Organisational Behavior Changes in Management

“Making reference to material from the OB and HRM module, discuss the key preoccupations and challenges for managing organizations over the next decade”

When I sat down reflecting upon the few piece of works on Organization Behaviour and Human Resource Management that I came across over the last two weeks, I was simply amazed. This subject and the lectures by Dr. M.Brighman, Dr. K.Greasley and Professor F.Blackler have provided me a deeper insight on how to view and manage organization. And am I so good in discussing my view on the topic of key preoccupations and challenges for managing organizations over the next decade? I may not be, but then I realized that I am able to figure out something - the common message that most of the recent studies on OB and HRM are wisely elaborating on for the managers of organizations across the world to focus. What I have attempted to depict through this essay is the same and I strongly feel that it’s all about ‘Valuing the people’- that is managing the workforce and “Enacting and Sensemaking” (Weick, 1969). To explain so, I would like to take a step back and analyze the changing nature of organizational behaviour, the changing nature of the function of human resources management and the changing nature of organizations and management.

Study of management dates back to post 2nd world war period when the preoccupation of the organization was planned change in a scientific, logical and rational manner. This attention shifted to humanization and politics of work organizations from mid-60s to late-70s. Early-80s to mid-90s, the focus was on market liberalization and on triumph of global market. Over the last 15 years, this focus moved on to globalization. Partnership, networking, outsourcing, modernization through Information technology and through new forms of people- relation became the prime interest of managers of various organizations globally. But in this rapid changing and complex world, which American academic Howard...