Organizational Behavior And Terminology Concepts

Organizational Behavior and Terminology Concepts

In my opinion in today's competitive environment, the successes of any organization with any kind of management or leadership structure still depend on its behavior. In fact, organizational behavior is the behavior of its people, not the behavior of itself. In the same token, understanding the principal of organizational behavior is not only important for everyone but also for the management teams and leadership as well. Organizational Behavior is defined in our text as, "As we have already emphasized, OB is focused on organizations and what happens inside them. This is important, because organizations are a key part of modern society." (Hitt and Miller, 2006, p.16) in addition, the complicity of today's aggressive market, organizations must study, understand, learn and apply the varied behaviors if they don't want to be buried by their competitors. As result, this paper will discuss and define some of the more common key concepts and terminology such as cultures, diversity, communication and business ethics in corporate America.

To begin with, "To arrive at a useful and meaningful definition of organizational behavior, let's first look at what an organization is. An organization is a collection of people who work together to achieve a wide variety of goals. Individual goals are what people are trying to accomplish for themselves--earning a lot of money, helping promote a worthy cause, achieving certain levels of power and prestige, enjoying a satisfying work experience, and so on." (George and Jones, 2005, p.3) In addition, as we all know in today's high demands business world, in order to be successful, organizations must have a good understanding of how their organization behaves. This could be the behavior of employees within the organization or organization by itself. In any case those behaviors will determine the success or failure of that organization. Therefore, by studying this behavior, employees as well as employers will have a better perspective about the organization to improve their overall performance. For example, the organizational behavior of an employee within the organization can be measured through feedback. As we all know feedback is one of communication types among staff and the managers. Study shows that if feedbacks regarding the staff performance delivered by managers rather than by the staff themselves it will be more effective to the whole performance of the organization. As a result, this method of behavior will have more influence on individual's behavior within an organization too. As part of organizational behavior, managers and leaders must make a concerted effort to provide individuals with the appropriate feedback. Therefore, like the individuals behavior the management organizational behavior will be the most definitely a contributing factor to organizational success.

Just in the same way, organizational culture is also has an important role in the success of an organization. These days everyone knows the concept of this culture. "Organizational culture is the set of shared values, beliefs, and norms that influence the way employees think, feel, and behave toward each other and toward people outside the organization." (George and Jones, 2005, p.5) It is a culture which employees work together, think together and act together to reach their ultimate goals which would be the success of the organization. Basically Organizational culture is the interaction of the employees in the workplace with each other. Clearly, all together will represents the personality of the organization such as values, beliefs and so fourth. For instance, it will be easy to tell the culture an organization just by looking at the way they talk, walk, dress or even their office furniture arrangement. Assuredly, this culture like other key concepts and terminology has an important role in successes or failure of an organization.

In addition, nobody denies that in the corporate America the diversity in workplace is also one of ingredients of success formula. "Diversity results from differences in age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and capabilities or disabilities." (George and Jones, 2005, p.15) In my opinion, diversity in a corporate culture is the key for innovation, change, product and decision-making quality. It can help organization to identify the areas of opportunities for improvements. Also it calls for management and leadership of organization to celebrate the differences such as races, religious, customs, colors, life styles and gender for the success of their organization in all areas of operation rather than criticizing it. Managing diversity it is not an easy task for corporate management to handle. Management should understand and appreciate that cultural and background, religious and other differences which can shape their organization behavior. However, still some organizations are concern about the workplace diversity in order to build their strengths. But until all employees and management of the organization doesn't realize that they can use diversity as tool for change for a better they will not succeed.

Unquestionably, communication is also as important as the other key concepts in an organization. Unfortunately, most of the people they think communication it is just when they turn their radio on or read newspaper or watch TV. But there is more into it. Good managers and good leaders must realize that a good communication will be a soiled bridge between them and their staff. Therefore, their ability to communicate effectively with their subordinators will determine their future success. Effective communication it is a necessity for them to accomplish their work. In short, we all know the lack of a good communication channel among the people in an organization eventually will make them fail.

Admittedly in today's business world, the necessity of Ethics in organizations is undeniable. Organizational ethics are not only important in board rooms and management meetings but also among the people of the organization. Organizational ethics is representing the way an organization acts in its society. Organizations must understand