Organizational Behavior, National and Organizational Culture

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To We understand organizational behavior is important to disaggregate what is organizational culture, are the values, attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguish one organization from the others and these are passed on to all generations of the organization and differ from other cultures of the other organizations. These behaviors also are affected by both internal and external issues that influence the behavior of participants in organizational behavior, the most relevant aspects are anthropology, psychology and sociology.

Additionally, the complexity of human conduct is tied to two outlooks that define their senses travel towards group behavior: internal, which indicates the behavior according to the feelings, needs, past experiences, and their thoughts. The second is external l who suggests that behaviors are influenced by external environment such as the nature.

Organization

Organizations behave as a conglomeration of public systems where it can interact with the four internal components: people, structure, tasks that are the goals or mission of the group, and the technology that is knowledge of the group.

The organization may have two points of view depending on where you look, the viewed from the more visible as are the objectives, policies, mission, financial resources, etc. that would be the most formal way of a organization, or from more intimate where you could see the values, attitudes, beliefs, perception and the organization representing the more informal part of the company.

It is important to relate the behavior of organizations with the behavior of individuals who represent it. Any challenge or other external factors that will test the organization directly disturbed individuals in the organization that will be affected by all decisions made taken by the organization.

National culture is a factor is the flow directly into the organizational culture, for this reason it is important to study the national culture in understanding the external events that influence organizational culture.

External factors involve a detailed analysis on the decision making process in the organization, since these decisions are taken based on the reaction external facts as suppliers decision, competitors, religious aspects, the infrastructure of the country and others, that all decisions made are complex to the organizational.




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For these reasons, the conformation of a multicultural organization creates a comparative advantage to other organizations, as the complexity of outlets generate more point of views to achieve a possible solution.

A good tool for analyzing the national culture is the Hofstede's model, which gives a dimension of national culture and cites the five basic pillars: Power distance, Masculinity, Individualism, Context, Uncertain avoidance.