What are the 4 important forces affecting organizational behavior?

Answer 1

There are two main forces affecting organizational behavior. They are the same as the forces that affect human economic behavior. The forces are altruism and egoism. Altruism is the drive to help others and egoism is the drive for personal gain. In an organization that is well structured these will be aligned. In other words the goals of the organization will be stated in terms of how the organization helps others - quality products and services etc. (altruism) and the employees will be motivated by this.

As long as our needs are met, most humans are driven more strongly by altruism then by egoism. We work because we want to help others. So if we can see that the goal of our employer is to help others, we want to work for that goal.

A company that is primarily motivated by making profit at the expense of others will not motivate its employees in this way and will, most likely, have a culture of "me first".

Answer 2

That is a pretty broad question. First thing to know that is that different organizations are in different stages of evolution and maturity. Newly formed organizations such as start-ups are in different stage of evolution than a well established company such as IBM. So your question about the goals of organizational behaviour needs more context. But generically there can be four goals

- Foster Team Work

- Create a Winning Culture

- Become customer focused

- Create a learning environment

These are four good answers to the question, "What goals contribute to organizational success?"

The original question asks about the 4 forces affecting organizational behavior. There are two - altruism and egoism.

Other forces could be said to drive organizational behavior, for example "pride", but pride is energized by the wish to be better to benefit others (altruism) or to be better to get more (egoism).

Answer 3

There are a great many factors that affect organizational behavior. These factors include personality and surrounding environmental influences for example.