Essay on Organisational Behaviour and its Impact on Employees

This essay delves into the multifaceted realm of organisational behaviour, emphasizing the critical role of human resources in contemporary business environments. It explores various theories and factors influencing employee performance, including motivation, rewards, job design, and workplace environment. The essay highlights the significance of leadership in fostering a positive work environment and the application of organisational theories, such as intelligence, personality, and motivation theories like Maslow's and Herzberg's. It examines internal and external factors impacting employee behaviour, including organisational culture, ethics, social concerns, and power dynamics. Furthermore, it discusses different management approaches, such as classical, neo-classical, and modern, along with the role of managers in enhancing employee productivity and overall organisational success. The essay concludes by underscoring the importance of understanding and adapting to the various elements that shape organisational behaviour to ensure a smooth and productive work process.

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

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In the present business environment it has become essential for the organisations to
understand the nature of their most valuable resources i.e. their human resource. The study of
the behaviour of the individuals within a group is known as organisational behaviour. It is the
modern day study that helps firms to understand the need of the employees while they are
performing their task and work accordingly so as to ensure that they perform in their best
possible way (Alfes, Shantz, Truss and Soane, 2013). There are several theories that have
been given by organisation which helps us to understand organisational behaviour. Managers
need to motivate their subordinates which help them in gaining optimum performance from
them. Leaders and managers take use of various ways so as to enhance the motivational level
of the employees.
There are several factors that affect the performance of an employee at the workplace.
All these needs to be properly take care of so as to ensure that there is no negative impact on
the performance of employees due to these factors. Rewards are essential that managers and
leaders distribute rewards to employees that have been performing well within an
organisation (Unsworth, Dmitrieva and Adriasola, 2013). This can be in the form of monetary
or verbal appraisals. This helps in enhancing of levels of confidence inside a worker which
promotes them to work in a better way. It is an essential that leaders design the job in a better
way so that employees must be comfortable to work within it (Creed, 2011). Designing of
work according to employees motivates them to work in a more focused way. If the work is
not design appropriately then there must be a problem in performing task accordingly. Along
with it is crucial that environment of the workplace is such that it supports employees
working. If the working condition within an organisation is according to the work nature
which helps in increasing the productivity of the overall firm (Wood and et. al., 2016).
In any organisation it is essential that goals must be predefined. It helps employees to move
in a particular path and hence they do not get distracted from what they have to achieve. This
helps in increasing the productivity of the firm in the longer run. There must be setting up of
both long and short term goals. Apart from this it is the role of leaders and managers to
motivate its employees on a regular basis using various kinds of motivational theories. It
helps to enhance the quality as well as individual productiveness of the workers (Fuchs and
Edwards, 2012). This is beneficial for gaining completive advantage over the others and
ensuring long term growth of the firm.

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There are several kinds of organisational theories that are given by various researchers.
All these can be applied within the organisation by various efforts of managers and leaders.
Theory of intelligence is applicable in the context that what is the approach that a worker uses
for solving any issue or completing a task that is given to them. It is the role of the manager
to understand so that according work gets assigned to them from next time. Other than this
theory of personality has been understood as what kinds of personality that is present within
the group. If managers may understand the personality of the individual then they can easily
control them and help them in performing in a better way (Sinding and et. al., 2014). Apart
from this theories of motivation consist many kinds of motivational theories that have been
given by various researchers. It helps to understand the needs of the individuals and fulfilling
them can enhance the motivational level of the employees which is crucial for achieving
highly productive results. It is the role of the managers to ensure that all the requirements of
employees so that they perform better. Maslow and Herzberg’s two factor theory are the two
common and most important theories in this regard (Organizational Behavior Theory in
Business, 2018).
Apart from this theory of perception helps to understand the ways in which an employee
percept towards any work or task. This theory must be understood by the managers to make
sure that employees understand the nature of the work and the complication that is associated
with the task. Along with it theories of attitude and behaviour help to understand the attitude
that is followed by the employees while working within a group (Asag-Gau and van
Dierendonck, 2011). It is necessary for the managers to understand behaviour of the
employees so that work can be assigned to them accordingly.
Along with these theories, it is also to be understood that there are many kinds of situations
that arises in the operations of the firm and every workers performs in these situation in their
own ways. If a firm aims to achieve higher productivity their workers have to face all these
kinds of situational problems. Success of any task depends on the approach that an employee
follows. There must be positive and proactive interventions from the management from time
to time so as to ensure that employees are performing in the way which was previously
estimated.
There are many kinds of internal elements that affect the behaviour of workers within an
organisation. In every organisation there is a particular kind of culture that is prevalent
(Dietz, 2011). It is essential for the employees to understand the culture. These cultures

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directly affect the organisational behaviour of the employees. For example Apple has adopted
a culture where research and innovation is promoted. It is due to this reason; they have come
up on the top of the industry. Another example is of Ford which was one of the fore runners
in adopting team culture and hence they were able to come as one of the biggest brand in the
car manufacturing industry. Every organisation has a particular kind of business ethics that it
has set up for itself. Every employees and company itself has to follow it (Impact of
employee motivation on job performance, 2018). This has a deeper impact on the
organisational behaviour of individual. Employees also mould their behaviour according to
the ethics that company follows. Apart from this every organisation has people that come
from different society and their upbringing plays an essential role in shaping their behaviour.
Along with these there are many kinds of social concerns that need to be take care off by the
company and employees also have to ensure that all these concerns are addressed. Power is
one of the most important factors that influence the organisational behaviour of people (Kaur,
2013). Power is distributed among various employees which relates to their ability to
influence decisions of the firm. Uneven distribution of power leads to reduce performance of
individuals. On the other hand politics is a factor that influences core behaviour of an
individual. Internal politics always hampers the positive environment within an organisation
since it is always practiced to achieve individual’s motives.
There are various kinds of approaches that are utilised by the firms so as to understand the
behaviour of employees in any group. Classical approach takes use of classical theories and
concepts. It understands that an organisation is a complete box of objectives, aims, activities,
communication, power and relationship that an employee develops within a group. While
neo-classical approach is understood to be as human relation and thoughts that reflects a
modification and betterment of classical theories. This approach also focuses on social and
psychological aspects of employees. This approach supports more democracy within the
organisation. On the other hand modern approach suggests that firm, individuals, suppliers,
consumers are part of the organisational environment. This approach also strengthens the fact
that any system can be controlled and corrected by information feedback (McLennan, 2013).
This approach replicates that any system has basically five major parts namely input, process,
output, environment and feedback.
Role of managers in this regard becomes more important. Management of all the above
mentioned factors are based on the approach that is used by managers. They must not

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understand employees as a whole person as the change in the personal life of the individual
will reflect on professional performance (Advantages of knowing Organizational Behaviour
for managers and leaders. 2018). Style of management followed by managers also plays a
crucial role in enhancing the productive performance of workers. They must choose the style
of leadership according to the situation and must also involve workers in the decision making
process it not only enhances the confidence of employees but also helps them.
On a concluding this essay it can be said that there are several kinds of factors that
affect the organisational behaviour of individual. All these factors influence needs to be
understood so that smoothness of the work process can be ensured. It is essential for the
managers to understand the needs of employees by taking use of various theories of
motivation. There are various kinds of approaches that are used by the managers for
understanding organisational behaviour.

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