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The Importance Of Organizational Behavior In The Workplace

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Introduction Organization behavior studies how people interact in groups. It is used in business to improve the efficiency of workers in a company. Emotions and moods can affect in great part how an individual relates with his co-workers, customers, clients, and superiors. Also, moods and behavior can affect for better or worse how an individual perform his tasks at job. That is why studying the different emotions and moods an individual can experience as well as how to control them and what cause them is so important. To recognize and define different emotions and moods can help during the process of hiring new people for specific tasks as well as it can help increase work productivity and many others. At the same time, people fall in love at work, they get jealous towards colleagues, they can be intimidated by their work or also pride themselves with success. In fact, emotions are present at work as much as in any other sphere of life. Nevertheless, some companies still tend to favor the idea of a rational employee, that is employee who shows no emotions. Fortunately, most of the employers found out that it is very important to hire people that can be emotional. For example – the seller that is enthusiastic about the products he sells might sell much more products and bring more customers …show more content…

It is a sudden storm of emotions. Rapid change of emotions, which has very specific focus and appears on the basis of provocation. Responding to the stimulus that irritates us to release a strong emotional strain. The affects are strong, very intense, but luckily short-lived as their intensity exhausts the whole organism. The affect is always accompanied by significant physiological changes (redness, blushing, accelerated heartbeat and breath, higher blood pressure) and facial expressions. Fortunately, the affection tends to end up as fast as it started thanks to an immediate discharge of

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