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Organizational Behavior - Assignment PDF

   

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Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND ITS VARIOUS ASPECTSName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR1Introduction Today, business is not restricted to a place, or territory or a country. Due to highertechnologies, superior working ability and immensely strong thinking ability, man had made theworld as a single and simple market place. It has made businesses go from one continent toanother within days and enjoy the same legacy and popularity as they enjoy in their originalmarket place (Joshi and Fast 2013). There are several factors that has made this phenomenonpossible. Organizational behavior is one of those aspects that has let people communicate witheach other at workplace and improving their job performance, job satisfaction, improving theirbusiness with the help of effective leadership and support of employees. However, there are alsoseveral drawbacks of increasing diversity in the workplace due to globalization of businesses.Such as increasing task conflicts, biased decision making and communication gaps (Tost, Ginoand Larrick 2012). Leaders also contribute to such negative aspects as with power they developoverconfidence that lead them taking wrong decision for the organization. Hence, all thesefactors such as task conflicts, increasing diversity and power and overconfidence are positive aswell as negative aspects of a healthy organizational behavior which should be controlled(Safarzadeh et al. 2012). In this assignment, three articles having these three concepts will bediscussed and prior to that a brief summary of the article will be provided. Finally, arecommendation section will be included directed to the managers or leaders of the organizationso that the negative aspects of organizational citizenship and culture can be reduced. Article summary This first article which was chosen for the discussion is by Guillaume et al. (2017), inwhich the primary aim of the researchers was to determine the effect of workplace diversity on

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR2the working performance, social integration, and wellbeing and was aimed to find out thevariables that can modify these aspects. For the purpose researches found several researcharticles, so that positive or negative effects of workplace diversity can be understood. They usedCategorization Elaboration Model as the theory for identification of variables affectingworkplace diversity. they key area of the research was identifying factors on which theorganization or managers have their control such as leadership, strategy, human resource, unitand designs working environment, climate and culture of organization and so on. This review ofresearch article conducted by Safarzadeh et al. (2012) was importance as they were able to find arelation between workplace diversity with relational demography such as difference betweenemployees, organizational diversity and working group diversity. They included both qualitativeand quantitative research data and used several databases such as PsycInfo, ABI/INFORM andISI web of knowledge for the purpose. The aspects that were researched for having an effect ondiversity was change, instability, complexity ibn process, higher customer demand because ofdiversity and the paper presented a linkage between these with decreases employee ability(Guillaume et al. 2017). The second article chosen for the discussion was by Sinha et al. (2016), in which theresearcher chose the long-standing debate topic in the literature of business, which was taskconflict. This research progresses from the spot, where the abovementioned article finishes asthis research was conducted to understand the effects of the communication or working abilityrelated issues that arises due to diversity. The researcher find out that due to relation relatedconflicts at workplace, the incidence of task conflict increases and results in decreasedproductivity and employee morale. Further the researcher also researched about taskdisagreement in a big team where few members are having high level of disagreement, whereas

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