How Internal and External Forces Affect Organization Behavior Report (Assessment)

Introduction

The discipline of organization behavior is concerned with discovering and supervising actions of individuals and group in regard to how such people join or remain in groups, how employee can work effectively, and how to make employees become more productive (Schermerhorn, Hunt and Osborn, 2008).In a business, there are factors that impact the performance of any organization; these factors are events and situations which contact the business in diverse ways. Such factors are referred as environmental factors or driving factors; driving factors can be subdivided into two categories; internal and external driving factors (Schermerhorn et al, 2008).

Discussion

Internal and external factors usually affect employee’s behavior. Just to name a few, internal factors may include leadership, organization’s culture and organization structure while external factors may include family issues or business relationship among other factors (Robbins and Judge, 2009).Leadership has a role in regard to organization’s activities, if employee are entrusted with leadership position in an organization; it will always motivate them to be more productive and this also improves the output in an organization (Robbins and Judge, 2009).Organization structure is a system that’s governs, brings together and inspires employees to attain the goals of an organization. Organizations structure includes set policies, organization’s expectations and organization’s procedures (Schermerhorn et al, 2008).If the organization structure is friendly, then it is very easy for employees to become organized and hence perform better. On the other hand, if the organization structure is not friendly to the employees, then employees can not attain their full potential and this affects production of any organization.The third internal aspect is the factor of corporate culture. Organization’s norm makes up organization culture. Organization’s culture may include; customer services, flexible working hours, friendly working environment and so forth (Robbins and Judge, 2009).If an organization culture is attractive, this encourages more customers and employees become productive.

However, if the corporate culture is not appealing, the organization might not attract customers or investors, and employees may not maximize their effort.Alternatively, external driving factors such as family issues can have direct impact to the organizational behavior. For example, if an employee is having a family crisis; this can affect employee’s behavior at workplace and work performance.Conversely, if an employee is not having family issues, such a situation can also contribute to improved performance of an employee at work. Moreover, business relationship is also another external aspect that can affect organization behavior.For instance, if an employee is working for a certain organization that has other partnership companies , the situation may affect employee’s performance due to different levels of expectations (Robbins and Judge, 2009). If the partnership companies have high demands, employees will be engaged to meet the business expectations and this will directly affect the organization behavior.Internal and external factors affect the organization behavior in diverse ways. As such, when employees become affected, the management system in an organization is also affected. Majorly, there at least four chief functions of a management system in an organization and when they are combined in a balanced ratio, an organization becomes successful in areas of planning, organization, controlling and directing (Schermerhorn et al, 2008).However, a breach of employee’s behavior especially the manager and his staff may adversely contribute to positive or negative performance and hence increase or reduction in organization’s output.

Conclusion

In conclusion, it is evident that, internal and external driving factors can impact an organization behavior positively or negatively. Some factors may contribute to increased production while others may contribute to reduced production. The opinion is that, the company management should at least manage internal factors since it is within its control so as to boost employee’s potential.

Reference

Schermerhorn, J., Hunt, J., & Osborn, R., (2008). Organizational Behavior, 10th Edn. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Robbins, S. & Judge, T. (2009). Organizational Behavior, 13th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.