Deliverable 7 - Reorganization

NoJax Organizational Behavior Analysis

Question 1

The micro organizational behavior focuses mainly upon the habits of a specific person. One observation I have made on NoJax Company employee profile is that they have a wide array of habits for their employees. These workers are all from different cultures thus exhibit different behaviors in the company.

I also noticed that NoJax has a lack of male employees filling positions. Out of all their employees Orlando Grant is the only male. I believe this can have a negative effect on the company as it may indicate some gender bias, discrimination, and can lead to an increase of employee turnover (Lo, et.al, 2017). More males in this situation can help to increase their performance by creating more diversity. They could put ads out to target males directly to increase the male presence within their employees.

Question 2

An observation made on the meso level of NoJax company’s employee profile is that they have a great mix of personality within their employees. This is positive as it sets the scene for positive group cohesion. As if all employees had the same personality they would not be able to produce good quality work output. For example, a group that may work together could be Orlando Grant, who is the Research and Development Department Manager, and Alice Bloom who is the Design Manager. Alice has a very outgoing extraversion type of personality, but is not very open. She also has a medium level of conscientiousness, and is not very agreeable. While on the other side Orlando is also has a high extraversion level, is not very conscientious, and is somewhat agreeable. He is also very open about things.

Question 3

According to macro organizational approaches, the entire NoJax Company ought to have a roaster on what contingencies they follow, the strategies they aim at as well as how they adapt to them. In this case, they should also make it more clear as to how you can move up these rankings and what is needed to be done so that employees understand better how job performance can affect this incentive of a raise. Two macro factors that influence NoJax company include legal factors, that is, dealing with the government and taxes. Secondly, there are the technological changes. For the company to get ahead in the macro world, they ought to ensure that they stay ahead technologically.

One policy observation that was made that can have a negative effect on NoJax company is that they give out raises based on ranking. Giving the top workers up to 6% raise and the bottom employees no raise. To create a more positive organizational behavior I believe that this needs to change as it is hard to be successful when employees see only certain groups of employees receiving benefits. Putting special efforts in to highlight employees and their performances (Parks-Leduc, et.al, 2015).

Question 4

After viewing NoJax Inc. I would say that the company has a medium dissimilarity level. I believe that this level can have a negative impact on the business if not changed. This conclusion was decided upon based on the diversity of the company on multiple levels such as micro, meso, and macro levels of behavioral organization (Ghobadi & Mathiassen, 2016). NoJax does a great job with having diversity within the ethnicity and education of employees which helps to give their business a well-rounded group of minds. Although, they do not have much diversity of gender, and their policies and company structure could be improved upon to create a more open, and communication friendly organization for their new employees. Making changes such as implementing policies open communication, discrimination, as well as being open about how employees can advance and succeed I believe will help to improve the organizations behavior. As well as adding more gender diversity to NoJax.

References

Ghobadi, S., & Mathiassen, L. (2016). Perceived barriers to effective knowledge sharing in agile software teams. Information Systems Journal, 26(2), 95-125.

Lo, M. T., Hinds, D. A., Tung, J. Y., Franz, C., Fan, C. C., Wang, Y., ... & Sanyal, N. (2017). Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders. Nature genetics, 49(1), 152.

Parks-Leduc, L., Feldman, G., & Bardi, A. (2015). Personality traits and personal values: A meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(1), 3-29.