Final Project Paper. Organizational Behavior and Leadership

Organizational Behavior and Leadership
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Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Introduction
The global business competition creates complexities for the leaders to attain a sustainable position among strong rivals without having a healthy organizational culture. According to the research of Al-Sada, Al-Esmael and Faizal (2017), the inspiring organizational culture embraces positive organizational behavior that motivates employees to show high performance, adopt innovation and show great productivity to attain corporate goals. In this way, organizational behavior management is the key to success and attain a competitive edge over other rivals. Furthermore, leaders play a potential role to direct people's behavior in the firm and consistently encourage them to show high-level productivity in accomplishing the desired goals (Dutta & Khatri, 2017). Correspondingly, leadership has an extravagant influence on people, organizational culture, technology and business structure of the firm that builds loud organizational behavior.
Understanding organizational behavior is crucial for leaders to adopt changes in the workplace, manage the employees' performance with powerful motivators and boost an organization's credibility by building reliable and trustworthy relationships with employees. Therefore, the research evaluates the organizational behavior concerning leadership role to modify business practice. It further applies the concepts of the organizational behavior course and its learning on the real corporate experience at Walmart for progressing business interactions and prolific outcomes in the future.
Discussion
In contemporary organizations, leaders are responsive to the management of organizational behavior because it directs people to adopt substantial values and attitude in the firm for achieving the defined goals remarkably. As per the study of Aithal and Kumar (2016), managing organizational behavior productively supports the leader to motivate employees, perform exceptionally to resolve complex issues, optimize organizational activities, monitor and control employees' behavior as per the organizational changes. Accordingly, leaders need to invest smoothly on maintaining organizational behavior to create a better business environment for standing out among rivals. Thereby, effective leadership, as well as actual organizational behavior, are pivotal for improving business performance and empowering strategy execution.
Reflection on my Working Experience at Walmart
Before learning the course of organizational behavior, I worked in Walmart as the sales team member where I have the responsibilities to achieve a targeted sale, limit team conflicts, maintain good interaction with customers, follow organizational culture, manage behavior and report to the sales leader about the overall performance of the team. I faced various challenges during the particular period because the company followed the tall and functional organizational structure, where the authority lies among the executive bodies to make any change in the corporate approaches. However, leaders adopt autocratic and democratic leadership style, which less likely to involve employees in decision-making and limit employee engagement at the workplace.
The primary concern of the company is to focus on the four factors; offer high value to customers, enhance business transparency and integrity, struggle for excellence and maintain respect for each other (Reich & Bearman, 2018). Henceforth, those values boost positive organizational behavior in the corporate environment and encourage employees to perform exceptionally in availing high compensation and benefits from the escalated productivity. After working for six months, I left the job because I found the leader coercive and autocratic, who commands us to follow his instructions without sharing our opinion to boost team sales.
The reason behind the respective decision was the skills gap for a particular job. Hence, I was not right in communication, decision-making, leadership, conflict management and problem-solving skills that further make me non-compatible for that job to show high performance. Along with it, the lack of engagement demotivated me to continue my job there. At that time, I have not understood the value of productive organizational behavior and effective leadership on employees. On the other side, enrolling the organizational behavior course offers ultimate opportunities to grow my career in the business sector with a strong understanding of the core concepts related to leadership with practical cases.
Organizational Behavior and Leadership
By considering the experience at Walmart and the course understanding, the most significant concept is to create practical leadership skills by adopting the situational leadership style. As per the study of Wright (2017), the situational leadership style is potential for leaders in the modern epoch to handle various problems by adopting various leadership approaches. Furthermore, transformational leadership style is unique in the case of influencing employees to perform better and adopt change exceptionally. At this moment, strong leadership is vital for business growth and sustainability because it supports the firm in retaining employees by motivating them and involving them in the organizational decisions and to assure them high value like customers for managing the organizational behavior as well.
The other contribution of effective leadership is to boost innovative culture to be creative in dealing with emerge ng issues in the internal and external environment such as changing consumer preferences, augmenting corporate technology and severe competition in the business arena (Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn & Osborn, 2014). In this manner, leadership is an integral part of organizational behavior that fosters business growth. Maintaining organizational behavior is essential for creating a business reputation in the competitive environment which can be possible only with effective leadership. Thus, leaders are the one that shapes business values, culture, people attitude, control operational activities, define organizational goals, set a target and develop morale among employees for perform...