Theories and Concepts of Organizational Behavior in Managing Employee Concerns

The content discusses various organizational behavior concepts and their application within an organization. It highlights the importance of job satisfaction, leadership, authority, personality, power, and politics in understanding employee behavior. The concept of leadership is further explored with different principles and processes, including self-improvement, technical proficiency, responsibility, decision-making, planning, problem-solving, and communication. The discussion concludes that organizational behavior research can provide a set of policies and concepts to manage these components effectively, ultimately leading to the success of an organization.

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Introduction
This report presents the different theories of organizational behavior that may apply in an
organizational setting. It also discusses the potential organizational problem and the corrective
measures which are taken by management to solve it. It also defines the findings on current
developments in organizational behavior. This report also evaluates the organizational behavior
theories and their application with appropriate concepts. It also determines the leadership
principles and processes to explain the behavior of effective leader and follower.
Organization Behaviors
There are certain theories of organizational behavior which may be applied in organizational
setting such as scientific management and administrative theory. Scientific management theory
was developed by Fredric Taylor who has improved the different tools which are used by
employees for the same job. Along with this, there were no clear guidelines are determined with
respect to the employees and management (Barry, and Wilkinson, 2016). The task is completed
by employees was very slow. Therefore, scientific management theories were developed to
match the abilities and competencies with the output of the workers.
There is no valuable standard of work is existed hence Taylor theories are considered to develop
mental revolution between both management and workers. In this way, clear guidelines have
been made to enhance the production efficiency. There is four principles related to management
is used for organizational setting. The organization must build the scientific solution for each
element of the people. Further, it must scientifically choose, train, teach and create the worker.
Moreover, the organization must coordinate the worker so as to make sure that entire work has to
be done as per the scientific principle (Christina, et al., 2014). The organization also uses

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organizational behavior theory to divide the work and tasks between workers and management in
an equal manner.
It is argued that administrative theory is used for organizational setting. This theory defines the
efforts and universal functions that manager performs and principles which provide the good
management practices. Along with this, the organization considers the five management function
of managers for organization setting. These functions are planning, organizing, co-coordinating,
directing and controlling. It is analyzed that these management practices have sometimes distinct
with certain areas such as finance, accounting, distribution, and production. Along with this, the
organization uses 14 principles of management for a successful run the business. These
principles are a division of labor, authority, discipline, the unity of command, the unity of
direction, and remuneration (Chumg, et al., 2016). Another is the individual interest of
subordinates, centralization, order, equity, and scalar chain. It also includes the stability,
initiatives and esprit de corps.
According to the Coccia, 2014), there are certain potential organizational issues exists within the
company but organization formulates proactive managerial intervention, with a particular
sensitivity towards ethical, social and cultural concerns. These issues are mainly related to
employees and team concern. It is analyzed that individual employee’s issues are associated with
personality conflicts, personal trauma, supervisor issues, and company structure.
Management should understand the causes of concern and who or what should be prevented. In
case, the company has no clear idea then the solution will fall back to inadequate due to
confusing interaction. For instance, a workforce in a decentralized organization should
communicate with multiple supervisors in case chain of command is not communicated
straightforwardly. Along with this, team problem is another organizational issue. In order to

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perform best, teams should be dedicated toward work because it enables them to attain the
targeted goal (Greenberg, 2013). It is analyzed that if a team member has a personal conflict with
each other then the team can be non-functional because they will not support to each other.
These issues are originated from management interaction breakdown that creates complexities
between the team and personal common goal. In such case, the team leader should offer constant
feedback and increase cohesiveness. In case of team issue, the manager should address the issue
and take immediate corrective measures to avoid the more severe performance collapses (j
Mullins, and Christy, 2013).
According to the Kitchin (2017), the modern approach to organizational behavior is based on
findings of truth. It describes that why people behave in the manner they perform. The
organization behavior is the complicated and delicate procedure. This approach describes that if
an individual has aim to organize the organization then entire people should cooperate them and
understand the business operation. It is analyzed that organization is the integration of science
and people. Although, technology and science are predictable human behavior is unpredictable
within the organization.
According to the Luthans et al. (2015), there are different organizational behavior theories and
concepts that have applied in the organization. The application of theory and concepts associated
with organizational behavior can be categorized into different parts named job satisfaction,
reward management, authority, personality, power, politics, and leadership. There is not any
appropriate way to manage these components of the organization. However, organizational
behavior research can facilitate a set of policies and concepts to follow.
It is argued that personality is a series of patterned behavior which plays an effective role in the
manner an individual communicate with groups and creates work. To know the personality of the

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team, the company conducts series of test and makes conversation to facilitate better idea for
adjusting in the working environment as well as motivate to that person who really deserves it.
Moreover, theories with respect to job satisfaction are widely used in the organization but some
author argues that satisfying job consists of a frozen reward system, good supervisors, persuasive
work, and agreeable working environment (McShane, et al., 2013). Leadership is another
essential OB concept which is widely exercised in an organization. It is assessed that when a
person’s views are connected with management then it can be focused, broad, and centralized or
decision oriented, de-centralized and intrinsic in personality. As a result, an organization can
give the authority to this person. In addition to this, power, politics, and authority are used
interdependently within the organization. Hence, employees should understand the effective
ways, workplace rules, and ethical guidelines to run the business successfully.
According to the Miner (2015), there are different leadership principles and processes which are
effective to understand the behavior of leaders and followers. There is the different principle of
leadership that has implemented within the organization. The first principle defines that leaders
should know themselves and looks for self-improvement. In order to understand themselves,
leaders should understand the attributes. It can be accomplished by self-study, reflection, formal
classes, and interacting with others. Moreover, self-improvement means frequently strengthens
their attributes. It can be attained by self-study, reflection, formal classes and communicate with
others. The leader should be technically proficient. As a leader, a person must understand their
job and have a frozen awareness about the tasks of employees.
In addition to this, the leader must seek responsibility and take different responsibility for your
actions. In this way, it should search the ways to direct the organization with respect to new
heights. It has a responsibility that if they thing wrong then they have no right to blame others

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and their followers. Hence, it should assess the condition and then take corrective measures and
shift to the next tasks. Moreover, the leader should use different tools to make a prompt and
sound judgment. These tools are decision making, planning and problem-solving. The leader
should set the example in which leader must be a good role model for their employees. They
should not only hear what they are estimated to do but also see the activities of followers
(Wagner III, and Hollenbeck, 2014).
The leader should understand their followers and seek for their well-being. In this way, leaders
should understand the nature of human and sincerely care the workers. Along with this, the
leader should inform their workers about the operation and also understand the tool of
communication to interact with both employees and seniors. Leaders should build a sense of
responsibility for their employees. In this case, the company should create good character trait
which will help the leader to perform professional responsibilities (wind, et al., 2014). The
company should also ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished. In this
way, communication is the effective way to perform this responsibility.
According to the Wood, et al. (2016), there are different process is executed by leaders for
performing leadership activities. In this way, leaders should find a process to improve the
required issues. After that, a leader inspires the shared vision by which leader shares the vision in
words that can be understood by the followers. Further, leader enables other to act. In this way, it
provides certain tools and technology to resolve the issues. It is stated that when a procedure
gets complex then leaders should provide the way to solve it. They should also encourage their
followers while they are in pain.
Conclusion

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From the above discussion, it can be concluded that there are different theories of organizational
behavior that may be applied in an organizational setting. It is also evaluated that employee and
team concern is potential organization problem hence management takes different corrective
action to solve these issues. It is also summarized that there are different organizational behavior
concept which is applied within the organization such as personality, leadership and change
management. In the last, it can be concluded that there are different leadership principle and
processes are used by management to understand the behavior of leaders and their followers.

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