Learning this course has been fascinating and interesting as I have been able to learn a lot of things and new concepts. The course began by introducing the topic by defining organizational behavior as well as communication dynamics definition. The course had a good beginning since it started with the definition of key terms used in the topic and also it’s strong and vivid introduction that captured my interesting in concentrating and want to learn more in this course. This course covered various aspects and the key take away points that I managed to grasp include; external and internal environmental analysis, interpretation of the industry analysis, 5 forces of competition model, organization behaviors’ basic assumptions as well as leadership skills.
The most interesting part of this course is at the point whereby we were to distinguish between management and leadership. Surprisingly the majority of us including me were unable to differentiate between leadership and management. The funny is that when I was asked by the professor to define leadership and management. My definition was the same for both of them. However, eventually, after covering that part I was able to understand that leadership and management are two different things and are important aspects to organizations. Therefore, taking into consideration the leadership and management skills I learned from this course I intend to apply these practices in my future career. I look forward to being at least a manager after graduating from this course. And being a manager, this position requires an individual with good leadership and management skills in order to be successful.
The LeaderocityTM concept is the most interesting concept that attracted my attention. Just by the name itself is sounds interesting and attracts curiosity making me want to research more about to get to more about it. Despite the basic description made during the course about it, I intend to research more to know about this concept and get to understand how it is applied to organizational activities to ensure their success. Another interesting part that I learned is about the organizational behaviors. I found it important in getting to establish and understand the required behavior and conduct that is expected in an organization. Moreover, I was able to understand and distinguish between group and team behavior. Additionally, I was able to distinguish between groups and teams then also got to learn the behaviors of these categories. I am glad to have been able to learn and understand the behaviors of teams as well as behaviors of groups. I look forward to applying these behaviors in my future career when I get employed because they are critical practices that are required in an organization in order to establish a peaceful, collaborative and conducive work environment in order to achieve the organization’s objectives.
However, from the things that I learned in this course, I beg to differ and strongly disagree with the point made that team working in the organization is disadvantageous to an organization because it creates unevenness in the participation in work activities. I believe this point is totally wrong. Teamwork is an added advantage to an organization since it entailed collective forces geared towards attaining the organization’s objectives. In fact, teamwork entails sharing of work activities among team members thus ensuring that work is evenly distributed leading to the equal participation of all team members. All in all, the course has been interesting, informative and beneficial not only for my academic purposes but also to my future career as I will apply the concepts learned from this course making me a competent employee.