How Organizational Culture Impacts Productivity

Organizational behavior is defined as the array of ways individual conduct themselves in task oriented environments which includes but is not limited to the groupings of employers or employees, military, and churches. Organizational behavior also includes the study of leadership, discipline, motivation, interpersonal relations, and performance feedback.

Organizational behavior has for many years played an important role in the life of its employees and still today the same is true. According to answers.com in every field of social science, or even physical science, there is a philosophical foundation of basic concepts that guide its development (Ronnis).

The same apply to organizational behavior; the philosophical concepts are as followed:

Individual differences: Each individual in the world is different from each others. This thought is supported by science. Every person is different from each others, it has said to be in more than a million ways, just as each persons DNA profile is different.

The idea of individual difference comes originally from psychology. From the day of birth, each person is unique, and individual experiences after birth tend to make people even more different (Ronnis).

Perception: People’s perceptions are also different. Two people can differently handle the same situation and this takes place because of their experiences. A person always organizes and interprets what they see according to their lifetime of experience and accumulated value.

Employees also see work differently because of their different past experiences, needs, demographics factors, personalities, and social surrounding.

For example, if was working in customer service and an irritated customer comes in and gives me a piece of their mind I would let the customer finish. After they were done I would attempt to solve the problem. Not all individual handle situations in that manner.

A whole person: An employee's personal life is not detached from his working life...