Challenges and Opportunities for Organizational Behaviour

There are lot of challenges and opportunities today for managers to OB concepts which are discussed as below :

Globalization to Respond
Organizations are no longer constrained by national borders, world become global village.

Increased foreign assignment

Transferred to your employers operating division in another country, Once there, youll have to manage workforce, aspiration from employees, and attitudes from employees.

Working with different people

Working with bosses, peers and other employees who were born and raised in different culture, to work effectively with them youve to understand how their culture, geographic and religion have shaped them.

Managing workforce diversity

The people in organization are becoming heterogeneous demographically, whereas globalization focuses on differe nces between people from different countries, mix of people in term s of gender, age, race, and sexual orientation.

Improving Quality & Productivity

World added capacity in response to increase demand. Excess capacity translate in increase competition, is forcing managers to reduce costs and, at the same time, improve the organization quality and productivity

Improving Customer service

OB can contribute to improving an organization performance by showing that how employees attitude and behaviour are associated with customer satisfaction.

Improving people skills

Designing motivating jobs, how to create effective teams, techniques for improving interpersonal skills.

Stimulating Innovation & Change

To maintain flexibility in organization, continually improve its quality and beat their competition in market place. An organizations employees can be major block in change, the challenge to the manager to stimulate their creativity and tolerance for change.

Coping with Temporariness

Survival for the organization, is need to move fast and flexible and innovative in their products. For this, jobs are redesigned, task are done by flexibility, training old employees with new technology, better understandi ng of change, overcome resistance to change, create organizational culture.

Helping Employees to Balance Work-Life Conflicts.

Creating Positive Work Environment

Improving Ethical Behaviour

Manager shouldnt place an order on which subordinate dont agree. Define clearly the right and wrong conduct. Fair policy and appropriate system in order to increase confidence and trust over organization.

Summary and Implications for Managers :

Managers need to develop their

interpersonal, or people, skills to be effective in their jobs.

OB is a field of study that investigates

the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behaviour within an organization.
OB focuses on improving productivity,

employee job satisfaction, and reducing absenteeism and turnover.

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Made By : Nitish
Khurana

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