Organizational Behavior in Slips & Slides: Understanding, Motivation, and Management

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational Behavior
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Executive Summary:
The report deals with organizational behavior in the context of Slips & Slides, a medium sized
accounting company located in the capital city. The company in spite of doing was taken over by
Better & Grow that is also an accounting firm belonging to a bigger city. The report focuses on
the understanding of the organizational behavior. There is also a discussion on the motivation
factor at the work place along with a discussion on the role of the management. The report also
tries to provide an insight into the motivational applications at the combined workplace.

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Table of Contents
Question 1:.......................................................................................................................................2
a. Understanding Organizational Behavior..................................................................................2
b. Multidisciplinary Origins of Organizational Behavior............................................................2
c. Three Dependent Variables of OB Model and its Applications at Slips & Slides...................3
Question 2: Motivation in the Workplace.......................................................................................4
a. Description of Situation at Slips & Slides before Takeover and Motivation Theory for
Explanation..................................................................................................................................4
b. Three Issues Developed since Takeover and their link to Motivation Theory........................6
Question 3: The Role of Management.............................................................................................7
a. Explanation of the Four Classical Functions of Management.................................................7
b. An Overview of the Approach of Two well-known Researchers in the Management Area...8
c. A Brief Discussion of How Perception Influence Decision Making.....................................10
Question 4:.....................................................................................................................................10
a. Scientific Methods by which Changes to Work Environment Improves Motivation..........10
b. Relation of How Three Methods are related to Motivation Theory......................................11
c. How Application of Motivational Theory Improve the Situation at Combined Better &
Grow...........................................................................................................................................12

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Question 1:
a. Understanding Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior (OB) refers to the study of the approach that people adopts for
interacting within the groups (Miner, 2015). The study was generated in an attempt for creating
effectiveness within business organizations. The essential idea to the study involves a scientific
approach applicable to management workers. The theories related to the Organizational Behavior
finds an application in purposes relating to the human resource for maximizing the output of the
individual members of the group. The Organizational Behavior helps in explaining the situations
and predicts consequences because of any change due to changes undertaken within the
organization. There are three aspect of organizational behavior that involves research, theory and
practice. Any organizational behavior model will have six dependent variable and independent
variables. The six dependent variables include absenteeism, turnover, individual productivity,
deviance in workplace behavior, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior. The
independent variables include learning, attitudes, personality, biographical characteristics,
perception, values and emotions.
b. Multidisciplinary Origins of Organizational Behavior
The study of the organizational behavior does depend on single discipline. Therefore, it is
necessary for providing a behavioral science and multidisciplinary viewpoint to it. Three
disciplines have made contribution in the field of the organizational behavior that includes
psychology, sociology and anthropology (Thompson, 2017). Therefore, the multidisciplinary
origin of Organizational Behavior includes: