Organizational Behavior Reflective Report

The course “Organisation Behaviour” has largely been a course of easy, pleasant learning and self-realisations. In this very hectic schedule of the second term, every OB lecture is something that a student to wait for, where in one can momentarily reflect and look into their self and learn as to what one can do about it.

I have documented such experiences below:

Perception

Perception is the interpretation of sensory information so as to understand the environment. It lies in the eyes of the beholder. The humans derive logical interpretations of any and everything they come across. The perceptual systems of the brain makes us understand the people around us as stable, even though the sensory information is typically incomplete and rapidly varying.

It is more about the thought process and psychological behaviour. It deals in how people carry themselves, think of themselves and view others. We also came across the Indian perspective of personality. There are various kinds of personality types like Sattvik Guna (spiritual quality), the Rajasic Guna (active quality) and the Tamasic Guna (material quality), and as, managers, one has to take care of these. Indian tradition explained in Ayurveda and the other ancient Indian scriptures placed heavy emphasis on the physical and psychological aspects of corollary of Triguna. The manifestations of attributes are synthesized across these constructs. Knowledge of these constructs can be used to promote mental

I am no exception. For the initial few years, post engineering, I worked for a top IT firm. My work profile was decent and liked my job. However going along the path, I found myself surrounded by the exceedingly high expectations. Every good performance would in turn would ask for better performance next time. I enjoyed every bit of, but somehow, at time I would feel lost. And I would ponder as to where am I going with life. And after much introspection I would realise that I need a shift, not industry wise, but job profile wise. As a software engineer, one tends to see and do things how they are told to. The hierarchy is long and one reaches the desired level after