Mar 31, 2011
Posted in Organizational Theory
Organizational change is a development and not demolition
The process of evolution that has created modern human being from Homo sapiens is applicable in organizations as well. Business organizations need radical or slow changes to grow and develop as without change business cannot witness high returns on the product or service it renders. Organizational change helps business concerns to evolve into a better company through momentous changes within its policies, or product design or marketing strategy etc. All too often the transformation of a company through organizational change may put the employees at cross if the employer decides to close off one of its segments. Such negative [...]
Dec 9, 2010
Posted in Money Power, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory, Selling, Team Development
Sales compensation plans are key for businesses
With the new year now around the corner, many business owners will be mulling over what to do with their sales compensation plans. This is something to think long and hard over since it can be such a critical business decision. The best sales compensation plans are a strong motivator to your sales force and it will help you draw the best salesmen, who in turn will get you the best business which in turn means that your bottom line will be the best that it can be. But coming up with the right sales compensation plans are never easy. It is a specialized skill and if you have the right level of expertise, go for it. If you don't, [...]
Jul 6, 2010
Posted in Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory
Rebuilding the Morale of Company Employees
The professional management career is defining a new face for corporate management and sometimes it so happens that our leaders are just not able to understand what is happening and why it is happening. When things turn out to be something else then what actually they might have suggested or thought upon, leader start to lose their confidence and before they even come to terms as to what is happening they start thinking that they are failures. This problem especially arises in an organizations that are purely mismanaged, where people begin to doubt themselves, they feel insecure and inadequate.
It just takes a while to change [...]
May 27, 2010
Posted in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory
Methods of Job Evaluation
Human resource is the most powerful resource of any organization today especially with increasing pressure and the need to get the work done faster. Different organizations might have different means to get work and also having different processes of job assessment, given below are some of the most common methods of jobs evaluation:
The Grading system
The grading system ensures that each job is graded properly from the simple rank order starting from the highest to the lowest one. The committee that comprises of management and also the employee representatives decides this. The committee first compares the 2 jobs to [...]
May 7, 2010
Posted in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory, Team Development
Motivation in the workplace
Motivation is one of the most important factors determining the growth and success of a company. Motivational employees bring in good revenues and production to the company. Most of the highly industrialized companies of the world give much stress on motivation in the workplace and more and more companies are getting into its grind. The power of growth and determination lies in the people working for a company, the more they are motivated the more they can yield you good results. Lots of organizations fail to bring in motivation in the workplace due to varied reasons and the word MOTIVATION keeps lying in the their old books. [...]
Feb 5, 2010
Posted in Organizational Theory
Be Self-Aware, Be Yourself!
“Be yourself”, probably these were the words you had been telling yourself for all these years and nearly tried to make everything possible by being confident on the tasks you had taken up. There had been number of times in my personal experiences, that speaking these two words to yourself, does gives you a mental boost to your brains to achieve your goals and be positive about the outcomes. There is always some sort of fear craving in everyone’s mind when they take up unusual or uncommon things at work but the best you could do is being yourself and getting aware about your strengths and weaknesses. When you know your [...]
Feb 3, 2010
Posted in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory
Organizational Self Awareness
It nearly gets difficult sometimes to take up the right step in a particular direction but again some thought comes up in the mind warning you of any pros or cons and you just start taking step in an altogether different direction. These are just the small potions of life where you involuntarily wander which path to follow, or even if you know the path you still feel doubtful about it. So what’s that “it” factor that keeps stopping us from taking mindful steps in a particular direction? May be the answer to the question is self awareness, this is one of the most prominent things we possess but still are unaware about [...]
Feb 1, 2010
Posted in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory, Team Development
Importance of Team Cohesiveness
Team Cohesiveness plays an important role in an organizational behavior of individuals working in it. Team Cohesiveness is an important factor that binds the members of the team together, an organization cannot think of functioning without the cohesive factor, in-built in to its members, while many organization do try to built up a good cohesive unit. It is the sense of being connected to others based on the emotional needs of an individual and also the urge to get the job done from colleagues or juniors. Generally, an organization’s teams cohesive needs, as an emotional group is bind by a small group size where the members [...]
Jan 20, 2010
Posted in Organizational Theory
Poking your nose into other’s Business!
I just love this idea of sharing business processes with my colleagues and love asking them about their businesses too but most of the time, I have seen people giving me bad remarks behind my back stating an excuse that I was getting too personal in knowing their business methods. Its not out of compulsion that I was asking them their business, nor did I wanted to know their business secrets or how much are they earning per annum its just an enthusiasm I have since as a child knowing about Businesses. Business was a passion for me always and I always get ready to learn something new of somebody else’s business. It becomes [...]
Dec 1, 2009
Posted in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory
Are You An Introvert Or An Extrovert?
Networking basically requires people to be meeting many number of times and if needed traveling together and marketing their products, isn’t it? While some might be big businessmen who have people doing everything for them and yet there are some starters who do everything on their own, so shall we say the later bundle of people are more of an extrovert nature than the big businessmen? Now it all depends on the way they deal with people, perhaps it might be that their position doesn’t allow them to directly deal with people; they might have had loads of hardships in their growing years. A person doesn’t really become an [...]
