Organizational Behavior

As organizations are steadily growing we see a study arising called n organizational behavior. With the many organizations that we have and the large amount of employees we have several different needs that have to be met in order to maintain employees. What works for one organization and its employees may not work for another organization. We also have to be attentive to the needs of the individual employees within an organization. How do we know what those needs are and how do we know how to meet them? We do this with the study of organizational behavior.

Organizational behavior studies people. In studying people it looks at heir lifestyles and what types of goals they have for themselves and their families. It looks at how they want to advance within their current employment. Most importantly it looks at how the organization is fitting the needs of its employees. It looks at the diversity in the work place, the ethnical behavior, the work life balanced with home life, and the changing technology. The study of the people and the organization are carefully analyzed in order to determine what works for the individual employee environment and for the organization.

Organizational behavior also looks at the clientele base and how the companies are fitting their needs. It reviews what the client wants, what the company is proving, the way the company is providing it and the company is providing it and then makes suggestions as to how the company can make changes to better serve its clientele.

When we study the behavior we must also look at the culture of the organization. The culture is described as the make up of the organization. The values and standards set forth by the organization that are up held, supported, and exhibited by all its employees. At the hospital where I worked we had what was called our core values. We each understood that these values made the hospital what it was and that they needed to be upheld in order for the hospital to maintain its reputation.

Although the hospital its set of values each individual floor and department had it’s own values.

Each profession within the hospital had its own set of values. Any outsiders such as doctors or temporary personnel had their own set of values. As you look at each set of values you can see that the individual values relate to, coincide, or elaborate on the values set forth by the hospital.

Organizations in today’s world have to be diverse. Organizations must be able to handle the diversity of their employees as well as their clientele. Being diverse is not limited to race, but it includes gender, beliefs, age, and sexual orientation. An organization must stress to its employees that they must respect a diverse work environment and use each other’s good qualities in order to help the organization have an excellent performance record. With the respect for diversity everyone will feel excepted and a part of the organizations development.

Organizational effectiveness is how well an organization meets the needs of its employees and its customer. For an organization to be effective it must analyze what the employee and customer expect in terms of long-term as well as short term goals. The organization must not only learn what is wanted but must take what they learn and put it to work for the organization. This is how the organization becomes efficient. The company must combine what it learns and develop a plan that meets everyone’s needs and then take that plan put it work and continue to improve upon this plan in order to be efficient.

An organization must have the opportunity for organizational learning. There are two types of organizational learning. Adaptive learning can be described as learning