Organizational Behavior

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal M. Ashkanasy ◽  
Alana D. Dorris
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Employee Values

Organizational behavior (OB) is a discipline that includes principles from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Its focus is on understanding how people behave in organizational work environments. Broadly speaking, OB covers three main levels of analysis: micro (individuals), meso (groups), and macro (the organization). Topics at the micro level include managing the diverse workforce; effects of individual differences in attitudes; job satisfaction and engagement, including their implications for performance and management; personality, including the effects of different cultures; perception and its effects on decision-making; employee values; emotions, including emotional intelligence, emotional labor, and the effects of positive and negative affect on decision-making and creativity (including common biases and errors in decision-making); and motivation, including the effects of rewards and goal-setting and implications for management. Topics at the meso level of analysis include group decision-making; managing work teams for optimum performance (including maximizing team performance and communication); managing team conflict (including the effects of task and relationship conflict on team effectiveness); team climate and group emotional tone; power, organizational politics, and ethical decision-making; and leadership, including leadership development and leadership effectiveness. At the organizational level, topics include organizational design and its effect on organizational performance; affective events theory and the physical environment; organizational culture and climate; and organizational change.

AmNet

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-226
Author(s):  
Timothy Harper ◽  
Barbara Norelli ◽  
Melanie Brandston ◽  
Mary Taber
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Organizational Challenges ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Purpose Micro organizational behavior – an individual level of analysis (i.e. motivation, personality, attitudes, learning, etc.). Meso organizational behavior – team/group level of analysis (i.e. communication, team dynamics, power, politics, etc.). Macro organizational behavior – an organizational level of analysis (i.e. strategy, structure, culture, control, etc.). Marketplace or external environment (PESTEL analysis). Research methodology The research was conducted by a consultant in the role of a participant-observer. Case overview/synopsis The focus of the case is a disguised nonprofit organization, the American-Netherlands Foundation (AmNet), based in Chicago. The organization faced leadership and organizational challenges related to conflicting strategic and operational priorities among the board of trustees, the president and staff. An unexpected contribution of $750,000 increased the salience of these differences. The case provides students an excellent opportunity to apply their analytical skills and knowledge gained in a management and business course. Complexity academic level Organizational behavior; organizational design; organizational development; and organizational theory. Levels – upper-level undergraduate through first-year MBA students.

Does gender specific decision making exist?

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
María del Mar Alonso-Almeida ◽  
Kerstin Bremser
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Travel Agencies

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore management decisions during the ongoing financial crisis from a gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical analysis was conducted using a sample of 132 personal surveys involving managers of independent small travel agencies. Findings were extracted using a logistic regression analysis. Findings – This paper finds some significant gender differences in strategic management decisions in crisis times and in strategic choices. Nevertheless, no differences were found in organizational performance. Research limitations/implications – The research covers travel agencies in Madrid, Spain. Thus, findings might be restricted to this specific sector or geographic area. Practical implications – The findings provide useful empirical evidence for leadership development and strategic management that will enhance leadership effectiveness from a gender viewpoint and facilitate advances in women business management theory. Originality/value – This paper compares strategic managerial decisions in crisis times from a gender viewpoint and analyzes their impact on performance. According to our knowledge no study has currently been found that analyzes decision making in companies led by women and contrasts their actions to those taken by men faced with an identical situation.

scholarly journals The Effects of Organizational Design and Decision Making Process on Organizational Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayundha Evanthi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Customer Choice ◽  
Positive Effects

This research was aimed to analyze organizational performance through organizational design and decision making process. Garuda Indonesia was chosen as the case study object of this research, because the condition of organizational design and decision making process were taken through decentralization method. This research result referred that the organizational design and decision making process could affect positively on organizational performance, which in this recent research, the organizational design was proven to deliver positive effects on organizational performance, but only on organic org. form. Garuda Indonesia as a full service airline needed innovation to keep improving and being customer choice, which the strategic decision making was taken through decentralization method according to the dynamic needs in the middle of competitive environment with full of uncertainties.

scholarly journals Navigating the ethical maze through design action research

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 456-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Tansley ◽  
Susan Kirk ◽  
Colin Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Frame Set

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify how ethical stances can be used to develop a frame set in the design of a web-based decision support system (DSS) for ethical decision-making and to test both the efficacy of these frames and the potential of such a tool for individuals and groups in both leadership development situations and organisational practice. Unethical behaviour by executives is a frequently cited reason for erosion of trust with other stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – Utilising action research, by choosing ethics frames such as heuristics, a web-based ethics DSS designed to enable users to explore ethical issues from multiple perspectives was constructed and this was beta-tested with a major UK bank and a global oil company. Findings – In orchestrating constant revisions of the ethics frames in the tool, learning from each research cycle was identified, a new form of action research, a design action research, which emphasises the importance of collaboration in the design of such decision-making tools, was offered and the tool for management development and other applications was successfully beta-tested. Originality/value – It was demonstrated to management developers how web-based systems might be designed by non-information technology professionals; the framing literature was added by demonstrating the value of engaging in dialogue about ethical issues of concern to managers and their organisations and thus improving decision-making; and additions were made to the literature on ethics and Information systems (IS) and contribution toward action research in the fields of IS and ethics was done.

Ethical Decision Making and Organizational Behavior: A Case of Life and Death

HEC Forum ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Ross ◽  
Sherry K. Ross ◽  
Bruce A. McClung
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Life And Death

The job search dilemma: good vs right

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-495
Author(s):  
Noel F. Palmer ◽  
Kyle W. Luthans ◽  
Jeffrey S. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employee Recruitment ◽  
A Company

Synopsis Desai, a College Student, faced a job search dilemma. Desai applied for two internships – one with a company known for a good culture, Strategic Carrier Logistics (SCL), the other with Thijs Marketing, a company in an industry more familiar and desirable to Desai. After a number of recruitment interactions with both companies, Desai received an offer from SCL and was given two days to decide. Unsure whether Thijs Marketing would make an offer, Desai considered accepting the offer from SCL, but reneging if Thijs eventually offered a job. Research methodology The case was developed from primary sources, where “Desai’s” first-hand experience in searching for a job provides the true account of the events noted in the case. The names and demographic information for individuals were changed. Relevant courses and levels This case study is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational behavior (i.e. decision-making), human resources management (i.e. employee recruitment), and business ethics (i.e. ethical decision-making).

scholarly journals Pengaruh Moral Kognitif Pada Kinerja Keperilakuan Dan Kinerja Hasil Tenaga Penjualan

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ribhan Ribhan ◽  
Nasrullah Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Sales Force ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Behavioral Performance ◽  
Outcome Performance

Ethical decision making has become a critical issue as the pressure to improve the behavior of successful salespeople in all the current economic conditions. The values contained in the employees will affect the decision making of individuals or employees that will have an impact on organizational performance. Moral or cognitive moral is at the core of the most ethical decision-making models in the marketing and management. This study examined the effect of cognitive moral behavioral performance and  outcome performance of the sales force and influence behavioral performance in sales force outcome performance. By using simple linear regression method obtained  results that the  hypothesis that cognitive moral effect on behavioral performance of salespeople, singnifikan effect (b = -0.296; sig 0.000) supported. Hypothesis 2 is not supported, which suggests that moral considerations affect the outcome performance in this study were not significant (b = -0.122; sig .148). The next hypothesis states that behavioral performance positive influence on the outcome  performance of the support (b = 0.217; sig 0.009). To obtain the results of an individual's performance is good and responsible, it must enhance or improve the behavior of decision-making is based on cognitive moral salespeople. Performance results of the sales force increased when the behavior of salespeople work better and responsible.

scholarly journals The Importance of WE in POWER: Integrating Police Wellness and Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Blumberg ◽  
Konstantinos Papazoglou ◽  
Michael D. Schlosser
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Wellness Program ◽  
Recommendations For Action

In this article, the authors introduce the POWER perspective of police wellness and ethics. POWER stands for Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience. The perspective represents the view that wellness and ethics cannot be discussed separately; they are inextricably connected to each other. Initiatives to address one should always, simultaneously, include the other. Although there is a need for wellness and ethics to be addressed on an organizational level, the present article emphasizes the importance of POWER for individual police officers. The authors make the argument that officers need to expand the way in which they conceptualize their own wellness to include efforts to maintain ethical decision-making. Specifically, officers will remain psychologically healthier when they take active steps to stay steadfastly committed to their ethical principles. Likewise, officers who utilize a comprehensive wellness program, including strategies to boost resilience, will be far less likely to experience lapses in ethical decision-making. Further recommendations for action and implication of this matter in law enforcement are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals The strategist thought: granted factors in the strategic decision making of the small and medium enterprises

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-106
Author(s):  
Werner Duarte Dalla ◽  
Carlos Alberto Gonçalves ◽  
Reynaldo Maia Muniz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The organizational behavior is linked to the strategic decision-making, carried through its main decision-makers, called “strategists”. This behavior, in organizational daily actions or planning, shifts its performance to consider market and tangible and intangible resources. The present study aimed to contribute in the understanding of how these actors formulate their strategies, build their heuristics, to manage their firms to improve organizational performance. The RepGrid - Repertory Grid (Kelly, 1955) was chosen as the method, which was undertaken with the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) owners of the footwear area of a relevant cluster production of Nova Serrana-MG - Brazil. The results appointed agent factors of attention, which centralize the decision in the managers or owners, base on financial results, asses actual internal factors so that external sales, and lead to a emergent and less formalized process. 

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