HI6005 | Management | The Organizational Behaviour Theories

Write a report on E-learning activities in organisations.

Introduction

E-learning activities are one of the ways of conducting learning remotely. They have the ease of making studies comfortable by staying within the home premises. The students can comfortably study the materials at their leisure time. The course content provided by the institutions are too large extent set an example for the students so that they can have practical experiences. The various sections in the course content are then used to compare with the real situations (Ferreira-Satler et al. 2012). This study will be based on the writing blogs on the courses that have been learned through the e-learning procedures.

E-learning Activities

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The week one study is based on the study of management and organizations. the topics that are covered in the study are the organizational behaviour theories, general administrative theories, qualitative theory, general administrative theory, scientific management theory, historical background of the management theories, development of the major management theories, academic discipline that impact management, current trends in the management practice, integration of the management theory, behavioural science theorist, humans relations movement, Hawthorne studies, early advocates of organization behaviour theories.

This unit provides a knowledge of the different contingency, systems and the process and approaches that are present in a system, along with the current trends in the management practices. This vital section also throws light on the management theories and the helps in being aware of the major historical contributions to the management. Studying organizations and management helps in understanding the management relationship with the other fields of study (Hislop, Bosua and Helms 2018). The vital aspect is that the study of the organizations and management helps in understanding how political science, psychology, sociology, philosophy, economics and anthropology. The different subjects provide a helpful insight into the different aspects and the different sections of the society and how it impacts the management of an organization. Organizations are created to serve the needs of its customers and it has employees that are the core and the vital part. In order to understand the psychology of the customers, organizations need to have an insight of the philosophy, psychology of the customers. While at the same time, it requires the economics data so that they can have the insight of the various market data and the country politics that aid the management and organizational processes (Langley et al. 2013).

The key ideas that have been undergone in this unit will be helpful in the broad aspects of the management of an organization. The organizational behaviour theories that have been mentioned in the study course is one of the important aspects when organizations are taking vital decisions. The behaviour of an organization plays a key role in modifying the goals of an organization. Organizational behaviour provides an insight into the early advocates, behavioural relations movement, human relations movement and Hawthorne studies. Organizations like Amazon, take special measures in emphasizing the organizational behaviour (Huczynski, Buchanan and Huczynski 2013).

Globalisation

The week study emphasized the nature of globalization: national culture. The main topics of the course are: forms of global organizations, regional trading alliances, expert views on globalization, globalisation controversy, factors that are leading to globalisation trend, understanding the national cultural differences, factors affecting globalisation, Trompenaar’s model of national culture, Hofstede’s study of national culture, understanding the cultural differences, embracing local culture, the cultural environment, approach of New Zealand and Australian companies, stages ion globalisation.

This unit highlights the national cultures through the Hofstede and Trompennar models. This study increases the underlying factors that affect the globalisation and cultural differences. Globalisation is a modern concept which links the business and its operation at the international scale. Globalisation mandates how a business is run and the ability of managing the business at the foreign environment (Hoffmann and Kumar 2013). The top factors that affect globalisation are cultural, economic and the legal political factors. Economic factor highlights the amount of profit and the revenue earned by a company. While the legal political factor highlights that a company must abide by the law and the must be aware of the present political state of a country where it is carrying its core operations. the cultural factors that a company must take into account are the national values of a host country and the national culture of the host country. The cultural aspects of the home country and the foreign country must consider the cultural and the national values of the respective employees (Hogan and Coote 2014). 

There are hotel companies, banks that are present both in New Zealand and Australia. These companies have kept a close note on how the international employees fit into companies that are located in other companies. The culture of each country varies and information regarding the culture of a specific country is accurately provided by the Hofstede model. Hofstede model emphasizes on the five major dimensions and analyses a country based on such dimension (Venaik and Brewer 2013).

Conclusion

From the above study, it can be concluded that e-learning activities are the best ways through which students can learn actively about a particular course. This particular course lay emphasis on the study of management and organizations, aspects of decision making, organizational culture and management, the nature of globalization: national culture, the study of management and organizations. Such topics help a student to relate with the happenings in the environment and the management of organizations.

References

Ferreira-Satler, M., Romero, F.P., Menendez-Dominguez, V.H., Zapata, A. and Prieto, M.E., 2012. Fuzzy ontologies-based user profiles applied to enhance e-learning activities. Soft Computing, 16(7), pp.1129-1141.

Hislop, D., Bosua, R. and Helms, R., 2018. Knowledge management in organizations: A critical introduction. Oxford University Press.

Hoffmann, J. and Kumar, S., 2013. Globalisation–the maritime nexus. In The handbook of maritime economics and business (pp. 65-94). Informa Law from Routledge.

Hogan, S.J. and Coote, L.V., 2014. Organizational culture, innovation, and performance: A test of Schein's model. Journal of Business Research, 67(8), pp.1609-1621.

Huczynski, A., Buchanan, D.A. and Huczynski, A.A., 2013. Organizational behaviour (p. 82). London: Pearson.

Langley, A.N.N., Smallman, C., Tsoukas, H. and Van de Ven, A.H., 2013. Process studies of change in organization and management: Unveiling temporality, activity, and flow. Academy of management journal, 56(1), pp.1-13.

Venaik, S. and Brewer, P., 2013. Critical issues in the Hofstede and GLOBE national culture models. International Marketing Review, 30(5), pp.469-482.