Essays on Organizational Behavior

Introduction

International Human Resource Management (IHRM) is concerned with the management of labor of a company that is international in operations. This implies that the company in question has several branches extensions of its parent company in its home country in other nations around the world (Harzing & Pinnington, 2011, p. 13). Multinational corporations are increasingly finding it necessary to conduct strategic international human resource management (SIHRM) due to the global dynamics in the manner in which businesses are conducted. The objectives of SIHRM are built to ensure that the managers are cognizant of the differences in world’s market segments Continue reading...

Communication Techniques

Abstract
In a society, it is very important for people to communicate in order to have a peaceful co-existence. This is also the same for an organization. The organization behaviour is essential because it guides and improves the behaviours and the attitudes of the people in the organization. This is why the organization theory was formulated. The organization theory has enabled people to form a hierarchy in, which communication occurs from the manager to the normal workers. Feedback was formulated in order for the workers to be able to communicate and provide imputes on important decisions made by the Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Introduction

Managers can use an action plan as a mechanism of resolving both organizational and interpersonal challenges. This is mostly done by studying the behavior of how people interact with each other in the working environment, and the impact of such behavior on the organizational performance. Organizational behavior takes a close look at the human resource in order to understand what causes a given behavior. Organizational behavior also investigates on employee emotional aspects like; what can motivate employees to perform well and what causes their work to weaken. Mostly, what influences the state of an employee’s performance includes; teamwork, Continue reading...

IHRM

Introduction
Firms that do not have the quality human resource face challenges in managing its operations globally and in attracting quality human resource (Farndale, Scullion, and Sparrow, 2010). Therefore it is critical for firms to manage their human resource. For this reason, the practices of human resource management are decisive in the success of the organization. As firms expand their operations to different countries, organizations have to consider a lot more factors than they have to when they are managing an organization that operates in only one country (Adler, 2002). Therefore, the role of international human resource management practices Continue reading...

Problem Statement

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 Continue reading...

Management and Leadership Development

Introduction
Competitions among organizations are tight these days. The success or failure of the company’s market edge in the industry largely depends on the effectiveness of their respective management teams. Management effectiveness includes, but is not limited to, creativeness and the ability to think outside of the box. Resourcefulness and strategic skills are essential in determining ways to outsmart the competitors in today’s global industry. In this paper, readers would get to learn about the techniques and strategies to manage global organizations effectively. Readers will learn the competitors’ edge over one company in relation to management and Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

The Performance based compensation system in the education sector has been a major issue based on the complexity of the issues and factors involved. Currently, there has been pressure in the education sector that compensation should be based on performance-which encompasses substituting a teacher’s pay or awarding bonuses based on student test scores, or the class performance. However, research and experience indicate that such schemes may have diverse implications on the general education. On this note, numerous researchers have deduced reasons as to why the education sector needs such reforms. According to Springer (2009), there is exceedingly visible Continue reading...

Aguinis, H., & Pierce, C. A. (2008). Enhancing the relevance of organizational behavior by embracing performance management research. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
This journal is relevant in this research project because it shows the impact of organizational behavior on both the individuals and the management structures in an organization.The ways to enhance organizational performance through organizational behavior are clearly elaborated in this article. The source is also credible because the author is experienced in human resource aspects and organizational practices.
Ali, A. M., & Anis, J. (2013). WHY CEO EMOTIONAL BIASES AFFECT FIRM ASSETS SPECIFICITY CHOICE BAYESIAN NETWORK METHOD: THE EVIDENCE Continue reading...

American Employment Related Laws and Regulations

The Human Resource Department deals with several legal and safety laws as well as requirements that an organization must abide by in order to prevent law suits. This is also because the legal, safety and regulatory frameworks have serious implications on the human resource department. The laws and regulations ensure that all local and international employees have equal and fair treatment in the course of their employment. The rights of employees and employers are adequately covered by several distinct entities or institutions such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and National Labor Relations, among others. Continue reading...

MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY

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 Continue reading...

Communication Self-Concept Paper

The world in which we live undergoes quick successive changes. One aspect that helps individuals to cope with the rapidly changing world entails the concept of understanding human communication. Understanding communication provides individuals with skills and insights for everyday contexts and contents drawing from the many sources of communication we are exposed to like the videos, other cultures and academic scholarly works.
Human communication remains complex and draws from a variety of backgrounds. It focuses on several dimensions including cultural diversities, role and sexuality of gender and the effects of technology and social media. For effective communication, in various Continue reading...

I concur with the argument in relation to reverse discrimination. This, in my view, is one of the flipsides of affirmative action. It is not justifiable or at least at this juncture, to wholesomely reject affirmative action. Nonetheless, sufficient evidence suffices to show that some qualified and competent employees lost opportunities because they belong to the majority. This has especially affected the White men seeking employment opportunities. As noted in the discussion, it is imperative to follow the letter and spirit of Title VII. To that extent, discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and or national origin should Continue reading...

Different forces or surroundings affect business operations. This constitutes the business environment. In other words, the business cannot exist in isolation and the same affects the manner in which the business operates. Customers, competitors, suppliers, distributors, industry trends, substitutes, regulations, government activities, the economy, demographics, and social and cultural factors are forces included in any business environment. Others such as innovations and technological developments may also be classified as forces that influence the business environment.
Other definitions may be as broad as to include the definition of business environment as the physical space or place where a business is Continue reading...

Management Issue at My Job

MANAGEMENT ISSUES AT MY JOB
One of the current issues in the workplace is women’s rights. The history of issues management can be traced back during the 1970s when General Electric responded to the demand for women's rights in the workplace (Wartick & Rude, 1986). In the case of G.E., it created company policies which recognized the rights of women in the work place. In the case of S. C. Johnson, it had to face some environmental issues regarding its products. In order to properly address the issues, the company removed chloroflourocarbon propellants from its aerospray products to be Continue reading...

With time organizations are realizing the importance of Emotional intelligence and that traditional types of intelligence, such as IQ, fail to fully explain cognitive ability. As a child we are encouraged to work in groups. We are taught that by working this way we can learn quickly and always put our learnings into practice. By working together we learn more quickly and become more emotionally intelligent.

Emotional Intelligence

The term Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to first recognize our emotions and then control them. It also refers to understanding the emotions of those around you (Mayer, et.al, 2004). Some Continue reading...

Abstract

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 Continue reading...

Introduction

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 Continue reading...

This paper focuses on ethics and the role of managers in an ethical organization. The paper begins by explaining briefly what ethics entails, and why it is important to behave ethically. It will then explain about ethical leadership and why not all managers are leaders. The next section will describe in-depth about managers in their organizations and why they should practice ethics. What follows is the role of managers in an ethical organization. This section will describe how managers behave ethically, how they ensure everyone reporting to them behave ethically, and how they act as representatives of their organizations Continue reading...

PART 1: Dark Leadership

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 place Continue reading...

Introduction

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.

Proposal

- 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
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- Organizational Behavior.
- Introduction
- The aim of this project is to encounter the current issues of Dell company.
- in order to encounter the issues different case studies and research paper and books have been analyzed.
- Two topic that are focus of multiple organization have been chosen to discuss that are diversity and employee engagement.
- Description of problem
In order to apply the theories of organizational behavior Dell has been taken as targeted organization and current issues that have been recognized are as follow:
1. Diversity issues; company is facing age diversity issues that is ongoing Continue reading...

What is the meaning of ‘Violation’?

Ethics is the study of understanding whether what an organization’s employees do is good and right (Manikutty, Being Ethical p. 19). As for the HR office of XYZ corporation, which now has a fully functional Ethics Officer and a Corporate Code of Ethics, the main responsibility is to create a procedure through which its employees can report any violations of its ethics code. But before creating a procedure, it is very important to first fully understand the true meaning of the word ‘violation’.
A ‘violation’ refers to several actions that the employees and other stakeholders of the organization Continue reading...

Integrated Social Sciences

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, Continue reading...

Risk Identification, Assessment, and Management

Executive Summary
There is an increasing interest in the security, safety and health attributes of hotels in the world today. The General Manager is interested in the attributes to satisfy its overarching managerial duties. These responsibilities include due diligence and duty of care. Because of this interest, the General Manager requested information on risk management and security in his hotel in order to assess the safety integrity and security of the food and beverage, and guest room departments of his hotel. Identifying the exact information that is relevant to determining and assessing such information is often challenging due to Continue reading...

The Reflection

As a result of the classes and lectures that I have attended, I have become an excellent team member by learning to practice active listening while others are putting across their opinions. I have learnt the art of good listening whereby I keep my mind open, resist distractions, and delay evaluation. This constructive discipline has enabled me to share the information that I know while interacting with other group members attentively. Self acceptance has become so evident in me that I can now withstand both positive and negative criticisms which I could not do before. This has enabled me Continue reading...

Management

Introduction
Organizational behavior is an academic discipline that is concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in an organizational set-up . The current paper analyses the organizational behavior of my previous organization. Various factors such as organizational culture, mode of communications in the organization, the nature of authority, motivation techniques, emotional quotient areas and virtual elements are analyzed in the paper. The thesis statement for the current paper is that the organizational behavior of the analyzed organization contributes positively towards the growth of the organization.

Type of culture (Pluralism, Dualism or Salad bowl)

Organizational culture is defined as a system of shared values that guide the Continue reading...

CC1: Variables in the five management systems of the experiment and their Relations

The experiment that was carried out displayed different variables, and they include the first system which is traditional management that entails not adopting new ideas and instead the system continues with the old ways of doing things without having the employees participate. The variable in this case is the experience of the people working in the organization who repetitively tackles the same activities over time and therefore perfecting in them. The experience of the people in this case links up with program IV which provides the job satisfaction that has the employees concentrating on their jobs without the need Continue reading...

Leadership is perhaps the most widely investigated filed of organizational behavior. This is possibly due to the reason that leadership plays a pivotal role in influencing the dynamics of an organization. Even if an organization is bequeathed with more than adequate resources, absence of effective leadership will lead to the organization not being able to function effectively. According to many theorists of organizational behavior, leaders influence people and that leadership involves influencing people to work toward desired goals. This paper is an analysis of the leadership qualities of the Chairman and CEO of one of the world’s best Continue reading...

Emotions play a key role in most, if not all, people’s lives. There are numerous studies that show empirical evidence how emotions can either positively or negatively impact one’s daily performance at work, and even things such as personality and behavior . There are just a lot of things that can be dependent on emotions. The objective of this paper is to focus on the psychology of emotion, particularly the effects of emotion regulation on concurrent attention-related performance.
An individual’s attention can be perceived as one of the major determinants of performance . When it comes to the Continue reading...

One of the main problems facing Ringwood’s Company is inadequate motivation among the employees. For instance, employees of various car groups mainly news cars and second hand cars will fight for customers in order to earn a commission since their salaries are low. Motivation plays a great role in enhancing the performance e of employees. When employees are satisfied, they increase their productivity hence help in improving the organizations performance (Allana, 2013). Basing argument on human relations theory, workers enhance their productivity once they are motivated. As a result, there is a great need for the Ringwood Company Continue reading...

Motivation Case Overview

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Utility and sub game perfection

Ultimatum Game is an appropriate paradigm that investigates the discord between social motives like fairness and self-interest. UG bases on the assumption that bargainers maximize their outcome. The acceptance of the smallest offer can yield high outcomes and the alternative of refusing means no outcome at all. The social utility model implies that the utility of the outcome depends on both payoffs. The study aims to identify factors that can affect the relative importance in making UG.
A strong reciprocity model in the evolution of human cooperation gains acceptance because of support and experimental findings. An observation that unfair Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Introduction

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. Continue reading...

Personal Reflection Journal Assignment

In this reflective journal, I have dwelt on discussing several topics that include functions of management, goal setting, delegation of duties, centralization and decentralization, as well as vision and mission statements of firms. These critical areas shape organizations and determine their growth, expansion and eventual success.

Vision, value and mission statements

The vision statement gives a description of how the company would look in the future so that it can remain on a success path (Foreman, 1998, p.22). In developing the vision of my company, I have to keep the aspired future in mind. An effective vision statement has to challenge, inspire the stakeholders, Continue reading...

Psychology

More financially successful and bring higher quality products and services to market at faster rate. Transformational leaders tend to foster leader-member exchange relationships that are of higher quality, marked by especially strong levels of mutual respect and obligation.

Attributions and Leadership

Attribution theory believes that individual will understand why others do that way. Employees will observe and possess qualities or abilities of a leader. The leader will understand the employee’s way of thinking, and will develop personal statement about how they do it in working environment, what they do and will develop that kind of opinion by seeing the employee working Continue reading...

The airline sector has in the past contributed greatly to the economic growth of countries due to increasing demand for travel services both in developed and developing countries. The reason behind the increasing demand for flying is because it is one of the greatest achievements on this earth. This paper evaluates Southwest Airlines in terms of its mission, strategic leadership, corporate culture, systems and organizational structure because the overall organizational behavior comprises of these identifiable components. Understanding the long-term and short-term effectiveness of strategies as well as their impacts on political, psychological, fiscal and environmental arenas on behavior is Continue reading...