Unlocking Productivity through Employee Strengths

The significance of motivation in a company is emphasized by Maslow's theory of motivation, which suggests that taking care of basic needs, psychological needs, and self-fulfillment needs of employees can enhance their dedication, urge, and performance. This helps the organization sustain in the competitive market.

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational Behavior
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This essay introduces the vast range of organizational behaviors encountered while
working in the company. A workplace is one of the most culturally diverse environment as it
consists of individuals from different cultural background along with unique behaviors and
preferences. Due to this vast diversity at the workplace, challenges in terms of communication,
productivity and motivation are frequently encountered. Therefore, this essay reflects the
overview of the different organizational behaviors along with analyzing the reasons. The essay
includes the use of motivational theories to analyze the organizational behaviors and its
application in enhancing the work performance of the employees within the organization.
As commented by Ang & Van Dyne (2015), an organization or workplace is the most
culturally diverse environment, as it comprises of individuals with different backgrounds,
preferences and working style. While working as a team, I have identified various behavioral
problems within the organization. According to Rice (2015), organizational stress is one of the
significant issue encountered while working as a team. From week 3, I have learned that
organizational stress can rise due to preferences in the working style and varying mindsets. This
is because another might not prefer the working style of one employee. On the other hand, stress
might arise due to the conflict between the managers and employees. According to me, stress
leads to the negative working environment that lowers the productivity of the organizations. As
the employees are stressed, they are unable to emphasize on the goals and objectives of the
organizations. I feel stress can lead to burnout of employees. According to me, stress develops
negative mentality within the employees thereby, hampering the productivity. As a result, the
employees develop lack of commitment and dedication issues towards their work. I think stress
leads to poor performance thereby, hampering the overall organizational performance. According
to the week 3 module, I ascertain that stress leads to organizational behavioral problems that

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hamper the characteristics of the employees. According to me, stress hampers the time
management quality of the employees. As the employees are already stressed, they lose their
ability to manage time and complete the work within time. Therefore, the performance and the
motivation of the employee are hampered. Additionally, stress results in shifting of the focus for
the employees. As the employees are stressed, they are unable to focus on the goals and
objectives and plan accordingly to complete the task successfully. I have learned that stress
hampers the ability of the individuals to remember things that they already know and implement
it while working. Due to stress, employees are easily distracted and vulnerable to make costly,
harmful and fatal mistakes on the job. As mentioned by Elias, Smith & Barney (2012),
behavioral changes lead to increase in the employee turnover thereby, affecting the financial
aspect of the organizations. I have learned that behavioral changes lead to lack of commitment
for the employees. As the employees lack dedication and commitment towards their work, the
organizational performance is hampered and the organization is unable to achieve the goals.
Therefore, the business organizations need to recruit new individuals with greater work
dedication and commitment. As a result, the employee turnover of the company will increase
thereby, wasting the resources of the company. According to Andersen, Nielsen & Brinkmann
(2012), behavioral issues are also noticed due to lack of motivation. I have learned that lack of
motivation results in the lack of dedication, accurate guidance and ability to achieve goals.
According to me, lack of motivation also results in low commitment within the employees
thereby, affecting the overall organizational performance. I have also learned that inappropriate
motivation results in low performance from the employees. As a result, overall dip in the
organizational performance is noticed.

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Behavioral problems are often encountered within the organization due to team works. A
team is composed of culturally diverse individuals (Erez et al., 2013). This is because different
individuals within the team might have different preferences in terms of working style, beliefs,
and cultural background. Therefore, I have learned that preferences among the individuals lead
to conflicts within the group. Conflicts within the group result in building a negative working
environment and hampers the relationship between the team members (Tadmor et al., 2012). As
a result, the team fails in achieving the goals and objectives and the overall performance of the
employees and organizations are hampered. Due to conflicts between the team members, the
individuals might not prefer a cross-cultural working environment. From the module, I have
learned that cross-cultural working environment results in lack of intention among the team
members to perform better. From the various organizational behavioral issues, I have learned
that the major cause of organizational behavioral issues is due to lack of motivation within the
team (Ramthun & Matkin, 2012). Therefore, I suppose, motivation is the key to manage
culturally diverse working environment successfully.
Motivation is the key manage organizational behavior successfully (Paul, 2012).
According to me motivation maintains, controls and energizes the behavioral aspect of the
employees within the organization. Therefore, sufficient motivation is essential for maintaining a
healthy culture and providing guidance to the team members. According to me, motivation is the
internal control of the individuals that activates their behavior thereby, providing direction and
goal to the individual behavior. I have learned that motivation helps in achieving the goals of the
employees within the team are directed in the right direction and has proper guidance.
Motivation is crucial within the cross-cultural working environment, as this helps in establishing
a positive working environment. Positive working culture makes the employees more dedicated

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and enthusiastic towards their work thereby, increasing the overall performance of the
organization. According to me, motivation also helps in continuous self-development of the
employees. As the employees are in continuously learning phase, they tend to make mistakes. I
think rectifying the mistakes and motivating them for their contribution, effort, and hard work
will enhance their overall performance. As the employees get the continuous scope of learning,
development, and motivation, they will tend to remain with the organization. This will eventually
decrease the employee turnover of the business organizations thereby, saving their internal and
external resources. From the module, I have also learned that motivation helps in increasing the
efficiency level of the employees. As a result, increase the productivity occurs by reducing
operations cost along with improving the overall efficiency (Manzoor, 2012).
From the module, I have already learned that motivation leads to the achievement of
organizational goals resulting in best possible utilization of resources, cooperation, work
environment and making the employee goal-directed. As mentioned by Li, Tan & Teo (2012),
leaders provide motivation and help in creating a vision for the employees. The motivation
provided by the leaders help the employees in believing in themselves and making the change
into reality. Motivation helps the employees to work together as a team by accepting each other
along with accepting their individual characteristics. According to me, motivation help
individual employees to be patient and having a broad mindset. Due to the open-mindedness
gained by the employees, the team faces fewer conflicts. However, in spite of facing conflicts,
the employees are also able to resolve the conflict and work together. Because of motivation, a
positive and friendly working environment is established that increases the productivity of the
employees. Therefore, the employee turnover of the organizations decreases enabling effective
management of the resources.

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Motivation is the key force driving the organizational behavior and success (Avolio &
Yammarino, 2013). The employees feel demotivated due to various reasons such as lack of
positive working environment, lack of effective communication between the managers and
employees and among the employees along with difficulty in conflict resolution. Lack of
motivation is challenging for ensuring and establishing appropriate organizational behavior. The
employees put their hard work and effort for the betterment and progress of the organization. As
suggested by Chaudhry & Javed (2012), the contribution of the employees increases the
organizational productivity and performance. As a result, the organizations are able to sustain in
the competitive market. At certain instances, the employees get easily demotivated due to the
nature of their work. For example, the basic level workers of the manufacturing industry are
easily demotivated due to the tedious nature of the work. Therefore, demotivated employees
hamper the overall behavior of the organization.
As mentioned by Faletar et al., (2016), demotivated employees lacks dedication towards
the work and engagement towards the organization. As a result, the employees are unable to
enjoy their work. As the workers are unable to enjoy their work, the nature of nature becomes
tedious and exhausting for them. Thus, the employees are lack commitment to their respective
job role thereby, resulting in lack of employee engagement. Lack of employee engagement
increases the rate of absenteeism thereby, creating an inappropriate organizational behavior
(Pascual-Ezama, Prelec & Dunfield, 2013). As the employees are absent majority of the times,
they fail to establish effective communication and relationship with the fellow workers and the
managers. I think it is essential to have an effective communication between the managers and
the employees and among the employees. This allows the employees to share their issues and
challenges with the managers as well as the fellow employees. According to me, it will be easier

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for the managers to establish positive organizational culture if they are able to resolve the issues
and challenges faced by the employees. Thereafter, the employees might also feel motivated if
they know that the managers are aware of the issues and challenges and are taking actions to
resolve them at the earliest.
Another issue is noticed due to lack of motivation is less or no commitment from the
employees. If the organizations fail to motivate the employees, they tend to develop non-
commitment to the organizational objectives and directives. According to me, lack of motivation
hampers the employee engagement towards their job roles and organization (Coleman, Brooks &
Ewart, 2013). As a result, they show minimal interest, dedication, and enthusiasm towards the
work. Thus, the organizational productivity decreases and the overall performance of the
organization is hampered. The workplace is one of the most culturally diverse environment as it
employs people from different background. The culturally diverse workplace leads to potential
conflicts, as each employee have distinct beliefs and personalities. According to me, the
individual employees need continuous motivation to work together as a team. Moreover,
motivation also helps to resolve the conflicts within the team. Therefore, it can be said that
motivation is the key for establishing a positive working environment and successful
organizational behavior.
Maslow’s theory of motivation is one of the most widely used motivational theories used
by business organizations as guidance for motivating the employees. As commented by Maslow
(2013), Maslow's theory of motivation highlight the reason behind changing the human needs
rather than considering the method of changing human needs. Maslow's theory of motivation
consists of five steps in the shape of pyramids including physiological needs, safety needs, social
needs, esteem needs and self-actualization.

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It is necessary that the organization take care of the physical needs of their employees in
order to provide them psychological and emotional stability. According to me, the physical needs
in terms of air, food, water and clothing needs of the employees to be fulfilled in order to
motivate them. If the organizations the employees are working for taking care of the physical
needs of their esteemed employees, the employees are eventually motivated. As a result, their
dedication, engagement and the urge of working is enhanced thereby, increasing the commitment
of the employees towards the organization and their job roles. Along with the physical needs, I
think, the level of safety and protection helps in motivating the employees. The level of safety
and security dominate the behavior of the employees (Noltemeyer et al., 2012). According to me,
personal and financial safety along with health and well-being of the employees are significant
for motivating them. Therefore, the organization needs to ensure workplace safety for preventing
accidents of the employees along with taking care of the medical and financial factors of the
employees. The more the employees are relaxed the more they feel motivated. Therefore, I think
the organizations need to abide by the health and safety policies at the workplace. This will help
in motivating the employees appropriately thereby, enhancing the employee performance and
engagement. According to Latham (2012), the social needs and environment motivate the
employees by having a positive impact on the interpersonal relations and feeling of the
belongings. I think the relationship with the fellow worker and the managers along with the
working environment helps in motivating the employees. Having a close relationship and
bonding with the fellow employees allows the employees to have each other’s back and share the
workload. Moreover, the positive relationship among the employees allows them to cover the
weakness of the individual employees and use their strengths for completion of the tasks.
Moreover, positive relationship with the managers also helps in motivating the employees.

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Because of the positive relationship between the managers and the employees, a level of
transparency is established that helps in motivating the employees.
As mentioned by Taormina & Gao (2013), individuals deserve and expect respect for
them both professionally and personally. Respect includes both self-respect and self-esteem. I
think the employees deserve respect both from the fellow employees and from the managers.
According to me, the employees need to be respected for their effort, contribution and hard work
towards the organization. Appropriate respect helps in motivating the employees. This is because
the employees feel they are valued possession and asset for the organization. The concept of self-
actualization highlights the complete potential of an individual along with realizing the complete
potential (Kaur, 2013). According to me, this is the desire and urge within the employees to
achieve and accomplish success. I think this is the self-motivation that comes internally from the
employees thereby, influencing personal and professional growth.
In this essay, it can be concluded that it is essential to have a positive working
environment. Lack of positive working environment hampers the employees thereby, hampering
the overall performance of the employees. In this essay, I can say that improper organizational
behavior results in lack of commitment for the employees towards the organizations. Therefore,
motivation is the key factor that determines the successful participation of the employees
thereby, enhancing the organizational performance. Motivating the employees appropriately
results in building a positive relationship between the managers and the employees as well as
among the employees. Thus, the employees are able to cover the potential weaknesses of the
fellow employees by their individual strengths. This eventually increases the productivity
thereby, enabling the company to sustain in the competitive market. The significance of
motivation is described by Maslow’s theory of motivation. The theory also suggests that taking

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care of the basic needs, psychological needs and the self-fulfillment needs of the employees
helps in motivating the employees thereby, enhancing their dedication, urge, and performance.

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