Organizational Behavior and Issues Affecting Business Culture

The essay brings about the discussion on the concepts of organisational behaviour and the issues affecting the culture of business organisations. The discussion will reflect upon my own values, culture and attitude towards the issues faced in the work environment. An incident in context to the work-environment will be taken to reflect upon the importance of OB, and organisational performance. Moreover, I will mention here the determinants of the individual behaviour, group dynamics and organisational processes. These aspects will be described and their link to the enhanced organisational performance. Thus, reflection will analyse the above aspects using established OB theories and concepts.

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Organizational behavior
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The essay brings about the discussion on the concepts of organisational behaviour and the
issues affecting the culture of business organisations. The discussion will reflect upon my
own values, culture and attitude towards the issues faced in the work environment. An
incident in context to the work-environment will be taken to reflect upon the importance of
OB, and organisational performance. Moreover, I will mention here the determinants of the
individual behaviour, group dynamics and organisational processes. These aspects will be
described and their link to the enhanced organisational performance. Thus, reflection will
analyse the above aspects using established OB theories and concepts.
Organisational behaviour refers to the study of human behaviour of the people in the
organisation. In other words, the study of OB, i.e. organisational behaviour is analysed as the
study of individual and group activity and performance in context to an organisation. I have
learnt through my lectures, that a person or an employee must hold values and positive
attitude towards their work and organisation. Employee values such as accountability,
delivering quality, and honesty are some of the vital values that determine their commitment
to the organisation. I focused upon my skill set, and understood that effective communication
skills are essential to enhance individual growth and development (Coccia, 2015).
Within the lectures classes and other period of Organisational behaviour, I learnt that ‘team-
work’ an essential element of the success of the group project. I performed the role of the
‘leader’ in the group project given by our professor, and I managed the work with different
team members. Under this project, along with completion, I learned different aspects such
as team dynamics, which is the attitudinal and behavioural characteristics of a group. Thus,
we understood the importance of coordination and positive behaviour towards people or
teamwork for accomplishing the objective (Miner, 2015).
Analysing the above scenario, I understood that an individual or employee must focus upon
developing essential skills to enhance their development. These skills consist of
communication skills, team coordination, integrity, cognitive knowledge and understanding
of the concepts related to OB. For an example, analysing my own skills, I can state that,

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communication skills will boost my confidence and morale to work within team in the
organisation. Not only, will the teamwork acquiring these skills further assist me achieving
the pre-determined goals and objectives (Otley, 2016).
The reflective essay will now mention an example through an incident that I witnessed in
organisations in the past. In organisations, employees are more likely to report the cases or
incidents of harassment. A female employee reported the incident or case of harsh comments
or misconduct from the manager of the company. Women reported the case to the higher
authorities, and it further resulted into a threat to her job, which represent an unethical
practice (Noe et al., 2017).
This requires managers or employers to focus on these problem and ensure their compliance
to the zero tolerance policy, and the values and culture of the organisation. I have learnt
from the lectures, that the organisations, which encourages the element of ‘workforce
diversity’ does not give rise to the issues of discrimination or harassment of employees at the
workplace. On the contrary, the male dominated firms are less likely to report the sexual
harassment cases. This is due to the reason that the managers do not give importance to the
gender diversity within organisation (Guillaume et al., 2017).
From the above case or incident, I have understood that managers or employees in an
organisation should embrace diversity amongst the workforce. The efficiency of employees,
organisational values and culture form an essential part of the organisational behaviour.
Workplace diversity and equal treatment of workers in important to build a great reputation
of the firm and increase opportunities for the people. maintaining diversity and giving equal
importance to the female workers will create a positive work environment. This is an
important parameter for the effective working of the organisation. It will further help in
increasing the growth, and success of the organisation (Thomas, 2015).
I have also understood the association of the values of the organisation with the performance
and development of individuals. The aspect of values and positive work culture of an
organisation is linked to the established organisational behaviour theories and concepts. One
example of the significant theory of OB, is ‘human relations theory’. The theory of
human relations studies the belief that people in an organisation are considered to be a part
of the supportive team, increasing the growth of the organisation (Schulze and Krumm,
2017).

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The issue of harassment and diversity are studied effectively through the human relations
theory. This has been one of the major reasons that our professors emphasized on imparting
the knowledge and understanding of the OB theories and concepts.
According to my experiences throughout the phase of life, I analysed that maintaining
healthy relationships with people is an important skill. This helps the person to establish
connections with the people, let say in an organisation and assist managing the constraints or
issues at workplace (Barak, 2016).
I have studied four different approaches to organisational behaviour, i.e. human resources
approach, contingency approach, productivity approach and system approach. Human
resource approach defines the aspect of growth and development of people working in the
organisation. I have found amongst all the approach of OB, that contingency approach is
most suitable approach in modern organisations. It is due to the fact that it enables managers
to apply the behavioural practices or strategies as per the situation. I have understood that
according to the systems approach, an organisation is referred to as the system vital to the
success (Glinkowsk and Kaczmarek, 2015).
From the above-mentioned discussion, it has been found that managers play vital role or
responsibility in eliminating these issues and improve the performance. I discovered some
important concepts in any organisation, and their relation to work effectiveness of the
individuals working in an organisation. Therefore, application of the motivation theories,
leadership, and redesigning the structure or culture of an organisation is an important
phenomenon. This would incorporate positive work culture, and reduce reporting of the cases
or incidents as one mentioned above. Thus, I will be able to acquire and implement skills and
concepts of OB in the future job or career opportunities (Ramdhani, Ramdhani and
Ainissyifa, 2017) .
To conclude the discussion in the reflective essay it has been analysed that organisational
behaviour is vital for enhancing the organisational effectiveness. The essay has mentioned
different aspects of the concepts of the organisational behaviour, and their application in the
modern organisation. I have also mentioned an example of the incident or case related to the
harassment of the female workers in the organisation. In addition, I have also mentioned the

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importance of the skills of communication, cognitive skills, and knowledge required to work
within team. Hence, an individual must develop or acquire essential skills and work
effectively with the people to attain the stated goals and ensure development in the future.

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