WPM refers to intellectual and emotional involvement of the workers in solving different issues of the organization. In WPM, if the union members keep themselves busy with only wages and job conditions of the workers, they may be deprived of the main strategic issues of the organization. In a recent visit at the Haldia Dock Complex (23-24.2.05), I find that union leaders talk about productivity and quality of the organization. It is amazing to me when I find that one leader opposes overtime for the workers.
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Saturday, February 26, 2005
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Is OB useful in Trade union understanding ?
I have been thinking very deeply for few days that whether principles of OB are applicable in TU or not ? Finally, I find that if we consider TU as a tool for only collective bargaining, very few principles of OB may work here. In that case we can limit our understanding on basic concept of leadership, work motivation etc. But to me TU can not be considered in terms of power metaphor it is more than that. Can we consider it as open system like the biological system ?
Monday, January 31, 2005
What is Organizational Behaviour ?
DEFINITION OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
It is the field of study to describe, to predict and to control the behaviour of individual, group and organization.
Individual Characteristics
1. Personality (Introversion- Extraversion) Locus of control, Authoritarian personality, Type A and type B personality, self-efficacy)
2. Need hierarchy
3. Intelligence
4. Aptitude (Manual dexterity, Numeric ability, Spatial ability, Verbal ability)
5. Perception (Attention, perceptual organization) of others (stereotype, Halo effect)
6. Attitude (beliefs, values, feelings about particular object)
7. Memory (STM, LTM)
8. Learning (Conditioning, Trial and error, Insight)
Behavioural processes of Individual Characteristics in context of Organization
1. Job Satisfaction
2. Work motivation and Job characteristics
3. Employee turnover
4. Employee absenteeism
5. Accident
6. Organizational commitment
7. Individual decision making
8. Job stress (role underload, overload, role ambiguity
GROUP BEHAVIOUR
Group Characteristics
1. Types (Formal and Informal )
2. Group structure
3. Group norm
4. Group cohesiveness
5. Group decision making
Behavioural Processes
1. Team working
2. Power
3. Leadership
4. Inter group conflict
ORGANIZATION’S BEHAVIOUR
Characteristics
1. Goals
2. Structure (Centralization, specialization, formalization, standardization)
Processes
1. Organizational cultures
2. Organizational climate
3. Organizational health
It is the field of study to describe, to predict and to control the behaviour of individual, group and organization.
Individual Characteristics
1. Personality (Introversion- Extraversion) Locus of control, Authoritarian personality, Type A and type B personality, self-efficacy)
2. Need hierarchy
3. Intelligence
4. Aptitude (Manual dexterity, Numeric ability, Spatial ability, Verbal ability)
5. Perception (Attention, perceptual organization) of others (stereotype, Halo effect)
6. Attitude (beliefs, values, feelings about particular object)
7. Memory (STM, LTM)
8. Learning (Conditioning, Trial and error, Insight)
Behavioural processes of Individual Characteristics in context of Organization
1. Job Satisfaction
2. Work motivation and Job characteristics
3. Employee turnover
4. Employee absenteeism
5. Accident
6. Organizational commitment
7. Individual decision making
8. Job stress (role underload, overload, role ambiguity
GROUP BEHAVIOUR
Group Characteristics
1. Types (Formal and Informal )
2. Group structure
3. Group norm
4. Group cohesiveness
5. Group decision making
Behavioural Processes
1. Team working
2. Power
3. Leadership
4. Inter group conflict
ORGANIZATION’S BEHAVIOUR
Characteristics
1. Goals
2. Structure (Centralization, specialization, formalization, standardization)
Processes
1. Organizational cultures
2. Organizational climate
3. Organizational health
Objectives and Problems of trade union
OBJECTIVES OF TRADE UNION
1. To improve the wages
2. To safeguard and improve the standards of working people
3. To campaign for laws and policies which will benefit working people.
PROBLEMS OF TRADE UNION
1) Sectionalism,
2) Competition for members,
3) Demarcation of work, and
4) Lack of a coordinated policy.
1. To improve the wages
2. To safeguard and improve the standards of working people
3. To campaign for laws and policies which will benefit working people.
PROBLEMS OF TRADE UNION
1) Sectionalism,
2) Competition for members,
3) Demarcation of work, and
4) Lack of a coordinated policy.
Trade union is at stake
Trade union leaders are working in the formal organized sectors. But gradually, this formal organized sectors are reducing. Due to economic transformation, commercial organizations are moving from domestic marketing to global marketing to transnational marketing. For this reason, more informal sectors are supposed to grow. At this juncture, what will be role of trade Union as there will be less number of organized sectors ?
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