How thinking and perception affect organizational behavior.
The way people interact in an organization is very crucial and it may affect the productivity of the organization. This interaction is known as organizational behavior. Successful organizations can effectively utilize their employee’s energy and talents (Heil, Stephens, and Bennis, 2000). Employees are very important for the success of an organization and therefore organization managers should ensure that they interact well with the employees. The understanding of humans and how they behave in an organization is dependent on thinking and perception and thinking in a different situation (Hargadon and Barr, 2005).
Human behavior is mostly affected by thinking particularly meaning creation and cognition. Human thinking is tied to human behavior, so it is not possible to understand behavior alone without linking it to thinking, attributes, and assumption of situations that result in the consequences of certain behavior. The process of thinking, arranging information orderly to deduce meaning is known as cognition. The study of thinking shows that the thinking process shows that perception, social cues, and perception are very important.
Thinking creates biases in creating meaning to information and processing information in communication. It also sets the learning stage in the capacity of the human to respond to new thinking and acting ways. From studying thinking, managers are taught how to deal with low information processing capacity in humans which causes them to seek shortcuts. The perception of the world determines how individuals act. Human engagement in their daily activities around them is based on the application of pre-existing information structures that guide their interpretation and perception of information and events (Taylor and Fiske, 1984).
Management should create an understanding for all members of an organization. Understanding thinking grows an understanding in an organization that facilitates the growth of information driven knowledge economy (Barr, Huff and Huff, 2000). Understanding the effect of thinking on organizational behavior is important for a health manager in his interaction, decision making, team work, and action-taking. The ability of a person to comprehend situations or attitudes, behavior, and attribution are all determined by perception. Perception involves selecting, noticing, and information organization to allow a response. How people view situations strongly affects their response and action to situations. Managers should have skills to provoke thoughts in a way that members of the organization can work with.
References
McGinnis S. K (2012). Organizational behavior and management thinking. Organizational behavior and management thinking. pp 1-20. https://dphu.org/uploads/attachements/books/books_4740_0.pdf
Delta publishers (2006). Understanding and managing organizational behavior. pp 1- 80. http://www.apexcpe.com/publications/471001.pdf