Organizational Behavior Trends

The American economist Robert Reich once said "Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together." Organizational behavior has become an increasingly important topic over the last decade as businesses have come to recognize their most important resource is the employees who work for them. To truly understand organizational behavior, one must first understand trends in organizational behavior and how these trends have an impact on employees. Trends such as the influence of ethics on decision-making and the impact of technology on work-related stress are two trends we must better understand, if we are to fully understand organizational behavior. We will look at both of these trends in order to gain a better understanding of organizational behavior and the impact on employees.…