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Essay on Organizational Behavior Forces
Organizational behavior is the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Organizations are defined by their paradigms, that is, the prevalent view of reality shared by members of the organization. Under a particular dominant paradigm, structure, strategy, culture, leadership and individual role accomplishments are defined by this prevailing world view; and radical change in organizations may be construed as a discontinuous shift in this socially constructed reality. The evolution of scientific theories is always punctuated by revolutionary leaps in which the entire shape of scientific activities and world views are altered. Change in scientific activities follows a predictable path where a long period during which the dominant scientific theories are barely questioned is punctuated by noncumulative, radical breaks. Organizations can be understood as enacted realities that define what to do and what not to do in organizations as a symbolic resource.
More specifically, an organizational paradigm can be defined as a world view, a frame of reference, or "a set of assumptions, usually implicit, about what sorts of things make up the world, how they act, how they hang together, and how they may be known". This world view is composed of three interrelated components: a way of looking at the world which creates an image of the subject matter about the world's phenomena and constructs a system of beliefs; a way of doing things that provides the methods and instruments needed to apply fundamental beliefs to internal and external realities; and an interaction among human agents to support both the belief system and the normative behavior, including social networks that support the adoption and practice of a particular paradigm. (Katz, D. (1964)
An organization's achievement depends on the people who occupy it. Individual development, employee empowerment, and socialization are important topics related to organizational behavior and the speed at which a company can use personnel for maximum effectiveness.............
