ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Organizational Behavior and Leadership

Organizational Behavior and Leadership

Organizational Behavior

The behavior of the organizations has always been studied in the field of management. However, it was not until recent times when this issue has become a discipline in itself.

From the time of Hayek, Ford and Fayol, who interpreted the organizations as merely productive environments, to Max Weber, who focused his studies on the development of bureaucracy, we now at a stage where the organization is already observed from many more dimensions and different dimensions of behavior begin to be seen as basic and fundamental to respond to the environment in which we live. The emergence of new technologies, trade liberalization, globalization and social change and consumption, among others, are causing the macro environment is changing so rapidly that it is hardly possible to keep up by companies.

Thus, companies find difficult to fulfill its dual mission, which is no more than respond to the changing environment to meet the needs of different stakeholders while ensuring a degree of internal stability to enable it to survive for many years and at that moment in which the powerful emergence of organizational behavior. Organizations need a new perspective on study and analysis that go far beyond the purely functional and that part of the organization is an open socio-technical system, which means that within it are interrelated individuals, groups and environment of a organized manner to achieve a particular purpose.

Analysis: Perspectives of Organizational Behavior

Technical Perspective: This is what we study is what makes the company, its core business, the products it manufactures, services offered, the assets held, tasks, activities and processes are in place in the organization to develop the business, how to learn new skills and how they are managed. Let's say that's the part that moves the business from the most functional. It is the first reason for which the company exists and that remains. It is what it delivers and how it delivers.

Human perspective: from this perspective, we must know our partners know what their motivations, their perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, the influence of personality in their work, their relationships to them both personally and individually, their informal communication and tacit knowledge. This perspective is critical because it means that the company is a social system, where the different existing groups develop, and even anthropological, because you must also know how it behaves on the individual versus the group.

Cultural perspective: this perspective is ...