Challenges and opportunities for ob
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This presentation discusses challenges and opportunities in organizational behavior. Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary field that examines how individuals, groups, and structures affect behavior in organizations. Some challenges discussed include overseeing the movement of jobs to lower-cost countries, stimulating innovation and change, working in networked organizations, increasing employee empowerment, and the emergence of e-organizations. Opportunities discussed are improving ethical behavior in organizations. The presentation provides examples of each challenge and opportunity and their implications for organizational management.
Challenges and opportunities for ob
- 3. What is Organizational Behavior? Organizational behaviour is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structures have on behaviour within an organization for the purpose of applying such knowledge towards improving an organization's effectiveness. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychology, communication, and management.
- 4. Challenges and Opportunities for OB Overseeing movement of jobs to countries with Low-cost labor. Stimulating Innovation and Change. Working in Networked Organization. Increasing Empowerment. Emergence E-organization. Improving Ethical Behavior.
- 5. Overseeing movement of jobs to countries with Low-cost labor: It’s increasingly difficult for managers in advance nation. In a global economy, jobs tend to flow where lower costs give business a comparative advantage, through labor group, politicians, and local community leaders see the exporting of jobs as undermining the job market at home. Managers face the difficult task of balancing the interests of their organization with their responsibilities to the communities in which they operate.
- 6. Stimulating Innovation and Change: Today’s successful organizations must foster innovation and master the art of change, or they’ll become candidates for extinction. Victory will go to the organizations if that maintain their flexibility, continually improve their quality, and beat their competition to the marketplace with a constant stream of innovative product and services.
- 7. Working in Networked Organization: The manager’s job is different in a networked organization. Motivating and leading people and making collaborative decisions online requires different techniques than when individuals are physically present in a single location. Network organizations allow people to communicate and work together even though they may be thousands of miles apart.
- 8. Increasing Empowerment : If leaders want to tap into the possibilities of an empowerment-based company, they need to have confidence in employees. For an empowerment-based organization, rules and policies that interfere with self-management should be made more soften. Leaders should also set goals that can inspire people. Employees should also be given opportunities to make their own decisions and successful.
- 9. Emergence E-organization: It refers to the business operations involving electronic mode of transactions. In this process, the marketing and selling of goods and services are being carried out over the Internet. E-business includes developing strategies for running Internet- based companies, creating integrated supply chains, collaborating with partners to electronically coordinate design and production, identifying a different kind of leader to run a ‘virtual’ business, finding skilled people to build and operate internet and websites, and running the back room or the administrative side. Today’s successful organization must focuses on to e- organization.
- 10. Improving Ethical Behavior: A very important organizational challenge relates to ethical behaviors. It is the duty of today’s managers to create an ethically healthy climate for their employees, where they can do their work productively and with clean conscience. Managers and their organizations are responding to the problem of unethical behavior in number of ways. Managers must disclose code of ethics to guide employees through ethical dilemmas. They can organizing seminars, workshops, training programs to try to improve ethical behavior of employees. The complexity in business operations is forcing the workforce to face ethical dilemmas, where they are required to define right and wrong conduct in order to complete their assigned activities.
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