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Organizational Behavior
The study of the performance of both an individual and a group within an organization/company is referred to as Organizational behavior. The fundamental focus of this field of study is to examine the effects of a work environment on employees’ behavior and alternatively how the work environment is affected by the behavior of employees. Organizational behavior derives from different disciplines such as psychology, sociology, political sciences, and medical sciences. For example, while reviewing the topic of personality, one has to take help from psychology. Team mechanisms depend entirely on sociology. The studies from political sciences are utilized while studying the power in an organization. Medical sciences also contribute to Organizational behavior, specifically in the study of anxiety and its effects on people. A lot of other diverse topics are becoming the components of Organizational behavior. The organizations have a great impact on the feelings, actions and thought of the process of their employees. Organizational behavior covers the mechanisms responsible for the interactions between an organization and its employees. Its goal is to identify the behaviors which are effective for the growth and prosperity of an organization. (Luthans, 1992)
Objectives
Following are some of the major objectives of Organizational behavior:
Job comfort
Right people for the right job
Maintaining a unique culture in the organization
Leadership
Dispute resolution
Understanding the needs of the employees
Developing good and quality leaders
Creating a good and effective team
Increasing productivity rate
The mentioned objectives prove the fact that organizational behavior is linked with employees within the company/organization, how they interact with each other, and what is their motivational level. It also focuses on finding simple yet effective ways to enhance the productivity of an organization. (Luthans, 1992)
Fundamental concepts of Organizational behavior
The fundamental concepts of organizational behavior are based on the nature of organizations and their employees. Some of them are mentioned below (Luthans, 1992):
Individual diversity
Approach
Inspiring behavior
The spark for participation
The worth of an employee
Morality
Common interest
The comprehensive and universal concept
Challenges and Opportunities
For organizational behavior, the challenges and opportunities keep on changing at regular intervals in order to improve productivity and achieve the business and market goals. Following are some of the major challenges faced by many organizations today (Luthans, 1992):
Developing different kinds of skills in employees
Focusing on quality
Improving productivity
Maintaining diversity in the workforce
Making public powerful
Dealing patiently with transiency
Welcoming and accepting innovation
Modifying behaviors in light of ethics
Giving the customer the paramount importance
Ensuring balance in work-life clashes of employees
Limitations
Realizing the organizational behavior’s limitations is also important. Organizational behavior cannot completely remove the frustration and conflict; it can only mitigate them. It is the process to improve, and not a fixed solution to the problems. In order to effectively apply the principles of organizational behavior, it is necessary to link it with reality. Unemployment cannot be solved by better organizational behavior. Organizational behavior cannot cover our deficiencies. It is just a single system operating inside a vast network of the social system. Three major limitations of organizational behavior include (Luthans, 1992):
Biasness in behavior
The Law of Discrimination returns
Manipulating people unethically
Although there exists a huge debate as to the need for change, there is a general point of agreement which indicates that organizational behavior covers the most important and fundamental topics of leadership, motivation, power, social communication, learning, group processes, development of attitude, differences, and work anxiety. The massive impact of organizational behavior on individuals and organizations cannot be undermined. The proper study of organizational behavior is necessary to run any business smoothly and efficiently. (Luthans, 1992).
References
Luthans, F. (1992). Organizational behavior. McGraw Hill International Edition.
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