Challenges and Opportunities in Oraganisational Behaviour
Challenges and Opportunities in Oraganisational Behaviour
ORAGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Challenges and opportunities of organizational behavior are massive and
rapidly changing for improving productivity and meeting business goals.
Although the problems with organizations and the solutions over the ages have not
really changed, the emphasis and surrounding environmental context certainly have
changed.
Although the resulting lean and mean organizations offered some short-run benefits
in terms of lowered costs and improved productivity, if they continued to do
business, as usual, they would not be able to meet current or future challenges.
Unless employees and executives are equipped to possess the required skills to adapt
those changes, the targeted goals cannot be achieved in time. These two different
categories of skills – managerial skills and technical skills.
Some of the managerial skills include listening skills, motivating skills, planning and
organizing skills, leading skills, problem-solving skill, decision-making skills etc.
These skills can be enhanced by organizing a series of training and development
programs, career development programs, induction, and socialization etc.
Responding to Globalization
Should the employees of chemical company blow the whistle if they uncover the
discharging its untreated effluents into the river are polluting its water resources?
Do managers give an inflated performance evaluation to an employee they like,
knowing that such an evaluation could save that employee’s job?
The ground rules governing the constituents of good ethical behavior has not been
clearly defined, Differentiating right things from wrong behavior has become more
blurred.
Improving Customer Service
OB can contribute to improving an organizational performance by
showing drat how employees’ attitude and behavior are associated with customer
satisfaction.
In that case, service should be the first production oriented by using technological
opportunities like a computer, the internet etc.
To improve the customer service need to provide sales service and also the after
sales service.