Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts

Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts

Organizational behavior is the behavior of individuals, either one or a group. It is not the behavior of an organization, but rather the behavior of the people in an organization. This can be anywhere from a family at home to a church to a work group within a company. Some of the challenges that make behaviors challenging in today’s workplace are high performance, ethical behavior, productivity improvement, technology utilization, quality, diversity, work-life balance, and the global economy, (Schermerhorn, 2003, P. 1).

Starting with Garrett through the many merges and acquisitions to Honeywell, we have gone from the good ol boy behavior to a global corporation that for the most part as sound behavior. We are not prefect, if there can be such a thing, but we a continuing improving our behaviors as individuals. Those individuals whose behaviors are less then required and terminated. Our workforce comes from many cultures and the barriers can cause problems at times. It is the speed in which those barriers are knock down that will make us more successful. As a manger and the more I learn about the different behaviors and the actions of them the better I can correct problems as they arise.

Organizational culture is having the same actions, values and beliefs in a group. Again this can be as small as a family and the culture that it lives by and as large as a country and the culture they live by. In the readings I read that in Japan, they have to change their culture as we did many years ago with the emergences of women in the workplace. In the U.S. and the passing of women rights, the Japanese culture was men first, followed by women.

With companies now operating in a global setting we are learning more and more about each others cultures and understanding how to act and understand behaviors of each culture.

Within a culture you may have subcultures that have many of the same beliefs as the majority, but have things that are totally different. Within Honeywell we have a global culture with many subcultures. Within our campus the belief and actions of the Engineering group is slightly different then the manufacturing community although we all share the same organizational beliefs and goals. There are fewer differences within a manufacturing department and all manufacturing departments are very simil...

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...ople in the community. The global economy is also changing on how we learn. We must learn more about different parts of the world and understand the cultures in which we want to do business if we are to be successful. Not only do we need to learn but within a company you should communicate best practices so others may reap the improvements made by others and time and money is saved by not repeating experiments.

At Honeywell, it is open for anyone to learn form a variety of topics. This class is funded by Honeywell, and also there are many internal classes given to whom every wants to improve there skills or knowledge. Not only are there voluntary classes, but there are required training classes in such things as safety and quality.

This class I hope will better prepare me to be a more effective and efficient manager by allowing me to better communicate with a diverse workforce who will allow us to grow as individual and as a team and allow us to continue to better our organization and providing for our families.

Works Cited:

Schermerhorn, John R., Hunt, James G., Osborn, Richard N. (2003). Organizational

Behavior (8th edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.