MBA 701: Comprehensive Organizational Behavior Audit Plan

This report presents a comprehensive plan for conducting an organizational behavior audit, addressing the needs of a local company's new CEO. It begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of organizational behavior audits in preventing destructive practices, maintaining ethical standards, and enhancing client satisfaction. The report then outlines the rationale behind conducting such audits, emphasizing the need for companies to adapt to a competitive business environment and retain motivated employees. It details the areas of assessment, including organizational mechanisms, individual results, and characteristics, and identifies key factors like organizational mission, human resource structure, and leadership styles to be evaluated. The plan also emphasizes the importance of communication, access to information, and awareness among stakeholders throughout the audit process. Finally, the report includes a discussion on the significance of each factor in the audit and provides recommendations for improvement, concluding with a call for proactive measures to address potential issues before they escalate. References are provided at the end of the document.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
The Environment Control............................................................................................................................3
Rationale of the organizational behavior audit............................................................................................3
Access and Awareness.................................................................................................................................4
Areas of Assessment....................................................................................................................................5
Factors in relation to the organizational behavior audit...............................................................................6
Organization Mission and purpose..........................................................................................................6
Human resource structure........................................................................................................................7
The system of management.....................................................................................................................8
Practical management..............................................................................................................................8
Reward system........................................................................................................................................8
Organizational behavior and leadership...................................................................................................9
Techniques and performance standards...................................................................................................9
Management level.................................................................................................................................11
Significance of the factors in relation to the organizational behavior audit...............................................11
Communication findings...........................................................................................................................12
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................................12
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................13
References.................................................................................................................................................14
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Introduction
It can be said that organization behaviors which does not conform the standards have impacted
the corporate reputation and also led to financial losses. Organizational leadership requires being
more proactive and it is important to conduct periodic organizational behavior audit so that it is
easy to prevent the destructive practices related to organizational behavior. This will also enables
the company to consider the applicable laws, standards and ethical practices in the workplace
(Macdonald, Burke and Stewart, 2017).
It can be examined that the organizational behavior audit which is conducted on the behalf of the
organization can help in maintaining the process of excellent audit. It will help to enhance the
satisfaction level of the clients in references to the issues faced by the employees in the
workplace. The meaning of the audit can be defined as the cause that focuses on maintaining the
activities of the company. Audit is the word which is derived from the Latin Verb which means “
audire” which is related with the meaning of comprehend. The organizational behavior audit
helps to analyze the challenges that exist in the workplace and it is one of the best ways that can
assist the company in resolving the issues in an effective manner (Donovan et al., 2016).
The organizational behavior audit demands the excellent audit on the behalf of the company so
that it could be easy to deal with the workers in the workplace. By conducting the audit of the
company it can be easy for identify the challenges and solutions in relation to the issues faced in
the workplace. Audit can help in gathering the perception of the workers and also it assists the
concerned employees to have in-depth understanding of the need of the organizational behavior
audit (King and Lawley, 2016).
It is important for the auditing officers to communicate the advantages of the organizational
behavior audit as it helps in boosting the positive culture in the workplace. This approach can
also positively influences the workers to be more cooperative and supportive in relation to the
entire process. The information collected through audit assist in identifying the actual challenges
that is present in the workplace. By knowing the challenges present in the workplace will help
the company and also the consulting organization to rectify it by considering with the accurate
solutions (Ma’Ayan and Carmeli, 2016).
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The organizational behavior audit helps to recognize and elaborate about the attitudes and
behavior of the people and groups within which activities of the company are conducted. By
conducting the organizational audit plan it will be easy to track the job performance, employee
engagement and also commitment in perspective of employees and employer. This also focuses
on the initiative in relation to the organizational teaching (Pollock et al., 2018).
The Environment Control
The organizational audit strength will consist of the strategic control environment in which the
emphasis will be given on the elements such as organizational structure, the activities of human
resource, ethical framework, organizational hierarchy and also employee’s skills
(Karaibrahimoglu and Cangarli, 2016).
There can be many situations, where the surveys of the employees will be considered in
analyzing the contribution of the management in creating positive organizational environment.
Communication in the workplace will be analyzed to evaluate the routine activities of the
company. It is important for the officers who have the information of the internal working
structure of the company to be a part of the organizational audit as it will assist the audit team to
analyze the solutions of the real challenges (Reiman et al., 2015). The valuable information can
be given by the employees to the auditors which will help to make changes in the entire process
of the company. Changes can be considered as the process of the company that should be
considered so that it could be easy to maintain the operational activities of the company. It is
necessary for the company to maintain the changes so that it could be easy to maintain the large
market share in the business environment. The in-depth analysis can be done if emphasis is given
on doing the organization audit as it will help in giving direction to the company to consider
effective strategies that will assist in attaining growth in the market (Argyris, 2017).
Rationale of the organizational behavior audit
In the business environment where the level of competition is high it has been seen that it is
forcing the companies to bring improvisation in their process, production of the goods and
services and in retaining the employees in the workplace. It is necessary to maintain the
organizational business environment so that it could be easy for the companies to attain growth
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and profitability. It would not be easy to attain success on the global platform without having in-
depth knowledge of managing the activities related to organizational behavior. By having proper
understanding of the organizational behavior of the companies and to manage it in a proper
manner will assist to make the products and service quality superior and also maintains security
of the company’s position in the highly competitive market (Kirwan, 2016).The organizational
audit will highlight the important things that are required to be worked so that it could be easy to
bring transformation in the ordinary workers to the extraordinary workers as it will assist in
maintaining the competitive advantage. In the present business world, it is difficult to search for
the dedicated employees but organizational behavior audit will highlight that what should be
done to induce and to retain the talented and motivated employees in the workplace (Noe et al.,
2017).
The organizational behavior audit will also assist to search about the knowledge of the staff and
also their performance. It will help to evaluate the compliance of the company in relation to the
rules and policies (Olins, 2017). Also, it will assist in evaluating that how to boost the
satisfaction of the service offered to make the work process more efficient for the employees to
carry out the routine work. It will also emphasize on measuring the overall development by
questioning about the factors that have improved or get worsen as an outcome of functional
initiatives (Booth, 2018).
The audit also creates an early warning sign to evaluate the problems before they generate into
the severe issues. The organizational behavior environment is changing in a dynamic manner and
the legal implications are also impacting the organization, workers and the stakeholders. The
organizational behavior audit will emphasize on the legal compliance and also evaluate the
effectiveness of the organization (Shore and Wright, 2015). This will assist to search the areas of
strength and also weakness related to the improvement which is required. It can be said that the
audit will consist of the evaluation of the present performance, policies and also the inclusion in
context to the set standards against the organizations that are similar in size (Bell, Bryman and
Harley, 2018).
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Access and Awareness
The organization is expected to give permission to the audit team regarding the access to the
information or the documents that will be required to support the work done by the auditors. It is
recommended to the company to inform the stakeholders about the operations of the auditing
team as it assist in maintaining cooperation and support at the time of doing the activities. The
auditing team will also ensure that management should have understanding of the information
which is required at the time of doing audit. This will also reduce the delays in the activities and
maintain the accuracy in analyzing the different situations of the company (Clegg, Kornberger
and Pitsis, 2015).
Areas of Assessment
The team of organizational behavior audit should work with the checklist so that guidance can be
considered in relation to the auditing of the policies, functions and records of the company and it
will also help in searching the trends that will enable to evaluate in a proper manner (Nilsen,
2015). The areas of the company that will be analyzed in reference to the organizational behavior
audit will consist of the organizational mechanism, group mechanism, individual results,
individual mechanisms and the characteristics of the individuals (Adelopo, 2016).
It is important to focus on considering the organizational culture and the knowledge of the
workers in relation to the values and beliefs of the organization which will affect the attitudes
and also the behaviors (Furnham and Gunter, 2015). It is essential to emphasize on considering
the process of communication so that it could be easy to determine the mode of communication
and also what will be effective at the time of receiving and understanding the information that is
given (Coghlan, 2019). The other areas on which the emphasis will be given are leadership style
and behavior that will help to consider that how the actions of the management influence the
employees and also the other stakeholders in reference to the leadership power.
It is necessary to focus on the team dynamic by considering the different characteristic and
diversity that will help to determine the formation of the teams, the staffing process,
communication, conflicts, coordination and also the cohesion of the team workers. The audit will
emphasize on maintaining the satisfaction of the employees towards job, employees
psychological experience and also their expectation level. The focus will also be given on the
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motivation and the forces that will help the employees to excel in their career and will also boost
the opportunities for growth (Alleyne, Hudaib and Haniffa, 2018). The audit will consider the
ethics to analyze the degree in relation to which the workers will feel that the organization
conduct the activities with integrity. There are various different traits and characteristics that will
be considered to maintain the differences in the way the employees in the workplace will react to
the events will be also the area in which the auditing will be done. The audit should be directed
to focus on the areas that can help to maintain some tangible outcome and also it will assist in
addressing the missions, plans, policy and strategy, structure of the company (Hillson and
Murray-Webster, 2017).
Factors in relation to the organizational behavior audit
There are different factors in relation to the organizational behavior audit that will be analyzed
and it will consist of the key factors that impact the organization. These different factors will be
considered in relation to the set of questions which will be created and used in the process of
auditing (McIlwraith, 2016). These questions will also be tested and changes will be made so
that it could be easy to obtain the correct information.
Organization Mission and purpose
Question 1) what is the motive in relation to the organization behavior in this organization?
a.) What are the desires of the company?
b.) What are the desires of the employees?
c.) What will be the mission in relation to the organizational behavior capacity?
2. What are the targets in context to the organizational behavior?
a.) Is the set goals reliable in context to the main goal of the company?
b.) Is the goals conveyed in a proper manner?
c.) Are the destinations related with the individuals?
3. What will be the activities in relation to the organizational behavior?
a.) what should the company needs in relation to the activities?
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b) what are the lawful commitments behind the different operations?
c.) what are the set prerequisites that are pushing the operations?
4. What can be priorities in the present scenario?
a.) How can be the priorities showcased?
b.) what is the relative weight in relation to the priorities?
c.) what progress can be made to satisfy the priorities?
Human resource structure
1.) What is the role played by the human resource department?
a.) What skills are necessary for the human resource department?
b.) Is the company under staff, or over staff?
c.) What is the process of remuneration or the benefits?
d.) What is the career progression for the employees?
e.) How to maintain the positive working environment?
f.) What help does the HR offer?
g.) Is it possible to maintain the HR responsibilities?
h.) Who can be the recipient in relation to the HR counsel?
i.) Who can be the superior authority in relation to these areas?
2. What can be relationship related with reporting?
a.) To whom does the HR report at the corporate level?
b.) why it is important for the HR to report to the people?
c.) to whom does the HR report and why it is important for the HR to report the person?
d.) Are these problems linked with the reporting?
e.) What can be aspects that are linked with the problems of HR Reporting?
3. What are the accountabilities of the HR?
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a.) At the corporate level?
b.) divisional and on different levels?
c.) the HR ethical behavior can be enforced in relation to the organizational practice?
d.) Is the accountability of the HR affecting the system in a positive or in a negative way ?
4. In relation to the HR administrative powers what are the levels in the various functional,
divisional and hierarchy of the level in the workplace?
The system of management
1. What are the factors related to planning in this area?
a.) How the long term, midterm and short term strategies can be on the place?
b.) How can planning link to the plans of the company?
c.) What will be the employee engagement level in relation to the planning events?
2. What are the tools that can take place in relation to performance?
a.) How should the performance analysis tool be designed?
b.) What are the factors related to performance that should be considered?
c.) How the monitoring tools are followed?
d.) What is related with the framework of coordination?
e.) What are the performance criteria that can be considered?
Practical management
a.) What are the procedures in relation to actual and perceived business and general
administration?
b.) How important are the requirement related with the new or existing is for the business to
employees?
c.) What is the organizational capacity to plan and focus on the functions?
d.) How can planning and execution be handled?
Reward system
1.) Define remuneration plan?
2.) Is remuneration related with the productivity?
3.) How can productivity be boosted?
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4.) Is the worker within the organizational framework having the knowledge of the
remuneration?
5.) Does the competitive remuneration relate with the industry or locality?
6.) Is the process of remuneration constant?
7.) Is the base pay generous?
8.) What can be the fringe advantages and privileges?
9.) Are there any other advantages in relation to the non monetary term?
10.) What can be the career development approach to the opportunities?
11.) Do the workers have the sense in relation to career fulfillment?
12.) Do the workers have the feeling to be recognized?
Organizational behavior and leadership
1.) What can be the leadership style considered by the company?
2.) How do the higher authorities related with the subordinates to manage the
responsibilities?
3.) How do the subordinates show their dedication to consider the leadership given by the
higher authorities?
4.) How the leadership led by the example?
5.) Is the employees in the workplace are motivated by the leadership style?
6.) Does the leadership style participate in relation to the floor operations when required?
7.) Is management focusing on the productive workplace?
8.) Is the management focusing on investing the performance management process?
9.) What can be style of the company in relation to strategic operations?
10.) Does the style of leadership offer value to the employees?
11.) How much the employees are satisfied in relation to the leadership style?
12.) What is the perception in context to the organizational leadership?
13.) What can be the perception in relation to the reality gap?
Techniques and performance standards
1. Are the operational objectives unambiguous and well maintained?
a.) Is the objectives are maintained in relation to the execution?
2. How can be objectives of the company separated?
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b.) Is there any interrelation among the activities?
c.) Are the methods for completing the activities feasible?
3. Are the strategies of the company aligned in context to the structure?
a.) Are the strategies of the company justified?
b.) Are the strategies current?
4. Is there any improvement and support in relation to the techniques and measures?
a.) Is repetition of the activities industrialized?
b.) Are the capabilities clear?
c.) Is the teamwork in the workplace is boosted?
d.) Is the process of the organization well planned and documented?
e.) Do it posses the resources which are needed?
f.) Does it focus on the recent cases?
g.) Is it important for the training?
h.) Is the job description present in context to the job position?
i.) Do the focus is given on the current responsibility?
j.) Is there any update in relation to the job description?
k.) Is there are reasonable model in relation to the performance in context to the
organizational activities to help the management to control and review?
a.) Is the benchmarks related with the other problems?
8. Are the records shows the progress of the people towards the objectives in relation to the
different department and company?
a. Is there any strategy where these records will be communicated to the people so that he or
she can make the decisions related to their career?
9. Is the company focuses on the performance review related with the achievement of the
people as compared to the fixed standards?
10. Is there any improvement plan for the function of the human resources?
Workers behavior and also their well being
1. How the atmosphere is created by the senior management within which the workers
should conduct the activities?
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2. Which authority focuses on deciding the connection among the workers in context to the
external companies?
3. Is there any room for initiative or risk taking?
a.) Is there any chance of making the mistake which is acceptable?
4. Is the data of the company present for the employees to be accessed when required?
5. How the data can be accessed?
6. Is there any originality of the thoughts, creativity and critical evaluation of the activities
boosted and acknowledged?
7. How is the employee’s motivation level measured?
Management level
1.) Does the management have proper well established succession plan?
2.) Is there any old or experience worker in the workplace?
3.) Is there an acceptable ration of the young individual in the management?
4.) Is there a strategy for the leaders in the workplace?
5.) Is the employees in the workplace are motivated towards the leadership positions?
6.) What is the overall rate of the turnover in relation to the management staffing?
7.) Is there any focus to fill the position of the top management in relation to the inside and
outside of the company?
8.) How does the organization offer advancement in the career?
9.) What is the situation of maintaining the health and safety in the workplace in relation to
the activities of the company?
Significance of the factors in relation to the organizational behavior audit
By analyzing the above aspects in relation to the organizational behavior audit it can be said that
it is one of the important element that impact the activities of the company. There is a major role
of these aspects that helps the companies to attain success and growth in the competitive market.
These factors help to focus on maintaining the reliability and also consistency in offering the
services and products in a proper manner within the policies of the company. It will also assist in
boosting the service delivery which will maximize the satisfaction level of the customers (Khelil,
Hussainey and Noubbigh, 2016). The essential results will be related to the analysis of these
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