0rganizational Behavior

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By: Nemgne Sorel

Prof: Luo Fan

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CONTENT:

Introduction

I. Organizational behavior forces

II. Organizational culture / behavior and performance

III. Environment and strategy

IV. Organizational design / structure

V. People

Some references

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Modern organizations evolve as the marketplace and societies evolve around them. Political, environmental, and economic factors drive these changes in certain directions. Typically, organizations not only adapt to these changes but initiate them too. Adaptation can be achieved “passively” by merely reacting to external stimulus or “actively” by truly embracing changing circumstances to maximum benefit. Historically, we are aware of many of these changes, the industrial age, the innovation age, the age of the knowledge worker, or the creative age.

The future requires us to work smarter, to be open and flexible. This will be flat from a point of view of opportunity for all or spiky when it comes to valleys and mountains of creativity. It will be demanding when one tries to be financially and economically successful in an environment of more players and equality in access to information.

Albert Einstein stated, “A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. Experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Modern organizations must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening its circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”1

Modern organizations must see the world as a whole, as a set of inter-connected systems. Organizations have lost the understanding of inter-connection, even as the world has become smaller and more readily present in our own businesses...