How do individual behaviors in an organization impact the workplace? Consider motivation, perception, emotions, attitudes and stress. Provide 2 examples of individual behaviors and their likely outcomes.

Ans. the behavior of individual person behavior effects the organization and also affects its ability to make decision for the organization. The smooth flow of work place also affected due to gossiping and rudeness. Feeling transfer at workplace also affect the performance of a person and show different effects on its job. Happiness is the essential elements to work in the organization and if all the people follow the happiness then it is helpful in developing a friendly and healthy environment within the organization and of the gossip, bullying and rudeness show then the performance affected and also the environment of the organization became very tough and selfishness also present.

Emotion: a state of readiness is created toward an object, event or person through psychological, behavioral and physiological issues. Emotions fall into the readiness state and they also experience in different situations. Emotions have to act different at the work place because less emotion involve in the business.

Motivation: motivation is a form of mental development that enhance the level of working and also make the individual more strong and person can interpret the stimuli and its judgment and experience also consider very important.

Perception: perception is consider as process that organizes the sensation and organism interpret to develop a meaningful experience. In any situation a person can take better decision according to its personal judgment and also depend on experience that the organization utilize its perception about the organization.

Stress: stress is the emotional experience of any action. In any situation the stress is adaptive response that threatening a person and perceived as challenges for a person who work in the environment of different projects and also handle many different issues by managing its stress.

Attitude:  toward a person, event or object, the combination of different beliefs, behavioral intention and feelings all the consider in the attitude. This may affect with the behavioral intentions, feelings and beliefs. The attitude also show the mental set of individual who is working in an organization according to its requirement and capability. (Ray, 2019)

Example:

Two employees A and B are appointed in the organization. One person is very happy and nice in nature. He meet all the member of organization and met with all the staff. But the second person is very rude and mean. A person make the environment more friendly and B employees less spoken and selective in its decisions. So behavior of person effect the organization environment.

1.     What role can team development, conflict management, decision making and team leadership play in organizations? Provide 2 practical examples where these can be applied.

Ans. team development: to work collectively in the process of learning work , team development introduce a scope for the team and also explain that what stages are part of team development. This team development process utilizes different team to make their performance at high level. Its stage includes forming, norming, storming, adjourning and performing. All the stage of team development process are helpful in making the performance at high level and also provide complete criteria that how the team going to be more strong by following these stages according to team requirement. Like financial team of the organization follow the team development process.

Conflict management: conflict management is the way of handle and identify the conflicts between employees or teams and handle the matter with efficiently, fairly and sensibly. In the business nature as its part. Conflict management handle by those people who have complete knowledge about the conflict and know very well that how to handle the issue. When people work in the same place then they have to follow the conflict management according to given situations. Success of the company also depends on the conflict management because when all issues are resolve then it is going to be easy to take any major step toward the development. Like Ali is the senior manager of office and due to its brilliance and also leader of conflict management that sort out different issues. (O., 2019)

Decision making: decision making is a complete process that help to select the most important and effective solution. By using different alternatives, cognitive process also utilize for course of actions. Best possible outcome or alternative selected in the decision making process and provide a great solution to the organization according to its need. Decision making process is very effective to take better and accurate steps in the organization and its related projects.

Team leadership:  team leadership is act of team leaders that give all the guidance of group of individual, provide direction and also utilize the instructions. Team leader utilize the achieving of certain goals. Team leaders are the essential part of the organization because they develop strategies, implement strategies and also responsible for the performance of its team according to their instructions. (lumenlearning.com, 2019)

2.     What are some sources of power and how can they affect an organization? Provide 2 examples and their likely outcomes.

Ans.  Power is the essential part of the organization as it provides in all the areas of the organization and the utilization of power also used to settle any dispute. Five different type of keys are mention in the source of power and it also show that many organizations utilize different level of legislation according to its needs. Some of the power type are given as; expert power, referent power, coercive power, reward power and legitimate power. There are many differences between many issues and the utilization of power also depends on the situation.

Legitimate power obtains by a person through the position and role of the organization. Due to its position a person can utilize the legitimate power according to its limits and also show its power within the organization on projects and deadlines. Reward power is the ability to provide reward to other employees according to their working ability. Reward power also generated through legitimacy power according to company requirement. Coercive power is ability to give some punishment to other person against their actions .through fear, it enforces people to work and give pressure to people to perform that tasks. Expert power means that a person has knowledge and skills to perform any function in most effective manner. Organization has experts according to their working and performance and then provides the customer according to their demand with the consult of their experts who have power to provide accurate product according to their requirement. In most of technology companies, expert power is utilize as compare to legitimate power that show proper roles and responsibilities according to their task by utilizing its skills and knowledge. Referent power focus on the personal attributes of a person that explain the behavior and character as the degree to which people like, want and respect that person and also follow its instruction without any force. It has ability to attract the people, win their hearts and admire them through its behavior. Steve Jobs is the best example for the referent power that influences the people through its behavior.

Some of the examples of power are Obama the ex president of America influence the people through its behavior and also utilize its position power. The CEO of the organization also has ability to influence its power on the people.  (lumenlearning.com, 2019)

3.     What is the role that organizational culture plays in individual, team and organizational behavior? Give one example of this.

Ans. organization culture explain the method that how to behave in the organization. Different values and shared beliefs also explain by the leaders of the organization and develop effective communication in the organization. That provides better understanding of organization, its behaviors, ultimately shaping employee perception and different methods. Organization culture develops the system that how the people or employees behave performs and acts in the organization. Strong culture focuses on the performance of the organization and makes it successful with complete efforts. Leaders of the organization must be clear about their cultures and also explain the cultural identities in front of all the employees according to perspective of the organization.

Individual performance also effect due to culture of the organization as it emphasis that how the employee perform and what system he has to adopt for performing its tasks. What rules and regulations and reporting system he has to follow during the organization working. The performance of individual person also effect when the culture of the organization is supportive and admire its working abilities in most effective manner. The motivation and demotivation of performance depend on the culture of the organization according to employees working.

Team behavior also effect due to organization culture. Culture of the organization effect the team behavior and their role and responsibilities. There are also strategies and system specified in the organizations that team members has to follow while doing their projects. So the organization culture should be supportive for the team members and also determine their performance in most effective way that prominent the efforts of the team members and also show good results.

Organization behavior also different when the culture of the organization is set according to specific rules and regulation and the employees have friendly relationship with the employees and also provide most comfortable and convenient environment so that they perform their duties and functions and increase the productivity of the organization. All the factors are interrelated with each other. The culture of the organization set values and share beliefs that provide a most compatible environment to the people according to their working criteria. So the culture of the organization needs to be very supportive and help its employees to motivate their performance.

One of the best examples is the McDonald restaurants that develop most convenient culture and environment to its all employees. (shrm.org, 2018)

4.     What are some approaches for managing change and resistance to change in an organization? Provide two instances where this would be necessary and what is the potential outcome.

Ans.  There are also some approaches that help organization to manage the change that implemented by the organization to bring any new strategy and also helpful to maintain its environment and productivity. These are also some tips related to managing resistance to change in the organization. According to different practices of change management these tips are consider and provide benefit to the organization when the change is implemented.  These five tips are engaging the right resistance managers, identify the root causes of resistance, address resistance formally, expect resistance to change and o change management right the first time.

Engaging the right resistance managers means that the senior leaders, middle managers and frontline supervisors of the organization. The team of change management not acts as resistance manager. Remaining specialists also not act as effective resistance manager instead they take proper actions to manage the risk and provide better solution after implementation change. Identify the root causes means that managing resistance is not giving focus on the symptoms. It discusses its causes and roots related to resistance and also explain that how the resistance becomes meaning full for the organization is positive direction. Some of the basic root causes for resist the changes are; fear of job less, lack of visible support and commitment from managers, organization’s past performance with change, impact on current job role and lack of awareness of why the change was being made.

Formally manage the resistance to change not simply reactive for the management practitioners in the change with tactics. To mitigate the resistance and address different proactive steps also taken by the organization and implement approach of change management in the process of three different phases. This process includes change preparation, change managing and reinforce change to make the system of the organization more smooth and active. Expect resistance to change means that change will not easily adjustable by every employees because they are using the old system and their previous methods are in their tips so they take time to accept the change and show resistance to change in the organization. When any change bring in the organization then implement the change management within the organization and also settle different criteria and strategies that easily adjustable with the changes and employees never face any problem during their performance. (prosci.com, 2019)

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