Organization Performance and Behavior

Organization Performance and Behavior

Luigi Humberto López Guzmán

UNAD Florida

Advanced Organizational Behavior BUS732

November 26, 2012

Instructor: José Luis Fierro

Introduction

For decades the managers have sought to improve organizational performance, this situation is as old as the culture. Organizations was previously seen as a way to achieve competitiveness and benefit on the basis of a horizontal division of labor and vertical decision-making, where there was someone at the top who was who thought and others were automatons who are paid to make what is ordering them and nothing else. This was a linear organizational structure. Today, the concept of organization has changed and has gone from a linear thinking to systemic thinking, where things are not seen as isolated structures but as processes belonging to a whole; in this sense, we can say that the organization is a system of relations between individuals through which people, under the leadership of managers, pursue common goals. The organizational goals are the product of planning and processes of decision-making where the objectives are created on the basis of the ability to learn that employees - have knowing that the organizations charged relevance by leveraging the enthusiasm and learning ability of staff possessing.

Managers want to be sure that their organizations may endure long and in doing so, in our times, it is necessary to learn about human behavior in organizations and this is only understandable when we analyze it holistically, systemic, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, and where the relations people-organization must be viewed as a whole, having as understood that technical skills are necessary for success in administrative management. In addition, managers need to have good skills with people and develop the skills of its collaborators, since the positive and/or negative impact that the components of the Organization (individuals, groups and structure) has about herself will be directly proportional to the success or failure that the organization gets.

Nature and Importance of Organizational Behavior.

To define the Organizational Behavior (OB) should cite the concept they give us various authors: "Is a field of study that investigates the impact of individuals, groups and structures on behavior within organizations, in order to apply the knowledge acquired in the improvement of the effectiveness of an organization." Stephen P. Robbins (1998) "the study and implementation of knowledge relating to the way in which people