Understanding Organizational Behavior

This assignment delves into the multidisciplinary nature of organizational behavior, exploring challenges faced by organizations in a dynamic environment. It examines how organizational behavior principles influence individual and group performance, organizational culture, and managing change. The text emphasizes the importance of understanding shared values, beliefs, and expectations within an organization and their impact on behavior. Additionally, it discusses various types of organizational culture, including customer service, ethical, and diversity cultures.

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Why does the field of organizational behavior draw on so many different
disciplines?
There are various different disciplines related to organizational behavior. The internal and
external challenges are concerned with leaders and organizational behavior. The challenges are:
Changing diversity of the workforce, the demand of the customers is enhancing and also there is
the change in the level of competition. The disciplines of organizational behavior are also related
to the understanding and managing the behavior of an individual. The performance of an
individual is taken into consideration. To understand the behavior of an individual proper
management should be offered. It includes rewards, stress and also the motivation level of the
individual. Next is group behavior that gives direct impact on the organizational performance
and also affects the employee's day to day operations (Levine, Thompson & Messick, 2013). To
conduct the activities the managers should understand the formal pattern of the activities and also
the activities that are conducted in various departments. The change can be effectively analyzed
when the business consists of technology, demographics and new products. For conducting the
change in a speedy way the psychological contract is taken into consideration. It is an agreement
that is unwritten between the employee and the organization. The physical ability and actions of
an individual are considered to accept the change in the organization (Burke, 2017).
Organizational Culture is a difficult concept to grasp. What does research in
the text and outside the text tell us organizational culture is?
Organizational culture consists of the shared values, beliefs and the expectations that are
influenced by taking into consideration individuals, groups and the organizational processes. It is
also related to the performance level of the people and how they dress in the organization. The
culture enhances the stability to work in an effective manner. If the more employees of the
organization share and consider the values, then the stronger culture is build and the direct
impact will be given on the behavior. It is evaluated that to create an effective organizational
culture it is difficult to enhance the core values. The values that are imposed on an individual
give negative outcome. It creates confusion, irritation an also the cultures take time to evolve

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(Cummings & Worley, 2014). If there is a positive culture in the organization then it can
enhance the teamwork, employee morale and also enhances the information that is shared. There
are various types of culture that are related to organizational culture. First is customer service
that is concerned with the services that are provided or offered to the consumers. Next is ethical
culture that is concerned with the ethical behavior that should be adopted by the organization to
conduct the day to day operations. The last one is diversity that is related to accept and
understand the differences that are seen in the people in respect to age, class, and gender. It is
also evaluated that the change in culture influences the people to resist change and to adopt the
new culture (Konopaske, Ivancevich & Matterson, 2017).

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References
Burke, W. W. (2017). Organization change: Theory and practice. Sage Publications.
Cummings, T. G., & Worley, C. G. (2014). Organization development and change. Cengage
learning.
Konopaske, R.,Ivancevich, J.M. & Matterson,M.T.( 2017).Organizational behavior &
management.(edition 11th).McGraw-Hill Education.
Levine, J. M., Thompson, L. L., & Messick, D. M. (2013). Shared cognition in organizations:
The management of knowledge. Psychology Press.