MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR




( Figure 01 - Organizational Behavior, Source : Florida Tec Ad) 

Most organizations want to improve profits and performance and move to the next level. Employees are the most crucial factor in improving the organizational performance and profits targets. Organizations use strategies like employee engagement, employee motivation and managing organizational behaviors to achieve their targets.

What is Managing Organizational Behavior?

It is defined as the combination of actions and attitudes of people in organizations. The field of organizational behaviour helps the leaders or the managers to understand complexity within organizations, human behaviour in organizational settings, how human behaviour interacts with the organization and the organization itself, identify problems, determine the best ways to correct them and establish whether the changes would make a significant difference.

According to an article published by Aurora University in 2017, the growth of Organizational Behavior Management has resulted in three primary speciality areas as below;

Performance Management – This applies to behavioural systems to manage the performance of employees.

System Analysis – This refers to the analysis and modifications of processes in an organization that will help the profit margins. Through this, the organization will analyze how the employees complete the independent tasks and by doing so, create products or services that have a positive impact on the organization.

Behavioral based safety – This refers to analysing and modification of the work environment to reduce injuries and promote safe behaviour than the changing employee behavior to reduce injuries

Management can intervene in managing organizational behavior in two main ways.

1. Antecedent intervention: This is the intervention where management address how to encourage desirable behaviours through positive encouragement such as goal setting, training, task clarification and job aids.

2. Consequence intervention: this is more focused on following up on behaviours and strengthening desirable actions from employees through positive feedback and rewards.

By understanding the organizational behaviour, leaders would be able to;

1.Understand the organizational impacts of individual and group behaviours.

2. build positive relationships with subordinates  

3. predict and control employee behaviour

4. make optimally efficient use of human resources

Steps to implement Organization Behavior in your organization

Define your goals – identify what are the goals of your organization and see whether they are measurable and defined. Its easier to take specific measures if the goals are defined.

Clarify the target behaviours - In this stage, you have to decide what behaviours and results can lead to achieving the goals of your organization. With that, you can track the results necessary to reach your goals.

Create Metrics – Link your organizational goals to measures numbers. Example: - Increase Productivity by 15 percent in a year. Then you can decide how many projects you need to achieve that target of your productivity. Also, these targets can be measured and revisited monthly.

Understand the issues – Ad hoc issues arise at work can affect the daily operation of the work which can ultimately impact in achieving goals. Therefore, you have to address current situation, processes and procedures and average issues rising daily.

Craft a solution - In order to meet the goals of the organization, you have to solve the issues that you have identified and craft solutions for those.

Evaluate metrics - You have to review the metrics you established at the beginning of the process and its development to identify the changes. This data will help you to understand and assist how changes being affect the staff and the organization.

Organizational Behavior Further Explained ;



Conclusion 

Organizational behaviour plays a very important role in achieving the goals of the organization and it is very necessary to understand the behaviour patterns of the employees and organization to craft the necessary methods to address the issues that come up when achieving the targets of the organization. 

References 

Aurora University, What is orgernizational behaviour management, Available at https://online.aurora.edu/organizational-behavior-management/, Accessed on 29 April 2022

Delta Publishing, Understanding and Managing Orgernizational behavior, 2006, Available at http://www.apexcpe.com/publications/471001.pdf, Accessed on 29th April 2022

D. Nadler and M. Tushman, “A Model for Diagnosing Organizational Behavior,” Organizational Dynamics, 1980, p. 35.

J. Stewart Black, David S. Bright, Donald G. Gardner, Eva Hartmann, Laura M. Leduc, James, Joy Leopold, James S. O’Rourke, Jon L. Pierce, Richard M. Steers, Siri Terjesen, Joseph Weiss, "OpenStax", 2019, Organizational Behavior, Available at https://openstax.org/details/books/organizational-behavior, Accessed on 29th April 2022

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  1. Venushka BandaranayakeApril 30, 2022 at 8:01 AM

    organizational behavior analyzes the effect of social and environmental factors that affect the way employees or teams work. The way people interact, communicate, and collaborate is key to an organization’s success. All the best

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