Trends In Organizational Behavior
Industries and technologies have reinvented themselves over the years. Businesses are more or less using these tools for their up move in profits. Industries have also realized that in order to keep the profits continuous and seamless, one has to ensure that human resources and the intellectual capital would need to be managed well. So long as a company has laid out effective Organizational Behavior strategies, it will always ensure that it has a firm foundation for success throughout.
But the question is, does every organization believe in understanding and managing Organizational Behavior?
- One of the most dangerous trends in Organizational Behavior which I observe in many companies these days is that the term Organizational Behavior is highly hyped up and given more importance than business success and business profitability. Business realizing that retaining top talent with them is the key, have in some cases gone overboard to ensure that they stay happy at all times. This they do by a classic mix of submission and defensive reaction to the employees. In some cases, this may work, but to be honest, it will be extremely dangerous for the company to maintain its sustainability.
- Secondly, I also feel that Organizational Behavior is not treated as a Performance Management measure in many organizations. People have come up and said that Organizational Behavior is highly subjective and measuring at as a part of an employee's performance will be will very tricky. The truth is Organizational Behavior principle can be stream rolled in one check list and you may not provide the employees with a score but you could always do a value assessment of the candidate based on how he interacts with peers.
- Thirdly and most importantly, when the company fails in one of his business objectives, hardly do the business managers look for faults in the OB model. Remember, OB model deals with people and you never know, people may have been angered by some new OB initiatives which has led to a dip in the performance. As an example, you have a manager who is not exactly living by his words and creating a lot of false vibes of the company to his employees. The Organizational Behavior principles are simple to put on text, and even more simpler to practice and it is at its simplest when you are looking to crack complex, people -sensitive topics.
That said, companies which are implementing Organizational Behavior strategies are ensuring that the change management curve of the employees is taken well care of. This is partly due to the fact that the companies are scared of losing their talent due to internal organizational changes. The organizational behavior strategies have indeed given the companies a good amount of flexibility.