Organizational Behaviour at Griffith University

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Introduction
Griffith University is a research institute located in South East Queensland on the east coast
of Australia. It started in the year 1971. Its first degrees included environmental science and
Asian studies. The institution gets its name from Sir Samuel Walker Griffith who served as
chief justice of the high court of Australia. Griffith comprises of over 44,000 students, and it
offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in areas of business, criminology,
education, engineering and computer technology, environment, planning and architecture,
health, humanities and languages, music, science and aviation including visual and creative
arts (Wilson, 2017). Griffith University has a diverse cultural, intellectual, sporting, and
social groups. The institution ranks the fourteenth out of the 29 universities in Australia.
Across the globe, it ranks as the 450th, especially in terms of its Academic performance.
Griffith is amongst the leading universities in producing the most competent individuals in
business administration programs.
Since 2008 Griffith has won seven awards for the teaching prowess and
citations too, three awards for programs to boost learning,42 citations for outstanding
contributions to student learning and seven national teaching fellowships. Its staff also has
been named as the staff of the year. Its researchers work in 38 centers researching matters to
deal with climate change adaptation, fraud and crime detection and prevention, sustainable
tourism and health and chronic disease. Griffith does research for business, an industry in
general and the government.
In terms of sports, students who are talented in sports they too have more significant
opportunity to join Griffith sports college, which enables them to balance sporting and their
studies at the college. Griffith also has got the student support unit named as the

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(GUMURRII) student support, which assists students from recruitment, to orientation
providing both undergraduate and postgraduate support. A branch of the Griffith university
known as the Griffith English language institute enables students who don't speak English to
master the English language. Griffith too plays a significant role in the cooperate
responsibility sector as it provides room for surrounding educational activities, exhibitions,
seminars and workshops and the center for cultural dialogues. The University has got
branches in Logan, Nathan, south bank as well as Gold coast. It facilitates the mentorship of
the students, and it promotes their leadership capabilities by promoting their experiences
globally. It is after insecurity cases on sexual harassment between the year 2012 to 2016.
Griffith management decided to come up with security forces to curtail such cases which
would destroy the universities' goodwill and reputation hence providing a suitable and safe
surrounding for the students. The study focuses on organizational behavior at Griffith
University. An organization can serve as a collection of people working towards a common
goal. The research of organizational behavior focuses on an individual in an organization.
People will always behave differently in different situations. The culture of an organization
can also build someone's behavior. Each organization strives to ensure it has provided the
right culture to reap the best from its employees.
Description and analysis of organizational behavior
Organizational behavior is a discipline of study that focuses on the effect that people,
groupings, and the organizational structures have on the general organization and then using
the findings in promoting the organization's efficiency and effectiveness. In analyzing the
organizational behavior of Griffith am going to look organizational behavior by focusing to
individuals and groups then the effect that the organizational structure of Griffith has on the
behavior portrayed by its individuals (Stanton & Baber, 2017). Thirdly the use of the found

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findings to achieve organizational efficiency and effectiveness. The study aims to ensure that
human reactions and behavior promote corporate growth and productivity.
Several fields such as political science, psychology, sociology have a positive impact on
organizational behavior. A leader should lead by informing his juniors on what is happening
in the organization both externally and internally.
Goals of the study.
a). Predicting organizational behavior
Predicting organizational behavior is essential both to the inside and outside of the
organization. One of the primary goals was to predict the behavior of Griffith stakeholders by
looking keenly at how they behave throughout the study.
b). Explaining organizational behavior
Another motive for studying Griffith was to be able to explain various events that take place
at Griffith and how they influence the functioning of the individuals. The study tries to
determine why is it that employees at Griffith tend to be late for the job in most of the days
and to the reason for the increased level of labor turnover in most of the past years.
c). How to effectively manage organization behavior
Management involves ensuring that words have done towards achieving the organization
objective. The study focuses on investigating how Griffith makes use of the available
resources to achieve planned goals.