Mt302 Final

Final Project

Mark Brown

New University

MT302 Organizational Behavior

April 2008

Unit Nine: Final Project

There are several organizational behavior practices that I have observed that have fostered positive change within my previous organization. According to Robbins & Judge (2007), “Recognition of the importance of developing managers’ interpersonal skills is closely tied to the need for organizations to get and keep high-performing employees (p. 4). Managers oftentimes are able to lead an organization through strong leadership skills but they tend to forget about the people under them that are helping them lead through diligent hard work. A personal example that I can think of occurred when my previous employer who was an excellent leader but used more of a dictatorship style and tended to micromanage quite a bit. The staff under my previous supervisor had very low morale because their leader did not take time to understand them and to care about their needs and/or input related to the tasks that needed to be completed. We later discovered that our supervisor received a very negative report from the previous supervisor which gave he preconceived notions of how the work environment would interact. She then began to engage in relationship building activities with each staff member and changed her dictatorship ways by focusing on our strengths and weaknesses rather than trying to micromanage. This is why managers need to have better interpersonal skills in order to be able to guide their employees and set an example through skills obtained from organizational behavior study.

Theories of motivation from this course, if applied in an organization, could increase employee performance, in my opinion motivation is situational. Depending on the situation determines whether the person may or may not be motivated. An example of this could be a person who is very academically inclined they may feel motivated to do better on a test than someone who likes...