Personality, perception and attribution + attitudes and values

Influence of manager’s expectation and behavior on targets, employees through organization.

Positive expectation not always enhance the target’s performance, perceiver’s thoughts affect their own behavior and also the target’s expectation and behavior. 

For that manager’s values, belief and attitudes would really influence the subordinates’ behavior.

Depends on manager’s leadership, trait, skills and management style, workers would increase or decrease their motivation to accomplish goals, basically leader’s behavior inspired followers’ behavior in order to improve organizational performance.

Based on the “Pygmalion effect” made to aid workers, it is demonstrated that negative perceptions and behaviors towards local staff is presented, this is due to the aid workers high expectations, those which clearly crashed to frustration produced from the local environment and realizing that local counterparts do not have the same commitment.

Thus, this indicates that constant positive perception is a very important thing for successful management of people and organization operations. Besides the mental health is a huge value to have into account, because a healthy mind produces excellent working results.

According to the RBV theory, a firm that controls resources and capabilities can sustain its competitive advantage. However those two factors contain more different ranges of values, like intellectual capital, that is intangible assets.

As an illustration, resources are any production factors that are ready for the company, so that resources are independent, simple and static which is easy to identify them. Unlike that, capabilities are routines or a set of interacting routines which require social interactions, for that they are collective, complex and dynamic, due to these characteristics through their use they can be improved, because of their dynamic character.

Understand intellectual capital have become a huge problems for companies, despite it is a main task to care about, it is a intangible resource, whereby its identification, measurement and sometimes how it can be apply for the good of the organization.

Question 

What is your perception of a Japanese aid worker before and after the talk with Yasuko? On what do you base your perception?

I must admit I did not have a previous background of many aid workers, perhaps I have placed those people in a stereotyping pattern, basically because you can think that they do aid work to help and enhance needy ones lives and only that purpose, but after the talk, I could realize that the this kind of job requires more than just passion and attitude, Yasuko told us some experiences that I might not wonder or could imagine before this, all the traveling, new knowledge opportunities, the chance to reach pretty different cultures and manners, and most relevant: a life project.

1) Image took from: http://mooreslore.corante.com

2) Short terms values. Retrieved from: http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/06/02/short_term_values.php

3) Pygmalion effect definition: http://www.envisionsoftware.com/articles/Pygmalion_Effect.html

 

Organizational behavior + national and organizational culture

Organizational behavior is individual behavior and group interactions, besides it concerns about psychosocial, interpersonal and behavioral dynamics in organizations.

Two perspectives to understand human behavior: the internal one that is based on personal value system, referring to people are best understood from the inside, and their behavior is the mirror of thoughts, feelings, perceiving and judging.

The external perspective is based on factors outside the person, which means people are best understood by explaining the surrounding events and environmental forces. To sum up behavior is a function of person and environment.

It must be taken into account the human behavior and organizational context in order to grasp organizational behavior as a whole.

Organizations count with four main internal components:

- Task: Mission, vision, purpose or goal for existing of the organization.

-  People: are the human resources of the organization.

- Technology: are the wide range of tools, knowledge and techniques used to transform the inputs into outputs.

- Structure: It is the systems of communication, the systems of authority and the systems of workflow

Besides, the organization as a system also has external tasks such as suppliers, customers and federal regulations.

Within the organization there is the formal organization which is the official, legitimate, and most visible part that enables people to think of organizations in logical and rational ways, and the informal organization is unofficial and less visible, it related to individuals of the organization.

The changes bring risk and opportunities for the structure, so that manager must be aware of globalization, workforce diversity and ethics 

Culture influences in a organization: decision making, communications and structures  and relationships; however culture is the main factor, because exist other internal factors such as the organizational strategy and the personality of the chief executive officer (CEO) and the external like markets, competition, economic conditions, among others that could be more important that culture.

Culture is a set of values and the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another, based on that CEO’s can make predictions and identify uniformity of behavior of the certain group, moreover this forecast is not reliable due to it does not include environment, economic and others.

Question

Why is managing organizational behavior in changing times challenging?

It is a challenge or difficult to handle, because there many factors that affect the way a manager could lead an organization, not only one country issues such as culture of manners, values and beliefs but also what came from abroad, the globalization process really influences how organization dynamics should be done, it is important the worldwide competition, however the new updated methods to meet a sustainable and competitive staff must be consider in order to improve every day.

1) image took from: www.incculture.com 

2) image took from: http://blog.broadcastengineering.com

3) video took from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZpcuA105c
4) Organizational behavior. retrieved from:http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/management/Ob-Or/Organizational-Behavior.html