Organizational Behavior Unit 1 Discussion

Organizational Behavior

Unit 1 DB

Two extremely successful locations of FMC's Corporation, Green River, Wyoming and Aberdeen, South Dakota. Both locations success has grown through the years in very different ways of operating. In looking into the future we can't help but ask ourselves what major challenges of organizational behavior and management might we face within FMC's Corporation?

"Organizational commitment is the extent of an individual's commitment to an organization." (Wikipedia, 2006) Three major organizational commitments are: Affective Commitment, Continuance commitment and Normative commitment. Affective commitment is when an individual is very happy with the company and agrees strongly with the goals of the organization. Continuance commitment is when an individual feels that he or she as put everything they have into the organization and feels that they should stay apart of the company. And last but not least normative commitment is when an individual feels that they should stay with the organization because he or she feels obligated to that company for some reason. (Wikipedia, 2006)

"Job satisfaction is the collection of feelings and beliefs that people have about their current jobs." (Understanding & Managing Organizational Behavior, 2005, p.75)

A few major challenges that I can see being an issue for these two different locations are one, the people that make up these two different locations. These employees need to be happy with their jobs as well as trained on a regularly basis. Which leads to challenge number two, supply and demand. This corporation has been very successful due to the demands of the products they produce, but there are always those times when the demand tends to fall. Are these locations strong enough and able to keep their employees happy through