Organizational behavior is a broad area within management which focusses on how people act in organizations. This is the study and application of knowledge on how individuals and groups within an organization act it achieves this through taking a system approach whereby it interprets the people-organization relationships in terms of a whole individual, entire group, entire organization or entire social system. Managers can use the theories and knowledge in organizational behavior to improve their management practices for working effectively with employees and influencing them to attain the goals set by the organization. The organizational behavior field has evolved from being a scientific study of management in the industrial era, to administrative theories of the role of managers, to bureaucracy principles and to the human relations studies of the needs of employees.
Organizational behavior is thus an interdisciplinary field which gets its ideas and research from disciplines that focus on human interaction and behavior. These fields are such as social psychology, psychology, industrial psychology, communication, sociology, and anthropology. The purpose of organizational behavior is building better relationships through achieving the human objectives, objectives of an organization and the social objectives.This paper will look at a problem within a work setting which can be addressed and possibly solved through organizational behavior research using scientific method. It will also look at the benefits of organizational behavior on current day securit6y manager and the...
In the same way the way people think, feel and act also affect the organization sin which they work organizational behavior is therefore an area that is concerned with both types of influences: work organizations on the people andthe people on the work organizations. One problem I have observed within a work environment is resistance to change. There was a time the organization had proposed to make changes within the organization. This change would see tow departments being merged together. Many employees opposed the changes that had been proposed stating that some of them would end up jobless. In order to solve this problem there are several organizational behavior practices that could be applied. The first practice would be planning; there is no change that could possibly occur without planning (Brief & Weiss, 2002).
The organization should carry out a research on the possible barriers to the change in order for them to do away with any obstacles that could come their way. The organization could conduct workshops that could help the employees understand the changes and eliminate any misunderstanding and open up communication. The other organizational behavior practice that could be used to solve the problem is feedback. A positive feedback system in place could lead…
