Organizational behavior- national and organizational culture

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As the author says an organization is a structured social system compound by groups and individuals working together in order to achieve some objectives, it has four components as structure, task, people and technology that helps to get inputs as matrial and capital, and outputs as pruducts and services. In the other hand, an organizational behavior is the study of individual behavior and group dynamics, this provides some tools to learn to analyze, understand and describe different organizations, therefore, organizational behavior has levels as communication, structure and work attitudes.
Also the human behavior has internal factors to understand behavior and the external ones is outside the person. in the context exists the formal organization as a legitimate and official part of the system and the informal one as the unofficial part. Talking  about changes in an organization is very important to take into account the threats and opportunities of those changes if will create crisis, decrease your profits and sales or just create the entrance of new competitors but the organization can success with positive response in the international marketplace using the TQM (total quality management) to improve some aspects or six sigma to apply strategies, in order to fight against the enterprise´s challenge, it has to improve workforces in the context of globalization applying skill and knowledge.

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In terms of organizational culture exists some internal factors that influence decision making as:
resources as staff, technology, plant and financial.
strategies
history
policies

Culture is the the the way that mind can distinguish one person of another, the concept can be learned as we interact with other members, receive rewards, cause and avoid conflict. in the other hand, we have the assumptions that we make about how should we behave known as values and the indicators that motivates behavior  in the group as belief concept and finally the cross-cultural manager needs personal skills to manage a group that is diverse in culture, known as cross cultural and international management, the skills should be associated with:
culture
formuling and implementing plants
recognition and resolving disputes
motivation and rewards systesm
stablishing and implementing formal structure


Also the cultural diversity gives to the company an advantage  due to the capacity to provide opportunities and difficulties to different people and cultures that can offers more benefits. those groups succeed because their cooperation, respect of each other, the ability to exchange alternatives and being tolerant; however, some companies ignore this diversity and therefore they get an inefficient workforce.

QUESTION:
  ¿Why is managing organizational behavior in changing times challenging?

Organizational behavior is managing changing times
because it is an essential factor to the organization to work in the way they are looking for, orginize their workforces and workteams in a formal structure to find greater results and realize which aspects of each person make the company to run in a better way to achieve their goals and create opportunities in the market. Find an ideal organizational behavior brings advantages as work performance, workers integration, acceptance of cultural diversity and learn how to manage some differences between actual behavior in the organization where people are more likely to change, compete and confront anyone. Nowadays, organizations are conformed by people rised in a new era where everyone challenge each other even their owner or manager and where people are more prepared and each day they increase their knowlege.

SOURCES

• http://www.campusexplorer.com/colleges/major/237A2414/Management/94991E52/Organizational-Behavior-Studies/
• http://bm2day.com/page3.htm
• http://www.nhorizons.ca/en-change-culture-change.asp
• Nelson D.L organizational behavior: science, the real world and you. south western college publication 7 edition. chapter 1
• Mead richard 2004. international management: cross-cultural dimensions london: blackwell publishing. chapter 1
• Sin Kit I, organizational behavior presentation