Organizational behavior

Organizational behavior is currently a growing field. Organizational studies departments are generally within business schools, although many universities also have industrial psychology and industrial economics programs.

The field is highly influential in the business world with practitioners like Peter Drucker and Peter Senge who turned the academic research into business practices. Organization behavior is becoming more important in the global economy as people with diverse backgrounds and cultural values have to work together effectively and efficiently. It is also under increasing criticism as a field for its ethnocentric and pro-capitalist assumptions.

With regards to the methods used in Organizational Studies, a variety of methods are used in organizational studies. They include quantitative methods such as those found in other social sciences such as multiple regression and ANOVA experimental designs. In addition, computer simulation in organizational studies has a long history in the organizational studies. Finally, qualitative methods are also used such as ethnography which involves direct participant observation, single-and multiple-case analysis, and other historical methods. In the last fifteen years or so, an increasing amount of research on organizations has focused on language, metaphors and organizational storytelling.

It is so vital that a keen study should and must be made on how an individual reacts as a person in the understanding various reactions and behavior in relation to another person or group once an individual is placed into an organization or such any type of structure.

The primary role of the study is to take lead or act as an examiner with the individual as the core subject.  Before placing the subject matter into our group of individuals or the organization, we should learn first and take into consideration the source and the behavior of that existing organization and such system structures alike.

Proper analysis on how we approach and communicate with and towards every individual or the group itself, must be learned.  Through the identification of the behavior afore-mentioned, we draw and likewise, study the systems used of the methodologies being practiced in the interaction of our subject with these organizations.

An outlined view on how to affect and how the motivation results be reflected through appraisals and rewards as well as training, should be very well established, inculcated and learned within the organizational system.  An excellent way of implementing the above-given guidelines and practices is the emergence of a goof leadership.  A leadership that is impeccable and unquestionable in enabling a good mandate among organizations to ensure the organization’s empowerment and the full participation of its members.

What the course study promotes and tries to educate and impart is the infusion of subjective behavior towards a group or an organization, of an individual, who is trained and geared by leadership skills and an individual who is effective and affective as well to understand the reality and who can subjectively handle difficulties brought about by unsettled issues among individual members of the organization, through personal inter-action and subjective communication.

In this regard, an additional exploration on the possibility on the re-structuring of the organization in order to come up with some group of effective people (departments) or quasi bodies that will address the individual and organizational issues.  It is likewise important that these able groups of individuals are well-trained in the facets of human behavior.

The course subject study hones an effective individual leadership by way of example and through the following aspects of human behavior towards an organization: (1) Behavioral decision making; (2) Employee recognition programs; (3) Motivating special groups; (4) Visionary leadership; (5) Team leadership; (6) Ethical leadership; (7) Workspace design, and (8) Reading an organization's culture. Comparatively, it is like finding the right key person that will fit and unlock the organization’s untapped and undiscovered opportunities in business.

The active participation of every individual in the organization will also play an active role in the very course and success of the leaders and the structure itself.  Their inter-personal relationships and behavior on interactions within and outside the group and also towards their leaders must be based on well-founded principles and practiced guidelines.

The leadership and mandate of an individual or group must also be laid down and addressed based on what is being undertaken my most structures nowadays.

By far, the most important part of organizational behavior is the need to establish a firm system of leadership and cooperation adaptable to the demands not only by individuals that belong to the group but the whole group or structure itself.

sources:

http://www.prenticehall.ca/canbooks

Wikipedia – “Organizational Studies”

Business ethics

Business ethics is a form of the art of applied ethics that examines ethical rules and principles within a commercial context, the various moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business setting and any special duties or obligations that apply to persons who are engaged in commerce.

Business ethics can be both a normative and a descriptive discipline. As a corporate practice and a career specialization, the field is primarily normative. In academia descriptive approaches are also taken. The range and quantity of business ethical issues reflects the degree to which business is perceived to be at odds with non-economic social values. Historically, interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia. For example, today most major corporate websites lay emphasis on commitment to promoting non-economic social values under a variety of headings (e.g. ethics codes, social responsibility charters). In some cases, corporations have redefined their core values in the light of business ethical considerations (e.g. BP's "beyond petroleum" environmental tilt)

In today's business environment, the belief that organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, have ethical responsibilities to their stakeholders – owners, employees, customers, communities, etc. – has gained widespread acceptance. In higher education, and particularly in institutions dedicated to a classical liberal arts education, the belief that instruction in philosophy and theology is foundational to the development of individual morality is likewise well-established. What is not so clear, however, is the nature of the relationship between individual morality and business ethics, a topic of increasing currency in a society marked by increasing levels of business-social overlap. It determines whether and how morals, ethics and business success are connected, and also to explore the idea that that an education grounded in theology and philosophy is a source of competitive advantage in the job market.

In order to be successful in a specific business venture on an entrepreneur’s point of view, one needs to understand the importance of learning and putting into practice of proper of ethics in business management.  Being geared or focused to a business undertaking to being productive needs a management structure that is based on what is right and what is ethical.

An ideal overview on ideal standards of what is ethical and what is moral in terms of business management should be undertaken.  These ethical standards must coincide on what kind of business one is into.  A careful analysis and comparison must be established between the relationship and differences of the business and morality.  The underlying ethics based on the business should be carefully classified.

Through these ethical standards drawn, it will somehow act as a backbone or basis of business management or how to go about the effective running of a business venture.  A careful consideration is setting these ethical standards must be raised and should be based on a more general ethical standard viewpoint.  Practices and ethical standards of large organizations on the different facets and aspects of businesses and markets must be viewed and carefully studied.  In this regard, standardized ethics and codes of ethics of various professions should also be studied.  Through these, one should be able to draw an idea of how to apply the same to one’s current business undertaking.

The basic principles or business ethics being implemented by society through our government such as the proper and legal trade practices, must also be learned as well the government’s existing policies, procedures, guidelines and operating standards in business practice and management must also be taken into consideration as well as the important role of the government and the non-governmental organizations, in the implementation of the same.

The course study hones the student and the entrepreneur to carefully draw the proper ethical standards of business management based on that what is deeply rooted on the mores of the society, its implementing codes or guidelines on various business aspects and markets.

Through the above, one is drawn to methodically structure and organize or simply just adopt these ethics in business management for a more standardized and productive business venture that is both advantageous to the entrepreneur and to the well being of our society. 

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