10th Dec'2012
Session 1: Introduction to the field of organizational behaviour
Reflection : Even after working in Information Technology MNC's for almost four years, I never realised that organizational behaviour plays such a pivotal role in the survival of an organization and its employees.
I got to know about how both the entities: organization and employee are interdependent and their survival depends on an important factor called Organizational Behaviour. I understood that to get a bird's eye view about any organization, first I need to understand about the organizational behaviour. Organization is a complex open system that depends on external environment for effective functioning. I believe that the intellectual capital is definitely a valuable asset and its sharing can be a growth factor for organization. For an effective management, we need to go through planning, organizing, leading and controlling aspects of a job in hand. Management and leadership must be important traits for a manager to enable team and organization to achieve more than just task completion. I need to develop soft skills and hard skills in a proper ratio i.e. conceptual, human and technical skills to be an effective manager in future. Also learnt how important are values and ethics to an organization and about its responsibility towards the society (CSR). Understood the fact that more globalization and increasing workforce diversity has changed the structure of corporate world and information technology has impacted the way the organizations used to work. I was amazed to know that effective manager need not be a successful manager (important lesson learnt) but relative combination of both will be ideal. I agree with BCG's report on worldwide challenges 2015 that a manager is and will be expected to manage much more than just a project. I have
