challenges & opportunities for organizational behavior
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Organizational BehaviorTRANSCRIPT
Challenges and Challenges and Opportunities for Opportunities for
Organizational BehaviorsOrganizational Behaviors
EDWIN B.R. GBARGAYEEDWIN B.R. GBARGAYE
DM-217DM-217
DISCUSSANT/NARRATOR/ DISCUSSANT/NARRATOR/ FACILITATORFACILITATOR
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
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
Challenges Opportunities
• Employee empowerment
-giving up and taking responsibility
• Balancing work life conflicts: stress
-designing work places and jobs
• Declining employee loyalty
-motivating workers
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