Organizational Behavior: Internal And External Perspectives

UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

MBALN-701

KISSI Akua Mansa

1/23/2017

INTRODUCTION

In defining an organizational behavior one should also note that there are two terms which are included. Organization is a group of people who are collected to work for a common goal with their collective efforts and behavior is the verbal or physical response shown by a person as a consequence of the impact of his or her surroundings. Therefore organizational behavior is the study of both groups and individual within an organization based on their performance and activities. Internal and external perspectives are two theories of how organizational behavior can be viewed by companies.

This area of study scrutinizes human behavior in

Many factors to come into play whenever people interact in an organization. Modern organizational studies attempt to understand and model these factors. Organizational studies seek to control, predict and explain as it plays a major role in organizational development which enhances these overall organizational performance as well as enhancing individual and group performance, satisfaction and commitment.

One may ask that of what importance or benefit it will be to conduct an organizational behavior audit in an organization. An organizational behavior audit is conducted within an organization to create an enhanced understanding of the organization’s environs and how the employees or staff will interrelate with it. Organizational behavior audit is very necessary in every organization as this aids management or team leaders to know what trend to take or decision to make in order for the organization to have continuity for a long period of time. Organizational behavior matters at every level within the organization and even at critical levels. Organizational behavior audit helps the organization to be more engaged with its members because

Therefore the organization needs to find out from the audit if the right process and policies are been used in employing or recruiting new staff. The audit is very necessary as it serves as the doorway for people to get access to the organization so if the right people are not recruited it will go a long way to affect the organization in several ways such as the output of the staff and their profit or returns in an organization. The organizational behavior audit also needs to consider some factors that went into the recruitment such as the timing for hiring, sourcing channel, cost of hiring, retention, gender mix etc. All these factors are necessary to evaluate during an organizational behavior audit to ensure we can ascertain if from the time the advertisement was made for the vacancy the time that should pass before the successful candidate starts was within the approved period. It is also necessary to be able to track for where your candidates were sourced from. It is very necessary to source from multiple channels and it should also be