Organizational Behavior Trends

Organizational Behavior Trends

Outline:

1. Definition of OB and related terminologies.

2. Role of decision making in OB environments.

3. Conflicts involved in decision making processes in organizations.

4. Rifts between managerial level staff and operations level workforce.

5. Stakeholders in decision making in a corporate hierarchy.

6. Self-inflicted ethical dilemmas and differences, causes for it.

7. Values and goals affecting causing ethical dilemmas in OB

8. Globalization and its strategic alliances.

9. Impact of technological advancements in organizational environments.

10. Techno stress and other stress factors in organizational environments.

11. Survey results of organizational stress and prevalence.

12. Pros and cons of stress factors.

13. Resources

Abstract:

This paper will provide a basic description and evaluation of the trends in Organizational Behavior (OB). It then goes on to expound on the influence of ethical behavior on decision making in an organization and its prevalence in modern day corporate environment. It also explores the ethical area of Organizational Behavior and how it can cause friction in the organization stemming from personal and career oriented causes. The final parts of this thesis speak about work stress and technological aspects of OB.

Firstly one must know what OB is. It's an interdisciplinary field of study and practice, investigating the impact of individuals, groups, structure and environment on behavior within organizations. The primary concern of OB is with people, what they do and how their behavior affects individual, group and organizational performance.

Life is full of decisions. Each day, people are faced with different problems requiring answers and solutions. Decision making is the process of defining problems and choosing a course of action from among alternatives. Decision making at best is a challenge for employees in general and managers in particular. For example, many decisions management faces turn out to be ethical decisions or have ethical implications or consequences. Once we leave the realm of relatively ethical-free decisions (such as which production method to use for a particular product), decisions quickly become complex, and many carry with them an ethical dimension.

Decision making in itself is not a simple process and is even more complicated when one thinks about the character and nature of decision making that includes ethical dimensions. It would be nice if decision making was indeed a simple process and that a set of ethical principles was readily available for employees to "plug in" and walk away from, with a decision to be forthcoming. However, in reality that is not, nor will it ever be, the case when it comes to ethics and decision making. It is safe to say that decision