Management Functions & Behavior

Assignment A
8.

How can the field of OB contribute to the effective functioning of organizations and

the well being of the individual?

Ans
Organizational behavior is an academic discipline concerned with describing, understanding,
predicting, and controlling human behavior in an organizational environment. The field is
particularly concerned with group dynamics, how individuals relate to and participate in groups,
how leadership is exercised, how organizations function, and how change is effected in
organizational settings. When organizational behavior theory is directed specifically at ways in
which management can control an organization, it is sometimes known as organizational
behavior management, or OBM.
An organization is as good as its working group. An organization needs to grow continuously
therefore, there is a need to keep its people rising through following procedures they are:

1. Continuous Learning The continuous learning in individuals works substantially in the

growth of the individuals. There are many ways of learning that helps individuals to grow.
Learning can be termed as any permanent change in behavior or behavior potential that results
from experience. There is need to promote functional behavior among individuals for effective
functioning of organizations, and discourages behavior that is unfavorable to the organisations.
There are different methods of learning and various means through which learning can be
converted into desirable behavior in the individuals.
2. Creating Right Perception: There is need to create right perception among individuals.
Perception can be termed as process through which we select, organize and interpret inputs that
are supplied to us by our sensory receptors. There are five senses in humans (eyes through sight,
ears through audition, nose through smell, mouth or tongue through taste, and skin through

touch) and these senses continuously gathers information from the surroundings. It is the
perception that gives meaning to the various set of informations that are gathered through these
senses. The study of OB helps in creating right perception that is prime requirement for the
efficiently working with people.
3. Building Positive Attitudes and Values: The building of positive attitude and values plays
significant role in the growth of individuals. Attitude can be defined as long-lasting evaluation
that represents an individual like or dislike for an item, group, or issues. Positive attitudes form
an important element in building effective relationships. Values are the fundamental ideas that a
definite form of way of survival is individual or social and is preferable to an opposite or adverse
form of performing the work. Values are the base of attitudes and behaviour, therefore it is
important to discover values in OB.
4. Having Personality and Emotions Compatible at Work Place: Personality is persons unique
and relatively constant model of behaviour, thoughts, and feelings. There is requirement in
organisations to generate a right grouping of person and job, in order to utilize full potential of
an individual. According to the provisions of the work, qualities can be also developed.
Emotions are reactions which are the outcome of subjective cognitive states, physiological
reactions, and expressive behaviors. Cognition is the mental behavior related to the thought,
knowledge, and memory. Proper understanding of emotions helps an individual for selfdevelopment.
5. Maintaining Stress-free Individuals and Environment: Stress is a self-motivated condition in
which an individual is to deal with an opportunity, constraint, or demand related to what he or
she needs and for which the result is supposed to be both doubtful and significant. With rising
competition and survival, and quality becoming higher and difficult to match, stress is the
administrative anxiety of modern era.
6. Keeping Individuals and Teams Motivated and providing Job Satisfaction: Motivation can be
explained as the most important indescribable source of the organization. Motivation is an
indirect in-house procedure that activates, guides, and maintains behavior over time. Job

satisfaction is a universal approach towards ones job. It also depends on the segregation
between the amount of rewards workers receive and the amount they believe they should be
given.

Organisations as well as individuals do not exist in isolation. There is constant fluctuation of

environmental impact on organisation that helps in stimulating behavior pattern within the
organisation. It is important for organisation to muster flexibility for its long-term existence. The
boundaries of organisations are becoming more transparent rather more fragile. Organisations are
required to focus on many emerging issues so as to integrate it well with the environmental
changes. Some of these are as follows:

Continuous improvement of people and process.

Integrating human factor with grand objectives of the organisation.
More emphasis on quality of products, services, and process.
Restructuring to suit requirements of service organisations, task force teams, as well as, in case
of rightsizing and acquisition and merger.
Managing diversity.
Product innovation.
Managing creativity and innovations.
Cross-cultural management.
Managing multinationals.