Organizational Behavior and Issues Affecting Business Culture

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Organizational behavior
5/30/2019

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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).