Organizational Behaviour - Reflective Writing and Analysis of Managing Differences

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational Behaviour
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Reflective Writing
Reflection on Incident witnessed by me in previous workplace and analysis of managing
differences drawing on Organizational Behaviour Theories
Introduction
While working with my team members in my University project, I faced different
kind of difficulties while performing the tasks. I faced various issues that included absence of
the team identity and poor communication gap. The team members were not supportive with
me and they did not assist me with the tasks that was required to be performed by me. I felt as
if I was not the member of my team due to the ineffective leadership along with lack of
motivation among me and my team mates.
Furthermore, I felt as if there was lack of creativity in the tasks performed by our
team. I could not gel with the other members in an appropriate manner as I could not resolve
the conflicts with my team leader as there was no such cooperation in the team and among
the team mates as well. The respective team leader did not allow me to participate in different
group discussions and none of my opinions were taken into consideration. I felt devastated as
there was no such importance given to the dedication and the tasks that was performed by
me.
I feel that in a team proper motivation and support is essential and necessary in nature
in order to manage the entire team. The communication skills play a major role in
understanding the different grievances of the team members and solve them as per their
convenience. The groupthink ability was missing in the team wherein the ideas were not
being entertained and team is unwilling to consider the alternative approaches and ideas of
the team members.

2ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Reinforcement Theory
Furthermore, there was negative reinforcement taking place in the university project
as the group members behaved badly with me and did not corporate with me to help me in
understanding the different kinds of tasks that were allocated to me. The attitudes and
behaviour of the fellow colleagues were not at all supportive in nature and this created a
negative influence on my behaviour as well (Ling 2017).
However, I tried to cordially communicate and the cultural differences started to
occur more in the tasks performed by me. The reinforcement theory is defined as wherein the
main aspect is when the behaviour is reinforced, this can be repeated again and same
behaviour will continue to be the same unless something positive is done (Alshmemri,
Shahwan-Akl and Maude 2017). There are two kinds of reinforcement types such as positive
and negative reinforcement (Tanner 2017).
Furthermore, it was noticed that the presentation prepared by me was not appreciated
and there were negative discussions among the team members about my tasks. I felt that the
motivation is essential in nature as this influenced the group members in a positive manner.
However, this kind of personality was missing in the team members and team leader and this
caused demotivation.
Motivational Theories
From the incident, I learnt that the motivation is one of the essential component that is
required to be provided to the employees in order to improve their morale and productivity of
the team members as well (Collins et al. 2017). The McClelland’s theory of motivation can
be applied in the group to include the need for achievement, affiliation and power among the
team members. This motivation theory is not inherent and this is developed through life and
work experiences (Ziar and Ahmadi 2017).