Organizational Behavior Analysis – An OverviewThe necessary tools that are required by managers to be more effective are provided to them by organizational behavior analysis. Behavioral analysis teaches them to develop more effective interpersonal relationships. Those supervisors and managers, who understand and apply the basic organizational behavior concepts of reinforcement, are liked more by their peers and employees. Their teams also tend to be high performing and more efficient. The conceptualization of analysis of behavior might seem to be simple, but the fact is that the application of these concepts is extremely difficult to handle.
It is not sufficient just to know or understand these concepts. Application is the key. Only those managers, who make sure they create an environment in which their employees either feel that they have to perform with excellence, or else they only care about meeting the minimum targets or work requirements in order to retain their jobs, are able to become effective. Organizational behavior analysis enables managers to achieve a far more positive environment for work. Managers learn how to effectively define behavior operationally. They also learn how to monitor the performance of the work process. After being trained, managers are also able to learn from past consequences to support commendable performance from employees in future. They also become competent so as to remove behavioral barriers. Behavior can be defined as a function of the immediate environment in which it occurs as well as a history of learning, which includes aspects of that environment. All the concepts of behavior analysis are based on these understandings. Often, managers view behavior as a part of motivation, personality and other internal habits rather than regarding it as a function of the workplace environment. This workplace environment also includes management systems, leadership practices, the physical environment, and the social environment. The physical and social environments also incorporate the tools and facilities of the workplace. The problem often faced is to get managers to understand the difference between the effort that has to be made to change someones behavior and that made to change the personality of someone. Most managers do not make the distinction. A common assumption of leadership is to change the person and thus be able to achieve the required change in performance. Managements and employers often believe that the primary cause, of most problems that arise about performance of employees, is related to who they are, that is, their personality, instead of what they do, namely their behavior. However, an understanding of organizational behavior analysis teaches managers the components of the experimental principles of behavior such as punishment, generalization, reinforcement, and stimulus control that are necessary for the successful application of behavioral analysis to the problems in an organization. |