Integrate at least two levels of organisational behaviour analysis - individual, group, and organisation – to demonstrate how they affect each other in the examination of performance as it relates to both Individuals and Organisations and the interrelationship between them.
Performance that is rewarded is the desired outcome of both individuals and organisations.
Individual Performance
Wood et al (2006) state that “managerially speaking, individual attributes must match task requirements to facilitate job performance”. In order to perform an individual must have the capacity, willingness and opportunity. This is often presented as the Performance Equation:
Attributes * Work Effort * Organisational Support = Performance.
The Hawthorne studies looked at the performance of individuals under changing conditions. In changing the lighting conditions at the Hawthorne plant the researchers affected the individuals’ opportunity and capacity to perform. However the performance results can be interpreted as showing that the willingness (effort) of the individuals – influenced by being observed – made up for the decreases in conditions.
Any individual is a combination of their demographic, competency, and personality, and their workplace performance is influenced by both these individual characteristics and their job satisfaction. Demographic characteristics - age, health, hair colour, nationality; competency - aptitude and abilities, which may be cognitive or physical; and personality which combines a set of physical and mental characteristics that reflects how a person looks, thinks, acts and feels; when taken alone are not good indicators of an individual’s capacity to perform.
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