Challenges and

Opportunities for
Organizational Behaviors
EDWIN B.R. GBARGAYE
DM-217
DISCUSSANT/NARRATOR/
FACILITATOR
 Challenges Opportunities

• Globalization -need to understand

global competition different cultures:
develop new behaviors

• Advanced Information -impact on org’n

Technology structure: how to
knowledge creation and design individual jobs:
sharing reengineering;
benchmarking
 Challenges Opportunities
• Continuous innovation -change in what and
and change how we learn:
resistance to change stimulating creativity;
retraining

• Customer satisfaction -including employees

quality products and in planning changes
services

• Time pressures: tough -helping employees

competition sort out ethical
cutting corners: ethical ambiguous situations
dilemmas
 Challenges Opportunities

• Employee -giving up and taking

empowerment responsibility

• Balancing work -designing work places

life conflicts: and jobs
stress

• Declining -motivating workers

employee loyalty
 Challenges Opportunities

• Temporariness: -learning to live with

short-term stability unpredictability

• Work diversity -recognizing and

background; gender; addressing individual
age; inclination; differences to ensure
lifestyles; values; productivity; creativity;
ethnicity; culture; work innovation and
styles; family needs; retention
personal goals