Category: Organizational Behavior

  • An Introduction to Organizational Behavior: Chapter Summary

    Table of Contents Work Attitudes Work Behaviors Ethics and National Culture Summary References Work Attitudes A person’s attitude is one of the essential contributors to organizational success. According to Bauer and Erdogan (2020), an attitude is an individual feeling toward a certain aspect of the environment around us. The two particular concepts that are inextricably…

  • Organizational Behavior and Criminal Organizations

    Many criminal justice agencies are trying to reinvent themselves so as to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Doing so often requires that the organizational culture change. What do you see as the impediments to cultural change in criminal justice agencies? No matter how perfect and well-organized criminal justice agencies seem to be, most of them still…

  • Organizational Behavior and Criminal Organizations

    Many criminal justice agencies are trying to reinvent themselves so as to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Doing so often requires that the organizational culture change. What do you see as the impediments to cultural change in criminal justice agencies? No matter how perfect and well-organized criminal justice agencies seem to be, most of them still…

  • Organizational Behavior. Emotion and Personality

    The articles under analysis discuss the question of emotional intelligence and its impact on leadership skills and strategies. The regulation of emotions in work situations is a complex process that uses an ancient neurochemical technology tuned by modern socialization and learning processes. These capacities are then applied in rapidly changing environments that, except for face-to-face…

  • Social Sciences and Organizational Behavior

    The field of organizational behavior (OB) deals with the behavior and impact of the interaction of individuals, groups, and structures within an organization, in order to apply the knowledge to improve the effectiveness of the organization. Effectively an applied science, OB, draws from various social sciences. The predominant subjects, which have enormously contributed to the…

  • Organizational Behavior. Job Design Around Groups

    Job design can be defined as the specification of the contents, methods, and relationships of jobs in order to satisfy technological and organizational requirements as well as the social and personal requirements of the job holder. It aims to satisfy the requirements of the organization for productivity, operational deficiency, and quality of product or service.…

  • Relations Between Organizational Structures and Behavior

    Researching organizational behavior helps employers obtain an insight into covert patterns of their employees’ performance at work. As organizations are in continual exploration of new methods to enhance efficiency, competitiveness, and increase in revenue, the issue focuses attention from researchers in the domain. Organizational structure and communication are the aspects that, possibly, have the most…

  • Organizational Behavior: Term Definition

    This paper discusses the ethical issues in an organization, the individual influences that impact ethical behaviors, and how organizations can influence ethical behavior in employees. Why are ethical issues a major concern in organizations? The approach, communication within the organization, relationship, responsibility, efficiency, job satisfaction, and working effectiveness are considered as organizational behavior. It can…

  • Organizational Behavior: Theory X, Theory Y, and the Hawthorne Studies

    Explain McGregor’s Theory X and Y The approaches to managing organizational behavior are numerous and very diverse, yet most of them can be grouped according to specific criteria and categorized accordingly. McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y, which are expected to explain the rationale behind leadership choices and the effects that they produce on employees’…

  • Chrysler Company’s Organizational Behavior

    Abstract Organizational culture is defined as the behavior of individuals at work, which determines the success of the organization. It entails all the major values that an organization drafts, the mission and vision statements, and the systems. In this paper, the organizational culture of Chrysler will be analyzed in various aspects. Organizational Culture Changing an…