Factors and Psychological Theories to Bring Optimal Organizational Change

Abstract

This research study intends to explain and describe factors and psychological theories to bring optimal organizational change. It also illustrates the practical implementation of business psychological theories. An organization's environment consists of internal and external environment. Political, social, technological and economic factors cause external environmental changes. An organization's management style, policies & procedures, systems and working style of employees case internal environmental changes. Some changes give positive results, while others articulate negative outcomes. There is various business psychological theories design to overcome and avoid destructive changes and to implement productive factors. In today's world of technological advancement, competition among organizations is very tough, and they need to strive to thrive and survive.

Table of Content

ABSTRACTII

INTRODUCTION1

DISCUSSION1

Factors to bring best possible organizational change3

Maintaining positive Interpersonal Relations at work:3

Detection of Ineffective Performance4

Being a Good Team Player5

Psychological Theories and their implementation into business practice7

Lewin's Three Steps Model7

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs motivational model9

Implications10

CONCLUSION11

REFERENCES12

Factors and Psychological Theories to Bring Optimal Organizational Change

Introduction

Why organizational change is essential and necessary? This question brings a number of thoughts and experiences in a human mind. A human being's life is a constant change. Particularly, organizational change is important to bring advancement in the environment, sustain motivation among employees and to survive in the market as a profitable organization. Managers, leaders and executives have made several efforts to bring organizational change, but they did not work effectively. Organizational change means to change an organization's direction completely, to change the structure and re-design the procedure and to offer an innovative vision for employees (Burke, 2011, p. 11). It is very difficult to bring a deep cultural change, to make a case for change, especially when a firm is performing well. Everything is going good, so why to change? An organization must plan to bring change, when it is on its peak of success. (Burke, 2011, p. 12).

Discussion

Psychological theories help to understand the human behavior and attitude. They provide guidance to travel in a good way. The behavior of employees working officially in an organization has a great impact on organizational change. Living standard and life style also depends on efforts and performance of an individual in the organization. Organizational psychology entails scientific methods to have knowledge about the attitude of individuals and their working style (Je x & Britt, 2008, p. 1).

Industrial / Organizational Psychology

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Industrial

Side

Organizational Side

Recruitment

Socialization

Selection

Motivation

Classification

Occupational Stress

Compensation

Leadership

Performance

Appraisal

Group

Performance

Training

Organizational

Development

Table 1: A breakdown of Topics associated with the Industrial and Organizational sides (Jex & Britt, 2008, p. 5).

Organizational psychology is quite similar to organizational behavior. To understand this point in detail, let's take an example; a life insurance company wants to design a test for selecting people who are able to sell insurance policies. To develop the test, the company would do job analysis; identify major responsibilities of a sale agent and develop a performance criteria, benchmark and target. It will also conduct a research to know that whether the test designed is allied with the performance criteria (Je x & Britt, 2008, ...