Question

What are the three levels of analysis in our Organizational Behavior model?

Answer 1

Organizational behavior is nothing but the human behavior the affect the organization positively or negatively. Focusing on organizational behavior is essential and is concerned with psychological, interpersonal and behavior within the organization.

The reasons organization behavior is important in managing an organization are:-

• Organizational behavior influence organizational culture. Organizational culture is nothing but the collection of assumptions, values and beliefs which gives the clear picture to people as how to behave in organization. These shared assumptions, values and beliefs influence the people in the organization to depict right kind of behavior in order to perform their jobs better. Thus particular behavior about employees portrays the organizational culture.
• Organizational behavior gives clear picture that in order to improve performance of the employees, it is very important to motivate them.
• Organizational behavior influence decision making in the organization. If the organization have effective communication mechanism then the employees and managers are likely to make informed decision because of their clear understanding of business processes.
• Organizational behavior helps the companies to manage change effectively. Employees often prefer to do same kind of work and they resist change. Thus it is important for the managers to communicate change to the employees and give them opportunities to ask questions.

The three levels of analysis in our Organizational Behavior model include: -

• Individual level of analysis - At this level, organizational behavior involves the analysis of different aspect that is related to employees like creativity, motivation, turnover, performance, ethics, etc.
• Group level of analysis - At this level, organizational behavior involves the analysis of different aspect related to the teams and groups like dynamics of group, conflict and group cohesion, leadership, roles, etc.
• Organizational level of analysis - At this level, organizational behavior involves analysis of different aspect that is related to organization like organizational culture, , structure, workforce diversity, conflict, change, external forces, etc.