Reflection on Organization Behaviour

Running Head: REFLECTION ON ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR
REFLECTION ON ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR
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Essay question selected: Reflect on an incident you have involved in or witnessed in a
work environment in the past. What should have been done differently drawing on OB
theories and concepts?
‘Organizational Behaviour’ can be considered as the study of human behaviour,
responses within the premises of an organization. More specifically organizational behaviour
investigates the influence that an individual, group, or the structure of an organization can
cast upon the behaviour or interaction within a company or institution (Barry & Wilkinson,
2016). The purpose of this study is to reflect on a workplace incident, I was the witness of.
Further this reflective study analyses the situation reflected with reference to concepts of
Organizational Behaviour, and finds out things which should have been done in a different
way.
One of the most significant incidents of ‘Organization Behaviour’ I witnessed during
my first job, in a popular ad agency. Six years ago, I joined as a graphic designer in an ad
agency, which is internationally famous. It was my first job. I felt blessed to get an excellent
industry exposure. As I was not experienced that time, initially I used to face so many
problems. A series of incidents happened with me and those who joined with me, which
made me realize that everybody within the organization was always in a hurry and the human
interaction within the organization as well as the work environment was not supportive
enough for learning and growth of novice employees. As we were graphic designers,
sometimes we had to use software which we were not compatible. The difficulty in using
those software sometimes delayed my work. There were senior employees who were
proficient in using different kinds of software but due to the lack of time often they were
unable to guide me, even if intended to do so. Due to this problem our work was not only
delayed often the quality of the work was also affected. Hence, the organizational behaviour
as well as work culture were not supportive enough for novice employees to learn and grow.

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Many of the new joiners was going through the same situation. Some of them tried to interact
with the employer to resolve the issue but they received the ignorance of the higher authority
in return. The company treated the employees specially the new joiners as inferior and
reluctant to care about the issues faced by them. Another thing which I found that, there were
lack of motivation program or employee engagement programs, for which many of the
employees, including the senior employees, could not excel at their work, lacked energy as
well as enthusiasm. There were no one to care about the problem faced by the employees, but
instead of several issues related to work, employees need to obey the higher authority strictly.
Hence, the organizational behaviour reflected that the company believes in ‘hire and fire’
principles. More specifically, that company did not provide the new employees enough
opportunity to adapt and grow before firing them because of their inefficiency. This gave
birth to a fear psychosis in the employees and they remained under pressure which was
unethical. Observing all these some of the new joiners started resigning. The situation
became worse when the company experience major employee turnover.
From the analysis of the above situation, it can be said that, the organization used to
follow Fuedal and Autocratic models and concepts of organizational behaviour. Fuedal
model suggests that the employees as well as the workers of the lower strata should be
considered inferior by the manager and boss or the higher authority. Employee well-being
was not the objective of this model of organizational behaviour. Rather this model believed in
treating employees sternly and applying ‘hire and fire’ policies, without listening to the
problem of the employees (Kondalkar, 2007). This model also belies in creating fear
psychosis among employees with the help of unethical pressure Again, the concept followed
by Autocratic model assumes that being the most powerful persons of an organization
managers hire or fire employees. Both the model does not consider the importance of
motivation to retain employees. Also, the Autocratic model assumes the higher salaries to