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Management Practices and Organisational Behaviour

Notes 4. Motivation: Without motivation, nobody feels like working. Forget about any kind of
effectiveness in work. If there is a low motivation to work, it shall definitely show in the
quality of the output being produced.
To have a higher effectiveness, a higher motivation is required. Various motivation
techniques help an individual to determine his/her behaviour.

5. Stress and well being at work: A stressed individual cannot work up to his maximum
potential. Thus it is needed by him as well as those working with him to ensure his well
being at work. This improves the relationship at the workplace and also the individual
behaviour.
6. Team skills and leadership skills: Since an individual has to work in teams, it is important
for him to be a good team player in order to be productive for the organisation.
Apart from this, an organisation is always looking for personnel who would have leadership
qualities so as to lead themselves as well as the others to deliver good quality and quantity
of the output.
7. Communication: Without effective communication, every individual is known as person
with weak behaviour. So one should take care of all types of communication and various
methods that one uses for communication among teams and across networks.

8. Decision making: Decision-making ability plays a very significant role in determining
and show casing the individual behaviour. This is because the decisions taken by an
individual determine the course of future actions as well as the consequences of the actions
taken.
9. Conflict management: Every organisation is group of individuals. Wherever there is a
diverse group, there are conflicts. If an individual has attributes that can manage conflicts
effectively, it will in turn, definitely improve his behaviour as a worker.

8.7.2 Biographical Characteristics

Biographical characteristics for individual behaviour determination include personal
characteristics such as age, gender, marital status, and other such characteristics.
Ladies are known to be more emotional and hence show more sensitive side at work places.
They get hurt very easily as well.
Professionals with high ages as compared to the average age of the organisation would feel a
little more responsible. In some cases, these people feel a little outcast, in others, such people
often discuss about their ages and productivity.
People who are unmarried/singled are more likely to work late hours as compared to those
who are married since the latter have to rake care of their dependents (especially kids) back
home.

8.8 Personality

When we talk of personality, we don't mean a person who has charm, a positive attitude toward
life, a smiling face, or who has won the "miss world" contest. When psychologists talk of
personality, they mean a dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a person's
whole psychological system. The word 'personality' has interesting etymological origins. It can
be traced to the Latin words "per sonare" which translates as "to speak through". The Latin term
was used to denote the masks worn by actors in ancient Greece and Rome. This Latin meaning
is particularly relevant to the contemporary analysis of personality. Personality traditionally

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