Comportamiento Organizacional

Organizational Behavior
¨Organizational Behavior is the study of individuals and their behavior within the context of the organization in a workplace setting. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychology, communication and management.¨
In module one the author describes Organizational Behavior as ¨the individual behavior and group dynamics in organizations. The study oforganizational behavior is primarily concerned with the psychosocial, interpersonal, and behavioral dynamics in organizations.¨
The way I see this term is that it interprets people within the organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and whole social system. The main purpose for this is to build better relationships between the people in theorganization by achieving human objectives, organizational objectives, and social objectives.
It is really important to understand the way people act and why they act this way. The human behavior is something really complex. Human behavior is the behaviors exhibited by humans and this behaviors are influenced by different factors such as culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority,rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion and genetics. Some people might act on a common way, on an unusual way, some on an acceptable way, and some outside the acceptable limits. ¨The acceptability of behavior is evaluated relative to social norms and regulated by various means of social control.¨ Human behavior has two different perspectives; the internal and the external perspective. ¨The internalperspective explains people’s actions and behavior in terms of their history and personal value systems.¨ it shows the way how past events in someone’s life can interfere in future behaviors. ¨The external perspective shows that a person’s behavior is best understood by examining the surrounding external events and environmental forces.¨ People might act and behave on a different way depending onthe place and the people that surround them, the external factors influence the way people act.
In an organization people have to adapt to different circumstances and surroundings. Organizations are systems that have people, technology, structure, and purposes. All of them have to interact with elements in the organization’s environment and these is where sometimes people adapt really well orsometimes they just have trouble adapting to the organizations environment. This is one of the many problems a manager can have inside the company. There are three other factors that can become a challenge for managers and the people that make part of the organization: Globalization, workforce diversity and ethics.
There can be two different types of organizations, the formal and the informal. Theformal organization has a group of goals, objectives, policies and procedures that define the way that employees should act inside the company. The informal organization is the set of beliefs, assumptions, values, attitudes, feelings and perceptions that determine the way in which workers of a company actually behave. For managers can be a challenge to achieve understanding the behavior of anorganization, these can require skills, knowledge and patience in order to analyze and get to an accurate conclusion of what are the reasons that determine the actions of the members in the organization.
National and Organizational Culture
These two terms can be related because one can influence the other one. But before explaining them it is important to understand the definition of culture.Culture according to the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is a definition highly misunderstood and misused, thus the need for an explanation: Culture refers to the following Ways of Life, including but not limited to:
-Language : the oldest human institution and the most sophisticated medium of expression.
-Arts & Sciences : the most advanced and refined forms of human expression....