What is organizational behavior?

FOPER II
Forest enterprise management Faculty of forestry, Belgrade

Stojanovska Makedonka Faculty of Forestry, Skopje 9.05-14.05.2011

ROADMAP
Defining organizational behavior Today`s challenges in the workplace OB: Making sense of behavior in the organizations Levels of organizational behavior

Questions for consideration

What is organizational behavior? What challenges do managers and employees face in the workplace of the 21st century? How will knowledge of organizational behavior make a difference for you?

Defining OB
OB filed of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on behavior within organization Behavior refers on: -what people do in the organization -what are their attitudes -how they perform cast

OB is usually applied to

absenteeism

employment turnover

productivity

working in groups

human performance

job satisfaction

What is organization?
Organization process-related: an entity is being (re-)organized (organization as task or action). Organization functional: organization as a function of how entities like businesses or state authorities are used (organization as a permanent structure). Organization institutional: an entity is an organization (organization as an actual purposeful structure within a social context) Coordinated social unit composed of a group people that function on a continuous basis to achieve a common goal or a set of goals

Examples: schools, police department, local/national government agencies are they organizations?

OB is for everyone
It is natural to think that the study of OB is for managers/leaders Why? They often set the agenda for everyone Informal leadership Does managers ask the employees to be proactive Do they listen their ideas, even share decisionmaking processes

OB is for everyone
Entrepreneurs/individuals may nor act as managers but they interact with other individuals or organizations OB in the street OB examines individuals, groups, entire organization because each category contributes to the challenges of the workplace

Workplace today
Differences between today`s workplace and two decades ago???

Challenges facing workplace

Organizational level -productivity -developing effective employees -global competition -managing in the global village Group level -working with others -workforce diversity workplace

Individual level -job satisfaction -empowerment -behaving ethically

Individual level-job satisfaction

-satisfied employee is more productive -managers should make employees happy and satisfied -managing people has changed even over past 10 years. Expectations for job satisfaction has grown. The main challenge is to ensure an environment to help meet expectations Robert Gemmel

Individual level-empowerment
Are the managers asked to share the responsibilities also??? Empowerment means managers are putting employees in charge what they do Nowadays managers are referred to as coaches, advisers, sponsors or facilitators rather then bosses Managers-control level and employees responsibility for their work and make appropriate decisions Decision-making operational level

Individual level-behaving ethically

Ethics is the study of moral values or principles that guide our behavior and inform us weather actions are wrong or right. Ethical principles help us to do the right thing Starts at individual level and it concerns both: individual and organizational dilemmas

Group level working with others

Success in job involves developing good interpersonal or people skills Interpersonal skills are: communication, thinking, learning and working with others, positive attitudes and behaviors and ability to take responsibility for one`s action Interpersonal skills do not come easy to all people Failure of managers usually is connected to lack of interpersonal skills

Group level workforce diversity

Workforce diversity addresses on differences among people within the same country, while globalization is focused on differences among people from different countries Organizations are becoming more heterogeneous; variety of different people Challenge for organization is to accommodate diverse groups of people by addressing their different lifestyles, family needs and work styles

Organizational level-productivity
When organization/group is productive?
Employee labor
inputs

outputs

Matherials

finished goods or services

Effective + efficient = productive

Organizational level-developing effective employees

Absenteeism Turnover Organizational citizenship

Organizational level-competition from the global environment

New technologies requires new skills, knowledge

Organizational level-managing and working in a global village

World is global village. Why? People need to learn working with people from different cultures Managing people well and understanding the interpersonal dynamics of the work place are not the issues within one country

Thank you for your attention!