Organizational Behaviour Report: Motivation, Whistleblowing Analysis

This report delves into the realm of organizational behaviour, examining two key articles. The first article explores the history, advancements, and future prospects of motivation within organizations, highlighting frameworks for understanding individual, social, and contextual influences. It reviews foundational principles and various motivational approaches, including need-based theories like Maslow's and Alderfer's, as well as intrinsic motivation and social environment approaches. The second article introduces 'Theory A' as a contemporary approach to managing people for performance, contrasting it with traditional theories like X, Y, and Z. It emphasizes the importance of accountability, motivation, assistance, and socialization in fostering employee efficiency and organizational success. The report also analyzes the concept of whistleblowing within an organization, discussing potential motivations, the impact of frivolous lawsuits, ethical considerations, and the advantages and disadvantages of reporting illegal activities to both the company and external authorities. The report provides valuable insights into employee behavior and management strategies.

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Article 1: Motivation in organizational behaviour: History, advances and prospects
1. The motivation as the organizational behaviour is concerned with the energetic forces
which originate within and beyond a person’s which influences the direction,
initiation, concentration and duration of the action.
2. The motivation in the organizations served as umbrella for the goal selection and
decision making process. The Meta framework has been procreated in the article to
precise measurement and understanding of a person, social and contextual influences
and the behavioural intentions.
3. The major advances in the motivation concerning work and organizational behaviour
has been reviewed. The foundation principles in motivation as a part of review have
been analysed. The organizing theory has been also used viewed along with the
scientific efforts in the motivational psychology.
4. The need approaches have been used to focus on organizing several motives which
characterize human striving and brings several needs. Both of these issues were
addressed by the Maslow’s need hierarchy theory. The modified theory was also
propounded to address the criticism faced in the Maslow model. This theory is
known as Alderfer’s.
5. The approaches used for the motivation in the mid twentieth century are intrinsic
motivation, goal construal theories and why approaches. The social environment
approaches contributing to the individual environment are job design, equity
approaches, ‘social influences of teams and leaders’ and ‘where and when’
approaches.
6. The advantage of understanding motivation in the organizational behaviour helps in
dealing with the human behaviour in the organizational environment. Understanding
organizational behaviour can assist to the managers and executives to understand
their co-workers and channelize skills to attain goals of the organization. the
motivation as a part of organizational behaviour leads to the organizational
development which in turn creates team spirit. The employees also got motivated to
attain organizational goals.
Reference
Kanfer, R., & Chen, G. (2016). Motivation in organizational behavior: History, advances and
prospects. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 136, 6-19.

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Article 2: Organizational behaviour in 21st century–'Theory A' for managing people for
performance
1. Theory X, Y and Z in the organizational behaviour are associated to the human
motivation and management. Theory X and Y were propounded by the Douglas
McGregor in the late 1960s. These are the managerial approach and focuses on the
‘total control’. Theory Z is also identified as ‘Japanese management’. This theory
focuses on enhancing employee loyalty both on and off the job. This article has
focused on a new theory, theory of accountability also known as “Theory A”.
2. The organizational behaviour is a study of the organization’s performance based on
the behaviour of the individuals and groups. The organization behaviour is utilised in
order to generate more efficient business in the changing environment.
3. People are considered the most significant people in the organization. Among all the
resources, man, material, machine and money, man is considered more difficult to
manage.
4. The leading in relation to managing man of the organization are Maslow’s theory of
need hierarchy. It is based on the needs of the humans and its prioritization. This
theory is based on the human nature and the external factors which influence to their
behaviour. On the other side, incentive theory believes that action follows reward.
The behaviour is created and decided through the timely rewards. The behaviour
becomes predictable and is easy to manage through the rewards.
5. Theory A focuses on the motivation, assistance and socialization. Several change take
place in the external environment which creates new changes in the employees
affecting their psychological and social outlook.
6. Theory A turns around the accountability which helps employees in taking
accountabilities for the work assigned to them. This theory is significant for the
employees as they are likely to set targets, responsibilities, workings strategy,
resource allocation, monitoring and guiding. They can even set performance
measurement metric. The employees can even become more efficient as their
organizational performance is expected to enhance on the basis of the accountability
assigned to them. The responsibility is considered nothing but efficiency in delivering
targets at the prescribed range and time.

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Refrerence
Aithal, P. S., & Kumar, P. M. (2016). Organizational behaviour in 21st century–'Theory A'for
managing people for performance. IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-
JBM), 18(7), 126-134.