Organizational Behavior: Summaries and Workplace Strategies

This report delves into various facets of organizational behavior, starting with the concept of organizational culture, emphasizing its impact on values, beliefs, and standards. It then explores models of planned organizational change, such as Lewin's and ADKAR models, and their practical application in managing change within organizations. The report also addresses work stress, outlining methods for its effective management. Furthermore, it identifies challenges faced by modern managers, including uncertainty, employee wellbeing, and skill gaps, and provides strategies to overcome them. Finally, the report examines strategies for maintaining diversity within organizations, highlighting the importance of management involvement, organizational structure adaptation, and communication. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of these factors in achieving organizational goals and objectives.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.................................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Organizational Behavior refers to a detailed study of the different types of people who are
working within a particular organization which helps in ensuring that the relevant conclusions
and recommendations can be derived quite effectively and efficiently in the right manner. In this
report, a detailed focus will be made on the summarization of various types of articles so that a
better understanding can be developed.
MAIN BODY
Topic 1- Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture refers to “how things are done around here” and thus this creates
an impact on the core values, underlying beliefs, processes and standards which thrive in an
organization. Thus, in this way it becomes quite important that the organizations are able to
provide a proper consideration to it which will be quite helpful in ensuring that they are able to
manage their particular needs and requirements and can attain the various types of goals and
objectives in a proper manner (WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE? TYPES OF
CULTURE MODELS FOR CREATING A WINNING COMPANY, 2021).
It is quite important that a positive organizational culture is maintained within an
organization so that it is able to ensure that the right level of motivation is provided to the
employees of the firm which will help them a lot in ensuring an attainment of the future goals
and objectives in a right way quite effectively and efficiently.
Therefore, it is very crucial that the organizations are able to ensure that they can
maintain a right organizational culture which will be quite helpful for them to maintain the
required level of positivity within their work culture which will help in enhancing the overall
level of efficiency and effectiveness of the employees.
Thus, it is very important for the managers of the organizations that they are able to make
sure that they can help in the development of a positive culture within the organization which
will be highly helpful in attaining the relevant goals and objectives.
Topic 2- Models of planned organizational change
There are various types of models of planned organizational change. It is quite important
that the appropriate consideration is given to the implementation of such type of change which
will be quite helpful in ensuring that such type of change can be properly managed within the
organization in a right manner (7 Fundamental Change Management Models, 2021). The various
types of models of planned organizational change are explained as follows-

 Lewin’s change management model- It is a model in which different steps are taken in
order to ensure that the proper management of the change can be carried out within the
organizations and the change is implemented in the right manner.
 ADKAR model- It is a people-centered approach which helps in ensuring that the change
is facilitated at an individual level. This can therefore ensure that the use of this approach
can be made and thus the implementation of the change can be carried out quite properly.
 Kotter’s 8-step change model- It is a model through which the use of employee’s
experience is made to reduce resistance and accept change.
 Kubler-Ross change curve- It is a strategy which is used to explain the way in which
people process change using the 5 stages of grief.
 McKinsey 7s model- It is a model which identifies the various elements in an
organization so that the organization is able to improve them in the right manner and thus
this will help in the attainment of the particular goals and objectives.
 PDCA- It is a change management process through which the focus is made on bringing
continuous improvement.
 Bridges Transition Model- It is a model which focuses on ensuring that the
management of the people’s experience transitioning to change can be made which can
be quite helpful in the implementation of change.
Topic 3- Work Stress and its management-
Work Stress refers to the pressure which is felt by people when they are doing work at
their workplace. Therefore, it is quite important that its management is done properly so that it
can be reduced and thus this can be quite helpful in ensuring that the management of the stress
can be done in a right way and therefore the wide range of goals and objectives can be attained
effectively and efficiently (9 Simple Ways to Deal With Stress at Work, 2020).
For the management of Work Stress there are a lot of methods and techniques which can
be used. Therefore, it becomes quite important that he focus can be put on the use of such
methods and techniques which can help a lot in ensuring that the reduction in such type of stress
can be carried out. Therefore the use of following methods is recommended for this purpose-
 Starting the day in a right manner
 Being clear on the requirements
 Staying away from the conflicts
 Staying organized
 Being comfortable
 Forgetting multitasking
 Walking at Lunch
 Keeping perfectionism in check
 Listening to Music on the Drive to Home

Topic 4- Challenges being faced by the Managers today
The Managers are facing a wide variety of challenges nowadays and this is creating a
particular level of impact on them (THE TOP 15 CHALLENGES FACING TODAY’S
MANAGERS (AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM). 2021). The challenges which are being
faced by them are as follows-
 Uncertainty
 Employee Wellbeing
 Checking the productivity
 Development of Positive Organizational Culture
 Recruitment and Onboarding of the right employees
 Diversity & Inclusion
 Communication
 Regulation & Compliance
 Technology & Digitialisation
 Skill Gap
 Turnover of Staff
 Innovation
 Breaking Down Silos
 Knowledge Loss & Brain Drain
 Finding the Holy Grail: Engagement
Topic 5- Strategies of maintaining diversity
There are different strategies which can be used for the purpose of maintaining diversity
within the organizations. It is very important to create a proper plan so that the implementation
of the strategies can be done in the right manner (How to best implement diversity strategies in
the workplace). The ways in which these strategies can be implemented are as follows-
 Involvement of management team- It is crucial that the involvement of the management
team can be carried out in a proper manner which will be quite helpful to make sure that
the strategies are implemented appropriately.
 Adapting the organizational structure- It is also crucial that the adaptation of the
organizational structure can be done which will be helpful in ensuring that the strategies
related with diversity can be implemented.
 Communication- The use of appropriate channels of communication is quite essential so
that the communication about the implementation of the strategies can be carried out.
 Creation of a formal project plan- It is quite essential that the creation of a formal
project plan can be done within the organizations which will help a lot in implementing it
in a proper manner.

 Changing HR initiatives- It is crucial that the change in HR initiatives can be done
which will help a lot in bringing an overall change in the HR policies so that the
attainment of the overall goals and objectives can be done effectively and efficiently.
Thus, in this way the implementation of the strategies which are related with diversity can be
done which can be quite helpful for the different types of organizations. This will thus be
quite useful in ensuring that the attainment of the overall goals and objectives can be done
properly.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that Organization Behavior refers to the way
in which the interactions between people within an organization takes place. It is quite important
that the managers are able to pay appropriate attention towards it which will help them a lot in
ensuring that a positive organizational culture can be maintained which will lead towards the
attainment of the goals and objectives in the future.

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