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The Importance Of Organizational Behaviors In The Workplace

Organizational Behaviors refer to how individuals react by themselves or in a group in a company setting. This is the "micro" point of view, a social science discipline. There are many a theory on Organizational Behavior and how it could help the organization by managing the behavior of the employee/s. In fact, it has been accused as the scientific tool of the powerful. However, it has been recognized that Organizational Behaviors play a major role in the development and success of the company.

There are countless organizational behavior theories and one theory is Motivation Theories. This explains how employees behave to meet their needs, thus, affecting their choices. By knowing this theory, managers see how employees make choices on working hard or not working hard. This will always be based on their preferences, rewards and outcomes. One of the motivation theories at work is equity theory. Equity theory is when workers compare the rewards to the outcome of the job that they have done. They do not look at just their rewards but others as well. They tend to look over and beyond their shoulders. So tendency is some employees might think that they are getting less than their co-employees and vice versa. If not managed well, this might be destructive to the organization. Expectancy Theory is when an employee exerts high level of performance because of good performance reflected on performance appraisal. Another theory is the Expectancy Theory. This is cause and effect of behavior and its consequences. There are techniques that can be used at the workplace under the Expectancy Theory: positive reinforcement, avoidance, extinction and punishment. Last is the Goal Setting Theory. Employees do better work when they get feedback on jobs done. Meanwhile, managers work on the goals with the employees.

Organization Behavior is interesting as it allows the study of human behavior and the reason why employees react to a certain situation. The articles state that it is also practical because it is the understanding of the reason why some offer products and services efficiently while others do not.

Organizational Behaviors basically allows the identification of performing workers from the non-performing workers. Thus, it gives HR (Human Resource) these specific roles: organizational restructuring, job designing, personnel planning, recruitment hiring, evaluating, training, developing, promoting, compensating and lastly, terminating. Without the theories on Observational Behaviors, companies will most likely be scaring and driving away people instead of attracting and motivating them to stay. Thus, the reason for it's importance.