Contemporary

Organizational Behaviour

Dodi Irawanto

OB Basic Model
Individual Level
Learning
Values & Attitudes
Personality
Motivation

Group Level
Decision-making
Communication
Leadership
Political behavior
Conflict

Organization Level
Organizational structure
Work design
Human Resource Mgmt
Organizational culture

Organizational effectiveness
Individual
Job satisfaction
Individual performance
Group
Group cohesiveness
Group performance
Organization
Organizational performance
Organizational effectiveness

Contemporary Insight
The complex nature of technology on
todays world of work
Why it may be time for organizations to
slow down the pace of change
How visionary leaders can do more harm
than good
Why political savvy may be more important
today than ever before
How to interpret the post-modern business

Political Savvy???OB
Concerns
Understands the process of how decisions are made
Identifies the key decision-makers and the people who influence
them
Identifies ways to increase visibility and influence by
participation in formal and informal activities
Understands the interests, motivations, and agendas of others
Promotes the interests of other key decision makers and
influencers in order to obtain support for one's own agenda
Understands the roles people play in an organization and uses
that understanding to achieve objectives
Establishes alliances with people of power and influence in order
to influence decisions and outcomes
Accurately anticipates changes in the political climate and plans
and executes strategy and tactics based on that anticipation

Challanges
New HRM is old hat are we simply repackaging
century-old practices today?
Networking, not working the problems of coordination and communication in the virtual world
You talk, Ill try not to listen why todays
employees pay little attention to management
communication
Cultures moving closer apart to what extent is
divergence in national values, attitudes and beliefs
counteracting globalization and the dominance of
English as the international business language?

(1) Technology
Many studies of manufacturing technology suggest that
sophisticated, flexible, expensive equipment needs
sophisticated, flexible, expensive people to operate it
effectively. Recent research shows that while
computerization has reduced the labour content of
industrial processes, it has triggered a trend away from
low-wage blue-collar work towards higher-paid occupations
Technology has undoubtedly changed the nature of work
The potential to provide a service remotely has led to an
explosion of teleworking home-based, nomadic or
remote workers who carry out business away from one
central office.
Call centres have expanded and mean that organizations
can manage costs through providing centralized services
in locations where property and wage costs are low, and

(2) Change

Key driver
Intensified competition and stockmarket turbulence in the
private sector, consumerism and government pressures in
the public sector;
The pace of technological innovation;
Increased knowledge-intensity, as organization design
affects information flows.

With major change expensive new information systems and

complex new structures attract most attention, while people
are forgotten. When asked about the aims of their
reorganizations, managers emphasized customers, market
share and internal efficiency, and ranked improving
employee morale and retention lowest

(3) Leadership
This is a subject with many paradoxes. We hear the
complaint that we need more leadership. However, the
organizational hierarchy and formal authority that
underpin leadership positions are increasingly being
challenged. We tend to equate leadership with positions
of power, influence and status
Organizations would be better without leaders anyway.
Charismatic, visionary leaders may do more damage
than good as they seek to encourage ever greater
organizational transformation to achieve their vision.
Sustainable change may actually result better from
middle managers

(4) Power and Politics

Power can be possessed by individuals, resulting from their

personality and position within the organisation; it can exist in
terms of the relationship between individuals, resulting from
the beliefs that individuals hold about one another; and it can
be woven into the fabric of the organization, where it is the
result of the expectations and beliefs created through the
structures, policies and procedures of that organization.
bio power in these social media environment is getting its
power. Bio-power is targeted at society in general, is achieved
through talk, writing, debate and discussion, and controls us
through getting us to consider what is normal. At the level of
the organization, once employees do this, they become selfdisciplining and no longer require management to keep them
under control.
It seems, however, that in a business world where
organizational change is increasingly frequent and overarching,
and job security is reducing, todays business managers should