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Organizational Behavior Plans
The behavior patterns and beliefs that shape an organization's culture have the profound ability to enable or prevent the company from achieving its strategic objectives. By becoming clear about the kind of culture that supports the organization's vision and business strategy, the organization will have the ability to target culture change efforts in order to align its organization's culture to achieve strategic success. The influence of ethics on decision-making, as well as focus on the impact of technology on work-related stress plays a large roll. The values, beliefs, and norms expressed in an organization's actual practices and behavior may be different from what the business strives to be as an organization, and what values it hopes for. Globalization, diversity, being flexible, flat, and networking are all different trends that are part of the ever-changing organizations of today. Increasingly globalized sales, manufacturing, research, management, movement from direct exports to having sales offices in different countries to having manufacturing to all functions spread across the globe, increasingly globalized labor market are all reasons more businesses are becoming more globalized. Diversity covers areas such as workforce getting more heterogeneous sexually, racially, culturally, and individually. Being flexible in an organization is to allow processes and people respond differently to different situations, fewer detailed rules and procedures, encouragement for initiative, lifetime employability, not lifetime employment. When an organization is flat it operates with fewer levels of management, workers that are empowered t ...