Defining Organization Behavior
Assignment
Why do you think the subject of organizational behaviour might be criticized as being “only common sense” when one would rarely hear such a criticism of a course in physics or statistics? Discuss (at least five pages)
In attempting to discuss the above posed question one has to understand why the field of organization behaviour exists and its importance. Since people tend to think that moral, ethics, common sense, religion, can help managers to manage individuals in an organization.
Different ways of looking at the world produce different knowledge and thus different perspectives come to be associated with their own concepts and theories. This is the case of our question in hand. The concepts and theories of a particular perspective offer you distinctive thinking tools with which to craft ideas. Depending upon your intentions, you may find that particular perspectives have greater appeal than others for your purpose. The more knowledge you have of perspectives, concepts and theories, the greater will be your capacity to choose a useful approach to dealing with the situations you face in your working environment.
But why study organizational behaviour? Suppose you are an investment analyst trying to evaluate the long-term profitability of a company. What are some of the observable factors you might consider in making a judgment…may be you will consider financial strength, quality of its products, market dominance, technology, and management; all of these are important, but they are mostly about the present. Just because technology is good today doesn't mean it will always be good. There are a lot of makers of vacuum tubes that can attest to that. Financial strength is basically a measure of the company's past success.
What determines whether the company will continue to develop sought-after products, will continue to develop cutting edge technology, will continue to make the right guesses about which way the market is going to go,
Why do you think the subject of organizational behaviour might be criticized as being “only common sense” when one would rarely hear such a criticism of a course in physics or statistics? Discuss (at least five pages)
In attempting to discuss the above posed question one has to understand why the field of organization behaviour exists and its importance. Since people tend to think that moral, ethics, common sense, religion, can help managers to manage individuals in an organization.
Different ways of looking at the world produce different knowledge and thus different perspectives come to be associated with their own concepts and theories. This is the case of our question in hand. The concepts and theories of a particular perspective offer you distinctive thinking tools with which to craft ideas. Depending upon your intentions, you may find that particular perspectives have greater appeal than others for your purpose. The more knowledge you have of perspectives, concepts and theories, the greater will be your capacity to choose a useful approach to dealing with the situations you face in your working environment.
But why study organizational behaviour? Suppose you are an investment analyst trying to evaluate the long-term profitability of a company. What are some of the observable factors you might consider in making a judgment…may be you will consider financial strength, quality of its products, market dominance, technology, and management; all of these are important, but they are mostly about the present. Just because technology is good today doesn't mean it will always be good. There are a lot of makers of vacuum tubes that can attest to that. Financial strength is basically a measure of the company's past success.
What determines whether the company will continue to develop sought-after products, will continue to develop cutting edge technology, will continue to make the right guesses about which way the market is going to go,