Organizational Behavior
8-12 page paper
5 References: 3 scholarly journals sources and 2 other sources
Choose an organizational situation (group or team or committee) in which you have played a part. Decide which organizational dynamic of that situation you would like to include in your paper.
Examples of groups you might consider for this assignment:
• Church groups
• Sports teams
• A group that you participated in for a school, work, or other special project
• Neighborhood groups or organizations
• Ad-hoc committees
• Board memberships
• Clubs
Structure and organize your ideas and support your hypothesis/predictions and inferences with
research, data evidence, or logical conclusions based on evidence.
• Identify themes from your notes, your Organizational Behavior materials, and research
literature you may want to include.
• Write an objective narrative of what you recall about the group and situation from beginning to
end.
• Develop an outline for your paper.
• Make the connection between the dynamics of your specific situation and the organizational
dynamics framework.
• Clarify and articulate how the main theories and concepts of organizational behavior apply to an organizational setting.
• Use the questions below to guide your analysis.
Questions for guidance:
• How does the organization handle, manage, or act on change?
• What kinds of behaviors are rewarded in the organization?
• How does work (really) get accomplished? If workarounds are present, why?
• Does the organization agree on the purpose or mission? Why or why not?
• How does the organization deal with chaos and ambiguity?
• What are the roles that individuals take?
• How does the organization manage change? Resistance?
• What motivates the organization to perform?
• Does the organization have more concern for getting work done or how people are feeling or
doing? Why?
• How would you describe the working relations of the employers in the organization?
