Introduction Every organization wants to avoid employing half-hearted employees, but even the most motivated person can feel down and dissatisfied. The motivation issue is one of the main problems in the organizational setting. No wonder, this is one of the most frequently researched topics in organizational behavior (Robbins & Judge, […]
Tag: organizational theory and behavior
Defining Work-Life Balance: Challenges and Insights
Definition Defining Work-Life Balance (WLB) is perhaps as easy and as difficult as defining love. All of us have a glimpse of what it feels like, but all can have a different view on experiencing it. Shankar & Bhatnagar (2010) wrote that the literature on this topic is enormous, but […]
Benefits of Pertinent Negative in Organizational Setting
A pertinent negative is a term usually used in a medical situation, in which medical personnel makes documentation about things that have been checked from a patient but the patient doesn’t have it. In medical documentation, usually, the personnel has to write in detail about the things that have been […]
Stereotype, Selective perception, and Halo effect
Introduction Our brain usually creates a shortcut based on our prior understanding and experiences that enable us to make a quick judgment on a situation or a person. Unfortunately, the shortcut is very prone to inaccuracies and distortions. Among the distortions are stereotype, selective perception, and halo effect. This article […]
Employee Perception and How to Manage It
People’s behavior in an organization setting is a crucial study as it can decide the fortune of the organization. Robbins and Judge (2017) stated that the behavior is based on their perception of what reality is, not on reality itself. This might be the concept behind the saying that “perception […]
Four Theoretical Contributions to Organizational Theory
Introduction The history of organizations perhaps can be traced back to the early days of humanity. Every time a group of people faces an enormous task that is too big to be handled by one person, an organization may be born along with the management process. However, the urgency to […]
Hawthorne Experiment, The Controversy and The Relevance for Todays Managers
No one could predict when straightforward research about the relationship between the physical environment and workers’ productivity would become one of the most influential works in industrial psychology. The Hawthorne Experiment, which took place at the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Plant from 1924 to 1933, concluded nothing about the relationship […]