Week 1 Discussion and Reflection: Organizational Behavior, BADM 532

This discussion post, written for BADM 532 at the University of the Cumberlands, reflects on the core principles of organizational behavior. It defines organizational behavior as the study of how individuals, groups, and structures impact behavior within organizations. The post explores the importance of understanding organizational behavior for effective management, including topics like leadership, group dynamics, and employee motivation. The author discusses various leadership theories and OB models, emphasizing the interplay of inputs, processes, and outputs at individual and group levels. Additionally, the post addresses a scenario involving employee discipline, justifying a manager's decision to discipline an employee for a potentially damaging social media post. The post references Robbins & Judge's "Organizational Behavior" to support its arguments.

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Week 1: Discussion & Reflection
Aakansha Awasthi
The University of the Cumberland's
BADM 532 - Organizational Behavior
Johnny Chavez
May 5th, 2021

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Reflection
An organization is characterized as a group of people who collaborate to achieve a variety of
objectives. The behaviors and attitudes of people in organizations are referred to as
organizational behavior. The body of information resulting from these behaviors and attitudes is
referred to as organizational behavior (OB). It will assist managers in comprehending the
dynamics of their organizations, identify challenges, determine the right solutions, and determine
if the changes will make a meaningful difference. Organization Behavior is a field of study that
tries to find the impact of individuals, groups, and structures on the organization to make such an
effect more practical. In short, the discipline studies three determinants of an organization's
behavior, namely, individuals, groups, and structures. With the gained knowledge, it tries to
make organizations more effectively operating (Robbins & Judge, 2018).
Focal points of organizational behavior are the people (individuals), groups, and
structures in the organization. An OB model will consist of input, process, and output factors in
all these focal points. For example, inputs to the individual level are diversity, personality,
values. Processes involved at the personal level are motivation, perceptions, decision-making,
etc. Outputs from the individual level that affects the organization are attitude, citizenship
behaviors, etc. Similarly, for the group level, inputs are group structure, group behavior, team
responsibilities, processes are communications, leadership, and the outputs are group cohesion
and functioning (Robbins & Judge, 2018).
Leadership comes in the process part of the group behavior, and this translates into the
output of the group behaviors, which are group cohesion and functioning. In simple terms,
leadership can influence the other group members to convert the input to the outputs of group

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behavior. In terms of OB, leadership is defined in Trait theories, Behavioral theories, and
Contingency theories. Other theories of leadership are path-goal theory, LMX theory, etc
(Robbins & Judge, 2018).
Organizational behavior is a study of human behavior in an organization, and an
organization is a group of peoples with different traits, knowledge, belief, religions, culture, etc.
Finding the interaction of nature while working in an organization develops organizational
behaviors. Organizational behaviors include Individuals in an organization, Work for groups.
And How an organization is behaving (Robbins & Judge, 2018).
The importance of organizational behaviors is as follow-
 To understand the nature of the organization.
 Training and development.
 Implementation of change.
 Developing a common culture in an organization.
 Effective utilization of human resources.
 Helpful in predicting and controlling the human behaviors
 Helpful in industrial and labor relations.
 Helpful in motivating the employees.
Objectives for implementation of organizational behaviors in an organization-
 Job satisfaction.
 Finding the right people.

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 Organization cultures.
 Leadership and conflicts resolution.
 Understanding the employees.
 Developing a mind on how to develop good leaders.
 Developing a good team.
 High level of productivity.
Question
Yes, I would discipline the employee because such posts can embarrass the organization in
public. Posting a need for $500 could indicate that the company is not paying the financial
advisor enough to cover his basic needs, such as rent. This may harm the firm's ability to recruit
applicants for the role of the financial advisor. This will paint a picture of the company as a low-
paying employer and imply that working as a financial advisor is not worth it. Customers and
competitors may mock the company because of this tweet. This will also provide an image of the
company's financial consultants who cannot manage their finances. This tweet will damage the
company's interest in several ways in general. So, I am going to sanction that behavior as a
manager.
Reference:
Robbins, S., & Judge, T. (2018). Organizational Behavior (What’s New in Management) (18th
ed.). Pearson.