Geethan Lakmal

You stab My Back, I’ll Stab yours: Management Experience and Perceptions of Organization Political Behavior Organizational politics are very important to an every organization, where this will play a major role within the organization as a whole. Politics are a reality in most organizations, where in order to secure resources, progress ideas, achieve personal goals and even to enhance the one’s standing. Ferris argued that the field of organizational politics remains largely unexplored, particularly with regard to the subjective experience. The main focus of this research goes align with the management experience, implications of the organizational change, Individual performance, reputation and career. A good political behavior will focus more towards the value of openness, honesty and integrity and ethical leadership. One aim of this particular research is to explore the British manager’s perception regarding this political background and the second aim will emphasis on developing a f...

  Business Ethics as Practice Business ethics are very important when considered to the organizational context, where ethics portrait the philosophy of the organization or the behaviour of the organization within the working environment.   Most of the time business ethics would go aligns with the culture of the organization. Ethics in organization is an ongoing process of debate and contestation over the moral choices. This research article illustrates the use of ethics in practice. Philosophy ethics and the rule of organizations:              According to this research they have focused on Kant,s  deontological ethics, where he developed a process that elicit whether an action is ethical or not.  We know that deontological ethics are very important in which it marks the important steps away from an ethics based on certain and predetermined values. Most of the researches have a doubt whether this ethics re...

The Role of Curiosity in Global Managers’ Decision- Making   When we concern about the organization success, ‘Decision Making’ take place a significant role within the organizational context. Especially managers need to be outfitted with the ability in making appropriate decision. Unfortunately it is said that the global managers lack the effective decision making skills due to the unawareness of the dynamic changes in the environment. They lack the ability to measure the changing rate and the influence of the change to the organization. It is argued that ‘Curiosity’ will provide a strong foundation to overcome this situation.   First of all you need to understand the relationship between the curiosity and the decision making. To take a better idea about this relationship it is important to analyze the sequence arguments which were appeared in the research paper. It says that curiosity prompt in learning and also it makes easy in making better decision. Research paper prov...

Managing Culture at British Airways: Hype, Hope and Reality Managing culture is very important in gaining competitive advantage towards the organization by enhancing the employee satisfaction. Some managers are seeking to promote positive attitudes by increasing the employee responsibility through empowerment. These cultural changes may directly affect to the employee attitudes, where this will enhancing the mutual commitment of employees. Moreover, this will help to share a common vision within the work force and that will fulfil the organizational objectives while gaining good will of the organization. Managing culture involves lot of management concerns; where there are managerial tasks need to be fulfilled. Managerial tasks become one that involves establishing control over the meaning of work, where they need to provide prescriptions, exemplars and celebrations. Therefore   it will help to fulfil the functions necessarily, productive interventions within the organization....

Multiple Identities and Work Motivation: The Role of Perceived Compatibility between Nested Organizational Units In the modern context social identification play a major role within organizations and pay more attention towards typical work place offers multiple foci or targets of identification. Because of this employees are willing to develop multiple identifications at the work place. For example; employees may identify with their supervisors, occupations, workgroups or the organization at the same time. This multiple identifications are more focused towards the employees’ respective correlation with the potential outcome. This research was mainly focused on to explore the how perceived compatibility between the two foci correlates and work motivation. Cooperative network can be defined as associations of legally independent organizations that pursue common goal and have a common cooperate identity. Cooperate network involves more than one organization. Network typically deals with t...

  Managing the Change Across Boundaries: Boundary-Shaking Practices As a part of their day today responsibilities, some managers manage to across the departmental or geographical boundaries. To shoulder to this responsibilities they do researchers. These researchers focused upon the boundary spanners who are responsible wit making changes across the boundaries. These researchers also explore the boundary shaking practices in the context of appreciating the possibility of their emergence ad development. In order to manage the boundary spanning activities, boundary spanners need to be outfitted with some skills, such as interpersonal, networking and influence, etc. to achieve the particular mandated power the above skills plays a vital role.   Political nature also plays a vital role change agency according to the researchers. This is also an important point to boundary shakers. The nature of their work might fix with requirement of managing and influencing the politics across t...

Diversity as a Basis for shared Organizational Identify: The Norm Congruity Principal Diversity is an important aspect with regard to the organizational context. Throughout this research it will help to identify the frame work to specify the situation, which the employees occurred by having the diversification within the organization. Diversification is a vital aspect or often broad and generally illustrates the individual differences within the workforce in an organization. In this paper, it will further elaborate the type of diversity within multidisciplinary organizations, effective team function and different views on work related issues.  According to Ashka nasy Hartel and Dass (2002), suggested that the growing presence of women and minorities in organizations, have mostly studied the effects of social category differences in race, ethnic background and gender. Moreover, concentrate on other compositional differences, where diversity issues for valued team and organizational ...

Complexity Theories and Organizational Change  This article is with regard to the organizational change, which is an important aspect within the context of organizational behavior. Organizations are faced extraordinary level of change and that involves the ability of managing the change within the organizations and also that will reflect the core organizational competence.   This complexity theory acts as an umbrella over the number of theories, where these will emphasis on understanding organizations and promoting organizational change. Therefore this article basically reviews on how complexity theories can be applied to the organizations and organizational change and to depict the new approach to understand and manage organizations. Approaches to Change  There are many different approaches in relation to the organizational change and having many ways of categorizing them. Organizational change was dominated by the planned approach.  This planned approach is mainly ...