ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior

Introduction

Leadership style is one of the most important factors that play a pivotal role in the behavior demonstrated by the subordinates and the organization as a whole. In the present environment of competition, there are various challenges faced by the management related to diverse workforce, social responsibility, differing opinions over ethics and procedures to attain the set organizational objectives time and again among disparate other organizational aspects. Nowadays, a successful and effective management is not only required to be customer focused and centered but it also has to take care of their employees and needs to try and satisfy their wants so as to foster positive organizational behavior, that is considered as one of the most important factors associated with organizational performance. The CEO of Azul Airlines; Neeleman, indicates that it is better to stop thinking about the shareholders in favor of the employees, so as to concentrate and think about the employees thereby appealing to their needs and demands more effectively. This will trigger the formation of an effective structure in that employees when being taken care of would focus on customers and these customers in turn will look after the shareholders in return, appealing to their interests (CNN money, 2013). This requires right balance between organizational goals and employees' needs fulfillment and in order to attain this right balance, every business should design and position their human resource management (HRM) rightly. Human resource management is primarily a management strategy that is designed around the human capital of an organization to tap their effectiveness, involving practices and decisions that are directly associated with employees influence them directly (Mullins, 2007). The key steps involved in HRM are employee planning, recruitment and selection of the individuals, training and development and maintaining a relationship with employees (Pettinger, 2007).

Discussion

With the advent of globalization, managers are more inclined towards hiring and use of multicultural employee base, as it is important to survive in today's competitive world. This managerial style that is aligned with today's diversity will be assessed in terms of organization behavior. The trend of introducing teams to workplace has thus evolved introducing a major shift from working individually to working in ethnically diverse and multicultural teams. Also, multicultural teams are a result of companies having increasing global work environments at a progressive rate. The basic team dynamic is that employees share information, accept each other's differences, cooperate with each other and work towards attaining the group goals and objectives to achieve effective organizational productivity and performance. This has changed managerial styles as dealing with multicultural teams became one of the most important aspects of managing a thriving firm on the basis of market share as well as employee retention in the long run. Multicultural teams bring diversity in terms of employees with different cultural backgrounds and perspectives on the world.

Factors influencing individual and hence organizational behavior

Structure of the management and the organization in a whole along with its culture are the central factors that guide and influence individual employees ...