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Question 2

Discrimination is a challenge to OB. In your opinion, how does workplace discrimination undermine organizational effectiveness? Answer must be justified in relation to the concepts covered in the chapters.

Answer 1

Answer: Organisational Behaviour(OB): It is the study of employees behaviour in an organization. It comprehends that how an employee behaves and act in the workplace. It helps us develop an understanding of the aspects that can motivate employees, increase their performance and establish a strong relationship within the workplace.

Discrimination is a challenge to OB:

• There are varieties of discrimination that caused a challenge to organisational behaviour like no equal employment opportunity between men and women, harassing behaviour can come from superior, co-worker, client, discrimination on the basis of colour, caste, religion, age, disability, sex etc.
• denial of training opportunities, transfers and promotion.
• Sexual harassment. now all the above challenges it reduces the productivity of an organisation. it affects an employee he/she starts absenting from the work by consuming more leaves.  employees who are the victim of discrimination at work might also have trouble interacting with their co-workers,   Victims of workplace discrimination suffered from emotional distress that increase their stress and anxiety levels which affects their health and ultimately leads to unproductive work at a workplace.    

Workplace discrimination undermines organizational effectiveness in the following ways:

• Although diversity gives an opportunity in an organisation if it leads to unfair discrimination then it starts giving unproductive results.
• if the particular manager following or allowing his behaviour towards stereotypes this is judging someone on the basis of perception then it leads to discrimination.
• after that overall performance in an organization starts eroding as a culture of an organisation is highly miserable.
• It starts demotivating workers and employees.
• Cultivating negative attitudes towards each other in a team.
• all these things create wastage of vital energy from the production process.
• organisational effectiveness is an important point for any business success as organisational effectiveness produces the desired effect that is produced results without wastage. discrimination actually erodes effectiveness.
• As because of discrimination an organisation is not able to effectively utilise the human resource, compromise quality, close system. low-performance work practice