Unit 551 Behavior In Organization

CORG 551: BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATION
WINTER 2015

WAFAEI, SALMA
STUDENT ID: 260563244

Self And Team Reflection: Managing your Organisational behaviour
Stephen P. Robbins defined organizational behavior as a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structures have on behavior within organizations; regarding the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization's effectiveness. Theorists in this field focused on the importance of understanding three major factors, which can help managing our organizational behaviors:
· Personality and Individuality of people
· Power of people
· Dynamic Relationship among people
Nature and consequences of individual differences

Since most of my studies are in multicultural environments like McGill, I learned more about people and their culture, which had an impact on me and my cognitive types. Such as, going out to meet people, having a better conversation with people I never met before, and speaking about what I intend to propose. I gained confidences with myself, which made me more of an extrovert. I increased my intuitive skills sets as I absorbed more from the people around me. Whenever I get a chance to do a team project or team work, I see what others do. How intuitive are they? How do they solve problems? How far do they think about the patterns and connections to the problem? I started seeing myself as a different person. I was able to understand people, analyze their needs and situations. I realized that I was gaining feelings for the people around me at work. These changes improved my decision making skills. The MBTI exam results showed my improvement in decision making skills, where I obtained equal percentage for both thinking and feeling. These changes I went through after coming to Canada made me ESTJ and ESFJ. In general I am proud of myself in terms of my improvement over my cognitive

However, my friend and I were playing roles to break the ice between the team. After our first meeting outside of the classroom, I found out that my group was friendlier as we started getting more comfortable with our team members. The first issue we encountered was how we should communicate to do the work. I was the person who created a group on WhatsApp and Skype in order to make the group communication more effective. The second issue we faced as a group was that we seemed to be stuck in the brainstorming stage. I could say that we spent more than two weeks in that stage just because there were lot of disagreements between team members on how we should be conducting our project. Each one had different idea and point of view. But after numerous meetings, we were finally able to come up with a detailed plan on how we were going to conduct our project, and we specifically defined each other specific