Organizational Behavior

1. Challenges andChallenges and
Opportunities forOpportunities for
Organizational BehaviorsOrganizational Behaviors
EDWIN B.R. GBARGAYEEDWIN B.R. GBARGAYE
DM-217DM-217
DISCUSSANT/NARRATOR/DISCUSSANT/NARRATOR/
FACILITATORFACILITATOR

2. Challenges Opportunities
• Globalization
global competition
• Advanced Information
Technology
knowledge creation and
sharing
-need to understand
different cultures:
develop new behaviors
-impact on org’n
structure: how to
design individual jobs:
reengineering;
benchmarking

3. Challenges Opportunities
• Continuous innovation
and change
resistance to change
-change in what and
how we learn:
stimulating creativity;
retraining
• Customer satisfaction
quality products and
services
-including employees
in planning changes
• Time pressures: tough
competition
cutting corners: ethical
dilemmas
-helping employees
sort out ethical
ambiguous situations

4. Challenges Opportunities
• Employee
empowerment
-giving up and taking
responsibility
• Balancing work
life conflicts:
stress
-designing work places
and jobs
• Declining
employee loyalty
-motivating workers

5. Challenges Opportunities
• Temporariness:
short-term stability
-learning to live with
unpredictability
• Work diversity
background; gender;
age; inclination;
lifestyles; values;
ethnicity; culture; work
styles; family needs;
personal goals
-recognizing and
addressing individual
differences to ensure
productivity; creativity;
innovation and
retention