jobs in order to optimize operation within an organization (Bateman & Snell, 2013, p. 35). Quantitative management uses mathematical models of the problems within an organization in order to help managers make decisions. These include statistics and network modeling. Organizations use these models to ...

Organizational change is necessarily intricate and multi-faceted, given the large number of problems and variables involved. Lewin’s change management model envisages, a planned and linear change. Lewin’s model suggests that change moves from one fixed state to the next through a number of planned steps. This was largely true half a century ago, because of the relatively simple and localized supply chains, slower and fewer technologies as well as communication systems. Lewin’s theory implies, in part that change is for companies that are struggling, and or choose to change to achieve a certain strategic goal. However, with stern global competition, ...

Article Summary The article is about the history of the emotional intelligence as a topic of study and the description of how it is being measured and defined. The article also refers to various studies relating emotional intelligence to essential work-related results such as organizational productivity and individual performance. People especially psychologists started to write on emotional intelligence, and they only concentrate on cognitive views. However, it is the cumulative or global scope of a person to think rationally, to act diligently and deal appropriately with his or her environment. Emotional intelligence refers to a social intelligence type that entails ...

Motivation refers to the internal and external reasons that stimulate or encourage people to act. Motivation can be used in companies to stimulate the workers to be interested in their jobs. The workers are motivated such as the pay method through various ways. The use of remuneration methods has different strengths and limitations. A limitation of the pay motivation method is that it is an extrinsic factor that is expected by the workers and as such may not work to motivate the employees since they think it is their right. This is in line with the Herzberg two-factor theory ...

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Stress has been part of human life ever since the beginning of mankind. Initially, people stressed themselves out hunting for food, finding places to rest, and inexplicability of natural phenomena. With the globalisation of industries and the presence of multinational companies all over the world, organizations may need to consider adopting certain policies to match up to other similar organizations. Stress in organisations has become a major issue in the UK and most organisations now have policies and procedures to help employees avoid this and interventions are often in place to support them. It is not known whether ...

Roberts (2003, p.89) argued that performance appraisal is a controversial management tool that provides answers to problems within the system design and administration of organizations. Majority of the organisations have adopted appraisal systems to enable it gauge employee performance in trying to boost morale, and reward them accordingly. However, despite the importance and popularity of the performance appraisal in organisations, its implementation and effectiveness have been controversial (Liu and Dong, 2012, pp. 150). In fact, some studies revealed that there are many performance appraisal systems that have completely failed to motivate employees to do a better job (Oh and Lewis, 2009, ...

Edward Demming, the father of modern Total Quality Management put forth one of his most enduring lessons for managers is his 85–15 rule. This set out that, when things go wrong, there is roughly an 85% chance the system (including management, machinery, and rules) is at fault. Only about 15% of the time is the individual employee at fault. However, Deming observed, the typical manager spends most of his or her time wrongly blaming and punishing individuals for system failures.

The field of Organizational Behavior seeks to integrate the learning from behavioral science studies to determine the ...

The contemporary organizations are operating in the information age characterized by rapid information sharing, stiff completion, unprecedented changes and divergent employees and customers particularly in cultural aspects. To be successful, an organization must strive to meet all the expectations of its clients as well those of its stakeholders and shareholders. Effective communication, work teams, goals setting, change management and the organization’s culture must be handled effective since compromising any of these aspects that are intertwined will ultimately compromise the success of an organization. As agents of change, managers are confronted by continuous modernization in computer and information expertise ...

One key pillar in the growth and success of any business is organizational behavior off all the employees whether in senior or junior positions. Unless employees have the right attitude in a business or organization, the overall performance is compromised. As much as management methods and working strategies differ, the goals and objectives are almost similar with organizational success being the main goal. Many organizations have failed due to poor organizational behavior, which ranges from the interaction between employees, and teamwork. Unless there is healthy organizational behavior, teamwork and success are hard to implement. Anybody working in any organization acts ...

The research focuses on both local and multinational companies and, therefore, wide research is required to obtain credible information. Research will be carried out using primary and secondary sources, the primary sources will include; interviews from management and employees in various local and multinational companies. Interviews provide first-hand information from the respondents; any clarifications that require to be made are easily made through interviews. The research involves asking more detailed information which is well asked in interviews. It is difficult to travel to all the multinational companies that will be involved in the research; video interviews will be done ...

Introduction Modern science contains significant range of different areas of knowledge that focus on people in the workplace and can potentially influence practice of organizations. Among these areas Hollway (1991) singles out scientific management, occupational industrial and social psychology, as well as human factors, human relations and organizational behavior (p.4). Above-mentioned areas play a crucial role in management studies, because concepts and approaches that are used in these areas of knowledge can be used to affect people within the organization. Management psychology studies encompass most significant achievements of the areas of knowledge, discussed above. While previously management psychology studies ...

The relative capacity of the modern world business to unravel the concept of Expatriate failure extensively is worth understanding. Thus, the exploration of the defining the Expatriate failure from a business perspective and the discoveries generated to provide an insight at which a business literature is designed. From a business perspective, the expatriate failure concept or definition has produced a point of argument or critique raising concerns in the world of business. Therefore, analysis presented in this document is helpful in understanding the concept or definition of expatriate failure and its comprehensive or sophisticated understanding (Tran, 2013). On a broad front, Expatriate failure associated ...

Organizational Behavior or OB is an emerging science that deals with the study of how people act and behave in an organization. For the same reason, the theories behind OB are closely related with social psychology as it deals with individuals and organizational behavior and how they are interrelated with each other. Owing to its psychological framework, OB has a wide scope as it encompass a variety of organizational studies such as organizational performance, employee motivation, leadership, team building, organizational structures an organizational management among many other organizational disciplines. The purpose of this paper is to determine how OB developed based ...

Introduction Dark leadership is defined as the “systemic and sustained behavior by an organizational leader that violates the organizational interests by denting and /or sabotaging the organizations tasks, resources, goals and effectiveness and/or the motivation , wellbeing or job satisfaction” (Sankar,2003, p.112). In recent years, organizational leaders have gained much recognition as agents of entrepreneurship and change. As much as many tend to focus on the positive elements associated with leaders certain liabilities or risks are also entailed (Herbst, 2014). These very behaviors have the power to produce problematic or devastating outcomes for their organizations. This usually takes ...

Leadership programs are crucial for ensuring that the organization has employees equipped with the right skills for leading other in various aspects. In that respect, this report presents a proposal for development of a leadership program for Memorial Regional South Hospital covering the aspects of participants, incentives, monitoring, challenges and follow-up strategies.

- Participants selection for the program and monitoring of their progress The programs participants will be selected based on performance for various departments. In that respect, the best performing employees will be selected for participation of the program each year. - Incentives for participating in the program ...

Over the years, there have been many empirical studies on quality management in different organizations especially businesses. These studies have examined empirically and critically the achievements of both global and domestic businesses over the years. It is common knowledge that these organizations and businesses had different systems of management, organization and leadership. One among these forms of leadership is team-oriented leadership, organization or management. It has been a question of interest to figure out whether team-oriented organizations improve streamlined processes in institutions and business, and worker productivity or not ("Leadership Theories and Studies - organization, system, style, manager, definition, model, ...

Question 1: Reasons for applying for the course or your research proposal

I wish to apply for MPhil in Innovation, Strategy, and Organization based on my personal passion for what I believe to be a challenging but really an inspiring course. I feel that this specific course will be an excellent preparation for my PhD study. I am very enthusiastic to broaden my understanding of social science methodologies along with their use in the interdisciplinary study of the organizations and I believe that this interdisciplinary program will be very helpful. My inspiration for longing to study the MPhil in ...

My chosen profession was largely directed by the profession of my father who is a school headmaster in China. So this was a dominant factor that shaped my being of a teacher. Being a good student, it was infused in me that I will be able to become a good teacher. However, the case is not always the same. During my teaching career, I suffered from a series of events that was associated with my motivational aspects. Self-efficacy, self-determination and the prevalent family and societal culture are some of the factors that I suffered from and are also the reasons from my weak motivation. ...

The study of individual behavior within the context of organizations is a relatively new phenomenon. In this area of study, the researcher does not only focus over the individualistic behavior of employees rather they give special importance to the way the behavior contributes towards the organization. In other words, organizational behavior studies the contribution made by individuals to their respective organizations. Organizational behavior is also closely related to the human resources function of the organization. The core function of human resources is to look job selection, training over, and performance appraisal to name a few. Consequently, the job of organizational behavior ...

Change is a common phenomenon and an essential part of human life. Change affects the survival and growth of an organization in terms of time, duty, work, pay, technology, structure, authority-responsibility and many others. It helps to adjust with the forces of the external environment. Since the environment of business is dynamic, it is vital for organizations to be dynamic by identifying, accepting and implementing changes at the right time . Change refers to the creation of difference or imbalance in the existent pattern of dealing at work. It is a base for growth and development as it offers plenty of opportunities. ...

Ethics is the study of understanding whether what we do is good and right (Manikutty, Being Ethical p. 19). Speaking of work and business ethics, we can certainly say that it is an amalgamation of proper work policies and practices regarding several business decisions and issues that are related to production, sales and marketing. This case deals with the ethics policy of XYZ Inc. After a good and commendable effort by the company’s HR department and the top management, the company now has a dedicated Ethics Officer and a proper Code of Ethics in place. However, XYZ Inc. faces a serious ethical ...

Teams, in the workplace, have become increasingly famous. A team-oriented firm structure implies divisions or organizations depend on small work teams or groups to control various tasks or products. Employers are excited to establish teamwork within the workplace; nonetheless, cooperative task completion cannot be all it appears. Whereas there are some specific merits to teamwork or group work, there also exist some demerits. Before dedicating to the duty of establishing a group-rich workplace or agency, potential drawbacks should be considered to group work completion as well as find out if the cooperative work mode is the best option (Biech 9). ...

I have just been appointed as the District Manager of an electronics company, a position which I have been eagerly anticipating for a long time. Having recently been appointed to this new leadership position at a company which I have wanted to work at for years, I can easily see in my first days that there are substantial organizational cultural problems that must be overcome. While the organization is extremely viable, there are power struggles between managers and an organizational culture that does not properly inspire its workers.

There is often a sense of friction between middle management and department heads, as ...

Human resource management was earlier known as personal management. Personal management used to take care of numerous duties for organizations, and the same is done by the HRM in modern times. HRM has gone through significant changes in the past hundred years. The role of HRM is wide and not limited to the recruitment of the employees and management of their records and wages. HRM is responsible for a variety of the tasks that affect the performance of an organization right from selection and retention of the talent, performance management and overall employees’ development. It further deals with training of ...

Job satisfaction goes beyond simply doing a task that one enjoys and gets paid for doing it. A variety of factors plays a part in one's satisfaction in the workplace. The mentioned factors are ranked from the level of importance. They include an opportunity for one to use their skills and abilities at work, job security and proper compensation for the work done. In addition, a safe and efficient communication structure between the senior management and the employees stand as appropriate factors. Finally, a healthy work relationship with the immediate supervisor is bound to exist (Robbins & Judge, Organizational Behavior 15th Edition, 2012). ...

I am extremely interested in organizational behavior – as a prospective future leader of an organization, it is immensely important that I learn exactly how organizations behave and interact if I am to make full use of each employee’s specific traits and skills. An organization is a powerful collective of unique minds and special attributes, and it is the responsibility of a leader to harness those energies in a powerful, productive and ethical way. One way in which a leader can be most effective is to facilitate trustworthiness between individuals, as well as promote ethical stewardship in leadership behavior. I am also very interested ...

Within Plastec Company, there was registered a high rate of turnover in the production line, especially among women and minorities, which indicated an informal organizational behavior that influenced the former employees to resign. The informal organizational behavior was based on gendered or racist jokes and biased remarks upon these vulnerable groups. In addition to this reason for the high turnover at Plastec, employees also left the company because they felt that the benefits that they received inside this organization were lower than in other companies activating in the same area. These problems require a strategic compensation intervention, needed for addressing the ...

In the given case study, my small manufacturing company is essentially attempting to increase the quality of our products in order to ensure faster delivery and streamline costs; at the same time, our sales are high. In order to achieve the goals that I must reach, an organization motivation plan must be created that ensures all workers have high job satisfaction, productivity and high-quality work, while also lessening turnover. Examining the situation, it is clear that the sales department itself does not necessarily need any changes in motivation, while the assembly, technology and administration departments do require an increase ...

What is ‘risk’ and how can it be accomplished successfully? You are required critically to analyze the concept of risk; discuss how it can be measured and ranked and outline how a project risk management strategy may be constructed. Risk is the capability of losing something that is worth; weighed against the possibility to increase something that has quality. Qualities might be gained or lost when one takes a risk which results from a given action and/or inaction, predicted or unforeseen. Risk can also be characterized as the purposeful communication with vulnerability (Altemeyer 2004). Risk perception is the subjective judgment individuals ...

Q.1 What are some of the particular practices that Westerners need to be aware of when dealing with Japanese business people? The practices to comment on include the following:

How Japanese social customs may be different than those in the United States When it comes to carrying out business with companies based overseas, it is essential to understand and be fully aware of the potential differences in terms of both culture and business practices. As it is well known, there are huge cultural differences between Easterners and Westerners. And when it comes to culture, the Japanese are considered ...

In the current managerial context it has become increasingly essential for managers to have an appreciation of managerial practices, principles and applications. This is informed by the increased knowledge level of the employees, the increased competitive nature of the industry and the embrace of globalization. The latter has brought about mobility of labor in turn occasioning the intersection of diverse cultures in typical industrial setups. It is on that premise that this paper shall discuss in details the dynamics behind theories X and Y. From the onset, it is the postulation of this paper that theory Y is much ...

Workforce diversity is whereby the employees that are hired in a firm comprise of people from different gender, ethnicities, races and religious backgrounds. It aims at ensuring that at the workforce there is a variety in the kind of people working. It is a major concern in the postmodern era since it helps to reduce various forms of bias and mistreatment to employees. It minimizes nepotism, tribalism and other types of prejudice. It also indicates the equality in the organization and hence enhances the corporate image of the firm.

Cognitive dissonance is a dilemma concerning one’s beliefs, professional practices and behavior. James ...

Gore’s corporate culture essentially differs from the other firms in terms of the managerial arrangement and structure. The privately owned company does not have the common corporate arrangement whereby the board of directors and the management exercise near absolute control of the organizational activities. Far from it, at Gore, the associates through functional teams make all the necessary decisions and the concept of teamwork is overboard. Indeed, Gore’s leaders do not struggle with strategy formulation and decision making. The corporate structure devolves all the strategic decision making to the associates. The leaders are appointment by their peers ...

The Bank of America is one of the largest banks in America with an international presence. In terms of the asset base, the bank is the second largest in the United States of America. With the emergence of information technology, the bank introduced online banking affording the customers real time opportunities to transact business over the online platforms. However, the implementation of the online banking system has been plagued with a number of challenges occasioning a performance gap in the overall organization. One area that needs improvement relates to the training of the employees on the online applications. In this paper, a ...

It is necessary to appreciate the current managerial environment. Today, the typical managers are highly equipped and knowledgeable in their professional specialization in turn making them an invaluable asset in the modern organization. Within that strain, falls the imperative to retain them in the organization given the highly competitive environment. With the information technology advancements, access to information has been highly facilitated in turn increasing mobility of labor. While this favors the employees, it is in the interest of the organization that managerial turnover is kept at the lowest levels possible. The ensuing sections shall discuss some of the ...

Abstract Any business enterprise that fails to introduce strong organizational policies and strategies is bound to face problems. Problems such as employee absenteeism, presenteeism and turnover are some of the problems that these enterprises face. If left unattended, these problems can cause inefficiency, and monetary damage. The consequences of these actions are multifold as they can destroy the image of those organizations and lead to its ultimate downfall. Keywords: absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover, lackadaisical, revolt, motivation Absenteeism at work is failing to report for work. It is considered a violation of a social obligation toward work at a predetermined and predefined ...

Today, businesses operate in the form of companies. They integrate people, structure, environment and technology. A company brings together resource to achieve desired goals. There are different aspects of these components that should be understood and controlled for effective operation of the business. The human factor is the coordinating unit to create value for owners, customers and employees. Employees determine the company performance and provide the basis for competition between the businesses. Organizational behavior, industrial, and organizational psychology are important tools used for peoples benefit.

Behavior of employees in the workplace can have a huge impact on the workers health ...

Motivation.. 3

Recommendations.. 10

Executive Summary In this case, Suzanne Chalmers has resigned her work at Advanced Photonics Limited (APL). Consequently, Thomas is getting worried with the recent increase in the number of workers who are leaving the company. The paper seeks to give solutions to Thomas so that the company would retain as many employees as possible. Thus, the study shall seek evidence on how the employees at APL would be motivated so as to encourage their stay in this company. Occasionally most managers have pegged the concept of employee motivation with money rewards. However, in some ...

In any business set up, talent management has prove to be a key factor that determines both short term and long term goals and objectives of firms and institutions There are several issues relating to talent management that has proved crucial in a business environment as has been noted by scholars of management and human resource (Phillips & Gully, 2012). There exist many styles or tendency in the contemporary business environments focusing on talent management that touch on issues to do with leadership, change, talent, designs among others as it is further noted by professionals and scholars in business and administration. However, ...

A brief description of the incident The incident took place during a project in an organization where all of the employees in the team had lost interest as well as faith in the management because they did not believe that there would be sufficient rewards for the efforts that they would put in this project. Moreover it was Christmas time and motivating the employees to put in extra hours at work was extremely difficult. I could manage to get only 4 out of 10 employees to stay back and work for the project at the cost of not spending ...

Introduction In organizations and organizational behavior, the organization seems to take on a form of its own where it dictates the behavior of the individuals within the organization. In this paper, the various metaphors of the organization are applied and tested in the school system with regards to; schools as psychic prisons; schools as instruments of domination; schools as a brain; schools as a political system. This metaphorical analysis will explore all the aspects of the school system and show how it relates to the metaphors of organization.

Organization as a psychic prison in relation to school system People hold ideas, ...

INTRODUCTION Operation management has gained immense importance in the management science since recent past. It leads to exploitation of the organizational resources and capabilities to optimum level. In the competitive environment posed to business, organizations are required to develop the systems all across functions and divisions that are able to maximize the potential and contribute towards organizational goal. In similar context, the aim of this report is to propose a plan which will improve the operations management of the organization. The organization selected for this review is Sony Corporation. On identifying the operational issues and suggestions are proposed for ...

Personal characteristics and behaviors

Organizational behavior is the general reaction of the people towards the changes taking place within the workplace the characteristics of an organization behavior is influence by the current state of the workplace and the different qualities of the employees. These characteristics are determined by the entire workforce, culture and other individuals’ variables. This includes the existing relationship between the workers satisfaction and the managerial style of the organization.

I see myself as someone with the following values: respectfulness, honesty, and truthfulness. I strive to use these all of the time because they are important. Without ...

My decision to launch a career in Health Care Management by joining this university was fuelled by the growing desire to serve the community through enabling efficient health care delivery and more so in modern exciting times in the field. Looking back to the time that I enrolled for the course as well as the expectations that I had then, I conclude that the time spent in training has been fruitful and has indeed superseded my expectations. At the time of entry for this postgraduate program, I was impelled by the feeling that my experiences as a child in hospital where ...

Organizational behavior is defined as “a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on behavior within organization. It is the study and application of knowledge about how people act within organizations” . As such, it is a widely encompassing discipline that aims to evaluate how human resources behave within the work setting. The current discourse hereby aims to present one’s understanding of organizational behavior in a private security agency. In the evaluation, the six elements of organizational behavior would be examined in terms of the manner by which these elements challenge the effectiveness of a private security ...

The emphasis at Starbucks regarding the organizational behavior motivational strategies, promoted by the company’s CEO is that employees should be motivated to work for Starbucks prior to their employment in this firm, as the article “How Executives Hire: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Finding Motivated Employees” indicates (Trammel, 2013). The article speaks about what Starbucks’ CEO, Howard Schulz, believes about motivated employees and what is his strategy for having motivated people to work with and this is the specific reason for which I have chosen this article, as it elaborates on an organizational behavior issue focused on ...

The aim of this study would be to identify the importance of effective leader to manage the distribution of goods and services offered by Consumer Technology Corporation to the final consumer at the right time and place. In order to do so, the study would first elaborate the term leader. This would help to gain insight regarding the essential traits required by individuals to be regarded as an effective leader. Leadership is not just limited to one or two styles but it includes various styles. This study would also tend to determine the right set of skills and leadership ...

The human relations theory introduced by Elton Mayo is one of the most practical theory that affects the performance of employees in today’s global market place and economic climate. This theory is a true reflection of the needs of employees in organizations, organizational values and the character traits of employees in general. Elton Mayo stated that employee motivation depends on the human relations policy of the organization. Managers should have a good relationship with employees, give them the chance to work in teams and develop their personal abilities and exploit their potential. Managers should also adopt a style where they relate ...

The provision of quality healthcare is an integral part in the management of all progressive societies. Unlike in the ancient days when most societies were largely dominated by solitary cultures, the modern societies are extensively multicultural. Hosting significant populations of all nationalities in the world, the US is a classic melting point of nearly all cultures in the world. The intermarriages between these cultures have only served to create a complex multicultural society. The uniqueness of each culture in such a society presents challenges to governments and non-governmental agencies in the provision of services such as healthcare and education. In spite of ...

Business practitioners and scholars of human behavior in organizations have conducted different studies on organizational climate. In a research written by Zhang and Liu, the authors have expressly stated that previous studies on organizational climate could actually be traced to as early as the 1930s. There has been varied definitions of the term, and one’s research has generated the following meanings: - “Organizational climate is an inherently multilevel construct involving distinct perceptions and beliefs about an organization’s physical and social environment” ; - “refers to the degree to which an organization focuses on and emphasizes: Innovation, Flexibility, ...

In modern management, ethics has assumed a central and integral position. It has become essential for employees to conform to ethical standards and norms. This has been facilitated partially by the aggressive and informed character of the market. In that context, it has become apparent on the management to ensure compliance to ethics. This paper examines some of the managerial practises in relation to the realization of ethical goals.

In the modern management, it is the position of this paper that an ethics test would be essential during the recruitment and consequential deployment of employees and partners. This arises from ...

One advantage of membership and seniority is that the employees are guaranteed of promotions and benefits, that is, they are sure to advance in their careers as long as they stay in the company (Hamel, 2013). Some companies and labor unions can also protect the senior employees from layoffs; thereby providing them with job security. On the other hand, a disadvantage is that performance is not rewarded and career growth is slow, which can discourage employees from improving their performance and will also prevent the company from attracting the most motivated and talented workers.

With regards to job status-based rewards, ...

Any social, economic or political system that is based on organised structures and defined rules of engagement would entertain some form of bureaucracy. In the operations of the complex American political system, bureaucracy is entertained from the very onset. It is becomes a political controversy merely in relation to a different understanding and analysis by scholars and politicians alike. However, it should be appreciated that the American bureaucracy due to its complexity can be perceived in various levels and perspectives. The fact that the political system itself entertains two tiers of government, that is the federal and the state government, present ...

Contingency theory is a concept of leadership that argues that there is no best way to do things. It argues that the best way to handle a particular situation would be different from the best way to handle another situation. This means, therefore, that there are no hard and fast rules in leading and organizing and that leadership or organizational behavior that is effective and efficient in some situations would or may not work in others. The theory posits that leadership styles are dependent on numerous internal and external factors and constrains and should, therefore, be analyzed depending on the specific ...

An organization is composed of many functional components within it. Among them are human beings, machines and land. However, the direction taken by an enterprise is dictated by the human resources available. This is because all other factors of production can never give an output without management and leadership. Diversity, which is the representation of a multitude of individual differences and similarities that exist among people, helps in determining whether an organization is successful. Diversity in the work place can be skill based. Every employee in the company usually has a role which they play. When the results of all ...

A company organizational structure is basically consist of tasks as well as reports on relation that enables the company to control its operations, coordinate its duties and motivate the employees with an aim of achieving a common objective.( Ball, D., McCulloch Jr., W., Geringer, J., Minor, M., & McNett, J. 2005). In total, there are five to eight types of organization structures which can be chosen by any company. Each and every company has a unique way of choosing organization structures to meet its operation. When any company wants to choose any structure, the management looks at every department and their relationship ...

After this assessment, I learnt that I have various strong points. These areas include my desire to tackle challenges; as a result, I get to learn new things and also I am motivated when I encounter challenging issues. I will use this strength in my academics through tackling challenging study questions; these quizzes will help me have a greater understanding of the topics taught in class. I will combine this strength with another strong point I learned from the assessment: my enthusiasm. I will ensure that stay enthusiastic in my studies through tackling challenging study questions. I will also use my enthusiasm in ...

This assignment has been formulated such that a detailed study can be provided to the readers with respect to Cross Cultural Management. In the following assignment, Cross – Cultural Issues faced by the Airbus Consortium have been discussed, along with the various efforts they took to try and manage them. Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Project has also been discussed about in the following assignment, which helps to provide a better understanding so as to where exactly Airbus went wrong such that it had to face the various issues. Thus, in turn, provides a better understanding on how to tackle the ...

Motivation pertains to the forces that determine or influence the level, persistence, and direction of effort that a person exerts at work (Schermerhorn, Osborn, Uhl-Bien & Hunt, 2012) where direction is the person’s choice from a given set of alternatives; level refers to the amount of effort exerted; and persistence refers to the duration by which a person sticks to a particular action (Schermerhorn et al., 2012). There are many theories that suggest the factors that motivate people. While none of them on their own offer a complete understanding of what motivates people, they all offer some insight on the various things that ...

Two of the incentive plans that organizations implement are group-based pay plans and incentive compensation plans. Although individual pay incentives have shown to increase productivity, very few employees are covered by an individual incentive plan such as a commission plan or a piece rate plan (Zenger & Marshall, 1995). As such, companies implement merit increases that are based on various performance categories. In the same regard, this has led to an increase in the implementation of group-based incentive plans where group performance is rewarded instead of individual performance. This type of incentive plan is employed by most organizations as tasks are ...

How it is produced, maintained and challenged by particular people in a hospital.

Anderson, Cameron & Brown, Courtney E. (2010). The functions and dysfunctions of hierarchy. Research in Organizational Behavior. Retrieved from www.ScienceDirect.com with doi: 10.1016/j.riob.2010.08.002. (Published online but not yet in print)

This paper used a literature review methodology to address the hierarchy in power of many organizations with respect to functionalist organization. It offers a better understanding of five variables that determine the effectiveness of moderation on the strength of hierarchal-powerful obstacles: (a) the type of a group’s work, (b) if the choice of group leader is appropriate, (c) how a leader’s ...

The group had specific, achievable and realistic purpose. This doubled as their objective. The purpose of the study was two-fold; primary purpose and secondary purpose. The primary objective of the study was to determine the relationship which exists between group performance and group goal setting in an exercise setting. On the other hand, the secondary or the ancillary purpose was to determine if cohesion, physical activity, and self efficacy level influence the degree of group performance/ group goal relationship. In particular, the group was highly interested in establishing the effect of the degree of group goal on settings, tasks, ...

Organizations function as an independent entity in the business environment. The action, behavior and culture of an organization is shaped and governed by its employee’s managers and stake holders. In each organization there are certain vital components that influences the way it behaves and function. The book Organizational Behavior by Robbins and Judge examines some of these vital components and presents research to highlight their importance. The role of a manager is to identify these components and incorporate them in daily processes to improve efficiency productivity and effectiveness. In this paper I discuss some of these vital components and ...

Organizational behavior is an area of learning which looks at the effects that people,”structures have on behavior in an organization” (Robbins, 17). This study is aimed at using the insights acquired to improve the performance of an institution together with helping it to achieve its goals. My comment on this issue brought up in the first video is that Zappo’s action to bribe its employees to quit their job was not right. What could have been done was to offer more training to the workers and just let them know what was expected of them. It ...

“Multicultural Shared Leadership: A Conceptual Model of Shared Leadership in Culturally Diverse Teams discusses the concept of multicultural leadership of different corporation related instances. The aspect of shared leadership is observed; in terms of the effects that cultural diversity has on this very concept. Therefore, it concludes upon the presence of a multicultural leadership that is prevalent in many societies. Another crucial point targeted in the article by Ramthun and Matkin is the fact that the hierarchical structure of organizations makes it easier to coordinate and collaborate on a collective basis, rather than solely working as a leader. However, Wighton in ...

The developments in ICTs have been the cause of the changing face of organizations in ways that would not be predictable a few years ago. No longer is there need for employees to work in city centers, alongside their coworkers. Information required for work can easily and quickly be conveyed across any distance. Consequently, new forms of organization have been created. Information communication technologies can be used to device working methods which consolidate or take the place of tasks that were previously carried out by individuals, and they can be utilized in monitoring the remaining workers’ productivity.

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The issues pertaining to the study of organizational behavior may be quite a challenge to many people, but at the same time they are interesting. The reason why organization behavior has been given extreme emphasis is because individuals cannot act in the same way or manner and there must be set standards or expectations within an organization (Florida, 2009).

The following paper describes the key concepts and theoretical models for organizational behavior. It explains organizational behavior in various contexts as learned from readings, cases, personal or professional experiences. The paper starts with a description of organizational behavior and its key elements/ ...

Ideally, in 21st century organizational environment has become intensely competitive. Most of the people in an organization compete for various reasons. Therefore, the competition, and the struggles within the organization lead to conflicts. Conflicts within an organization can cost productivity, money, and time, but in some conditions, it is health for the growth and development of the organization (Heinz & Koontz, 2006). Hence, conflict is the incompatibility of values and goals between different parties in an organization. Another source of conflict is interpersonal motives. In this case, individuals in an organization act in his/her particular manner for various ...

Organizational behavior affects learning teams and learning institutions. OB (Organizational behavior) is defined as a discipline focusing on people, teams, and individuals in organizations in a systematic manner. The purpose of the field is in coming up with a better way employees can interact. Several researchers on OB have come up with aspects that have resulted from the field. The aspects can be listed as knowledge sharing, leadership, organizational culture, management style, organizational structure and process, and organizational climate (Aliel et al., 2011; Jinyun et al., 2010; Olsen et al., 2010; & Pudruc & Radic, 2011). In this literature review, the role of OB ...

Application I learned from reading this article that PRP (performance related pay) has a positive effect on productivity, particularly where individual performance can be evaluate and rewarded. This does support my attempt to answer my questions on the affects of pay for performance on motivation and productivity. The article provided further insights into how PRP motivates the workforce in both positive and negative ways. PRP is most effective in employment situations where it serves as an immediate financial reward to top performers. In these situations, it improves the company’s productivity in two ways; it increases the performance of ...

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It is a fact that every organization has its eye on increasing its profitability with time. In line with this thought, researchers and scholars have come up with models and theories that have helped business enterprises to become stable in their quest to remain relevant in the market. Many companies have adopted different theories and models that have seen them through time and have helped them to remain profitable. However, it is also clear that the market is a relatively volatile arena that has, in recent years become quite unpredictable. Major organizations that compete for the same resources and markets ...

Well-organized leaders possess a common characteristic; their capability to stimulate and inspire the followers to achieve valuable goals (Dubrin, 2010). The achievement of these goals is intensified after formulation of a strategic framework. This framework should consider the competitive environment, future uncertainty, human resource management, and financial management. In addition, leadership also involves being able to focus on a development of a plan through which the organizations operations will prevail in the future against uncertainty. However for many organizations, uncertainty has been a major challenge that has prevented these companies from implementing their future leadership assignments.

Dubrin (2010) further explains that well-organized leadership should ...

Annotated bibliography is used to account for a study on a particular topic. It further gives a detailed summary of every source and an analysis of the material’s relevance. The importance of a bibliography is based on the selection of sources of reference. In addition, it entails a good definition of the scope of the study, which helps in making an accurate judgment on the type of data to include in annotation. This article involves an analysis of various authors’ contribution on leadership and motivation. Various facts have been looked into and the criticism over the same. The major reason of coming up ...