The field of OB contribute to the effective functioning of organizations and the well being of the individual

OB is related to the individual behaviours in organizations, apart from group behaviours and behaviours in organizations. An organization is as good as its working group. An organization needs to grow continuously therefore, there is a need to keep its persons rising through following procedures they are

1. Continuous Learning : The continuous learning in individuals works substantially in the growth of the individuals. There are many ways of learning that helps individuals to grow. Learning can be termed as any permanent change in behaviour or behaviour potential that results from experience. There is need to promote functional behaviour among individuals for effective functioning of organizations, and discourages behaviour that is unfavourable to the organisations. There are different methods of learning and various means through which learning can be converted into desirable behaviour in the individuals.

2. Creating Right Perception: There is need to create right perception among individuals. Perception can be termed as process through which we select, organize and interpret inputs that are supplied to us by our sensory receptors. There are five senses in humans (eyes through sight, ears through audition, nose through smell, mouth or tongue through taste, and skin through touch) and these senses continuously gathers information from the surroundings. It is the perception that gives meaning to the various set of information’s that are gathered through these senses. The study of OB helps in creating right perception that is prime requirement for the efficiently working with people.

3. Building Positive Attitudes and Values: The building of positive attitude and values plays significant role in the growth of individuals. Attitude can be defined as long-lasting evaluation that represents an individual like or dislike for an item, group, or issues. Positive attitudes form an important element in building effective relationships. Values are the fundamental ideas that a definite form of way of survival is individual or social and is preferable to an opposite or adverse form of performing the work. Values are the base of attitudes and behaviour, therefore it is important to discover values in OB.

4. Having Personality and Emotions Compatible at Work Place: Personality is person’s unique and relatively constant model of behaviour, thoughts, and feelings. There is requirement in organisations to generate a right grouping of person and job, in order to utilize full potential of an individual. According to the provisions of the work, qualities can be also developed. Emotions are reactions which are the outcome of subjective cognitive states, physiological reactions, and expressive behaviours. Cognition is the mental behaviour related to the thought, knowledge, and memory. Proper understanding of emotions helps an individual for self-development.

5. Maintaining Stress-free Individuals and Environment: Stress is a self-motivated condition in which an individual is to deal with an opportunity, constraint, or demand related to what he or she needs and for which the result is supposed to be both doubtful and significant. With rising competition and survival, and quality becoming higher and difficult to match, stress is the administrative anxiety of modern era.

6. Keeping Individuals and Teams Motivated and providing Job Satisfaction: Motivation can be explained as the most important indescribable source of the organization. Motivation is an indirect in-house procedure that activates, guides, and maintains behavior over time. Job satisfaction is a universal approach towards one’s job. It also depends on the segregation between the amount of rewards workers receive and the amount they believe they should be given.

Organisations as well as individuals do not exist in isolation. There is constant fluctuation of environmental impact on organisation that helps in stimulating behaviour pattern within the organisation. It is important for organisation to muster flexibility for its long-term existence. The boundaries of organisations are becoming more transparent rather more fragile. Organisations are required to focus on many emerging issues so as to integrate it well with the environmental changes. Some of these are as follows:

Ø  Continuous improvement of people and process.

Ø  Integrating human factor with grand objectives of the organisation.

Ø  More emphasis on quality of products, services, and process.

Ø  Restructuring to suit requirements of service organisations, task force teams, as well as, in case of rightsizing and acquisition and merger.

Ø  Managing diversity.

Ø  Product innovation.

Ø  Managing creativity and innovations.