Saturday, 31 August 2019

three Levels of analysis


Organizational behavior is not a study of how organizations behave rather it is a study of the individual working in that organization. This incorporates the investigation of how people carry on alone, just as how people act in groups.
Organizational behavior is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field of study. One of the primary explanations behind this interdisciplinary methodology is because the field of organizational behavior includes different levels of analysis, these are:
  • Individual-level of analysis:
this level involves the study of learning, perception, imagination, inspiration, character, turnover, task execution, etc. in fact this level of organizational behavior depends more on psychology, engineering, and medicine.
  • Group level of analysis:
this level involves how an individual work in groups to innovate something new, finish the given activity within the given deadline and how he leads his team to achieve the given task, etc. this level of organizational behavior depends more upon sociological and socio-psychological sciences.
  • Organizational level of analysis:
This level of analysis involves the study of organizational culture, its structure, social decent variety, between hierarchical participation, and strife change, innovation, and outer ecological powers,
this level of organizational behavior depends on anthropology(the study of humanity) and political science.
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Managing people with addictions

An organization's main motive is to earn profit and to satisfy their customer's requirements which can be only possible if their employees work in sync and with all of their efforts.
But nowadays organizations are facing a difficulty of drug abuse and  alcohol abuse by the workers in the workplace which is directly affecting their ability to work in an organization, some symptoms of the employees that are under the influence of drugs and alcohol are:
  • Absenteeism, particularly absences without notification, or excessive use of sick days.
  • Frequent disappearances from the work site; long, unexplained absences; improbable excuses.
  • Unreliability in keeping appointments and meeting deadlines. etc.
Above given symptoms can be recognized by the employers and then some suitable actions can be taken against such users of the drug so that it doesn't affect  the overall working environment or productivity of others in an organization, 
some of the actions that can be taken by the employers are:
  •  Leave for Treatment of Substance Abuse
  • a return-to-work agreement—instead of termination, etc
sometimes an employee may not be under any substance abuse but still, he/she may be not performing well in an organization such circumstances should not be linked to the substance abuse, such situations can be only identified with a proper face to face discussion with the employee.
once situations are identified and proper actions are taken a healthy work environment can be achieved.

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Disciplines that contribute to organisational behaviour

There are different disciplines that influence our study and understanding of behaviour in organisations. Psychology: The use of this...