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There are lot of challenges and opportunities today for organizations to use Organizational
Behavior (OB) concepts. One of the most important and broad-based challenges facing
becoming more heterogeneous in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity. Understanding the
help them understand what people think, feel and do in organizational settings. It is
essential for all of us as this knowledge helps predict, understand and control
organizational events. The people within the organization and their behaviors affect the
By studying the OB, we become more aware of our business ethics and are able
to positively find ways to transfer our employee's attitudes and behaviors into more
positive experiences personally and for the company. We should realize that being ethical
is good business practice and pays in the long run. To be ethical, it requires treating
others -- customers and employees -- properly and fairly to ensure the establishment
relationships with customers and employees that based on trust. Improvement of the
employee productivity increases when employers treat their employees with more
respect. Second, employees may find that increased ethical behavior on their part actually
relationships with customers. Relationship marketing, which can help a company increase
its profits, requires the cooperation of employees. Employees that perform their jobs
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conscientiously and diligently are frequently rewarded with higher wages. Third, even if
standards and thereby foster trust between a company and its employees.
However, since the access and acquisition of new knowledge continue to expand,
that is critical thinking skills come in to help us examine, evaluate, and apply new
emphasized in Critical Thinking Model, we may then appreciate the values of these skills
in the analysis of OB facts. This combination forms intricate network connections that
produce a deeper understanding of content while offering a thinking platform from which
what people think, feel and do in organizational settings, but also making me more
understanding myself and what I want and pursue in my personal and professional life.
understand what people and even ourselves think, feel and do in every settings. Through
my personal experience, not many people really understand themselves. Some people
spend their days in a frenzy of activity such as wandering and gadding with no actual
direction; while others might keep on looking down themselves with endless complaints
throughout their life. Shameful to say, that I was their group member before. Anyway,
with the understanding of human being and myself, I started to look seriously at my life
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and decided what needed to be done. To be succeed, I have to first know who I am
before I can know what I want and where I want to go. As such, a deep and honest self-
assessment was needed to appraise my position in life, talent, values, potential and
Since then, I made up my mind to look at my life seriously and wanted to improve
myself. I realized that the importance of having a higher education especially we are
living in an era of radical change and even competitive. As such, I decided to take up any
course with a simple purpose that to upgrade myself. I mapped out the strategies needed
to achieve my dream. First, I started to read a lot of motivational materials and English
language books in order to set up the right thoughts and attitude in my mind that it could
succeed. Second, to sharpen my assertive skill, I should learn how to verbally and
without experiencing undue amount of anxiety or guilt and without violating the dignity
of others as well as requesting that another person change an offensive behavior and not
uncomfortable refusing unreasonable request from someone else. For example, I would
try to enhance my eye contact when communicating with others to express my sincerity
and self-confidence; use selective inattention to ignore any comments from others that
contain abusive remarks; do not answer abusive questions, refute charges and so on. At
the same time, I understood that health is the key of lives, so I went gym and took care of
my diet to maintain a healthy physical. All these self-examination and preparations took
me about one year before I took up the ADBIT (Advanced Diploma in Business and
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road to success; they included my fear, disappointments, negative attitude and lack of
proper management of time. Nevertheless, my early preparations brought its effects here;
the embedded faith, persistence, and patience created a burning desire motivating me to
continue and tried again. Obstacles can stimulate the best out of any person if we react
Besides, the concepts of OB help me to understand and aware what I want and
pursue in my professional life. For example, Herzberg’s two-factor model arouse a sense
of awareness in me for what factor that is most motivating me in my work. From there, I
understand that people would strive to achieve hygiene needs because they are unhappy
without them, but once satisfied the effect soon wear off and the satisfaction is temporary.
In contrast, the motivator factors are based on an individual's need for personal growth.
When they exist, motivator factors actively create job satisfaction. If they are effective,
then they can motivate an individual to achieve above-average performance and effort.
Hence, working as an executive personnel in Casino de Genting operation for the past 7
years, I find that the work itself that most motivating me. As my daily job function in the
casino is only supervising my staffs and handling those disputes related to gambling and I
find that it is a quite dull routine job and I don’t find myself get improved. Therefore, my
experience suggests that motivation comes from the motivator factors, i.e. job content
and it is absolutely true that “ if you want people to do a good job for you, then you
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factors. However, What's a good job actually look like? Or in other words, what are the
characteristics of motivating jobs. In my opinion, there are five key characteristics could
be used to describe the motivating potential of a job. These characteristics are skill
variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. The characteristics of
skill variety, task identity, and task significance all serve to account for a sense of
"meaningfulness" and a job with autonomy serves to give the jobholder a sense of
responsibility, while feedback satisfies the need for knowledge. Jobs scoring high in
terms of a combination of these five characteristics resulted in higher job satisfaction and
productivity than jobs scoring low. For a job to be intrinsically motivating, all five
“good job” also embraces other motivator factors such as achievement, recognition,
responsibility and advancement so that the employees regardless of their position in the
organizational hierarchy would perform at a high level, are satisfied with their jobs, and
lovers, spouse, and children--- as well as ineffectiveness at work. The OB concepts and
application provide a fundamental base on me that one thing certain about our method
and style of communication: they are primarily learned responses. Thus, in realizing
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these, I can change to sharpen my listening skill, assertive skill and conflict management
skill.
In fact, we spend more time listening than anything else we do in our waking
hours and our ability to listen directly influences our friendships, our family relationship
and our effectiveness at work. Therefore, undoubtedly, I should seek the best alternative
that I could respond reflectively to what the speaker is saying as well as detecting the
unnecessary conflicts.
Anyhow, with right concepts of OB, I am able to correct myself that as long as
inevitable aspect of work teams. Conflict is not always negative. In fact, it can be healthy
when effectively managed. Healthy conflict can lead to growth, innovation, new ways of
• Select the solution that will best meet both parties’ needs (after having checked out
possible consequences).
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• Evaluate and monitor the conflict-solving process and how well the solutions turned
out.
All these improve my knowledge of conflict resolution method that help me learn
from the fight and also learn how to fight more productively the next time. Besides, it
make me enjoy placing high value on logic, ideas, and systematic inquiry, and I find
them carefully, and testing them to see to it that the most logical systematic approach is
followed.
Understanding different types of people and possible ways to deal with them
allows us to select the leadership style and methods most appropriate to their situation.
The leadership style in today business environments that illustrated in OB syllabus have
always make changes and inspire the followers to transform potential into reality.
Managers run organization, and they tend to institutionalize the so-called “status quo”.
Effective leadership is imperative for molding a group of people into a team, shaping
them into a force that serves as a competitive business advantage. Leader know how to
make people function in a collaborative fashion, and how to motivate them to excel their
performance as well as how to balance the individual team member's quest with the goal
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To be an effective leader, I can conclude that he or she must possess the following
characteristics: -
• Gives direction, sets an example, and shares risks or hardship on an equal footing.
• Listen with understanding; willing to discuss and solve problem, open to ideas;
• Supports and helps; backs you up; is on your side; remembers your problem.
• Uses team approach; helps group reach better decisions; facilitates cooperation.
• Avoids close supervision; does not overboss; does not dictate or rule by the book.
• Communicates openly and honestly; tells you what he thinks; you can trust what
he says.
• Brings out best in his men; has common touch with the workers.
In conclusion, all the above mention issues must receive careful consideration and
perform at full potential, and reward workers for performance. Also, environmental
factors are increasing the need for effective leadership in today's workplace, in order to
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better motivate, guide, and direct employee teams, we require specific skills and expertise