Smithsonian Exhibit- Workplace Dynamics

Hello everyone and welcome to the Smithsonian Museum of american

History. Today's exhibit.

We will look through the american workplace dynamics.

So first off here at the Smithsonian Museum, we have

created this exhibit to demonstrate the dynamics, behaviors and diversity

of the american workplace.

We'll move from topic to topic.

First topic we will look at is organizational behavior.

So organizational behavior is the study that investigates the groups,

individuals within the groups and the structure within the organizations.

So within these organizations, managerial activities must be done.

First of these is traditional management which is decision making

in planning, anything that you would think of with managerial

managerial things.

Next we have communication.

So that's exchange of information.

This could be from employer to employee.

This could be from employer to customer.

This can be from employee to even customer with marketing.

Next we have HR which is the motivation discipline, discipline

and training anything basically to do with seeing how employees

are looking into disputes between employees and anything in between.

Lastly we have networking which is socialization and interaction.

This can be anything from a quick workplace interaction with

another employee or it can be a meeting with the

boss. Moving on from organizational behavior, we start to look

at diversity in the workplace.

So with diversity in the workplace, we see that they

exist in many ways some examples would be sex race,

gender. Anything that sets people apart from each other ah

With diversity sadly will come discrimination.

So that's a noting of individual difference in individuals And

while it is not a bad thing per se.

Ah This can quickly lead to stereotyping in which individuals

are discriminated with or favored rather also.

Um This is the opposite end of discrimination.

Obviously favoured solely based on the factors that cannot control

such as sex, age and race.

Overall this has become a big thing in the workplace

and it is quite illegal as discrimination based on things

that one can not control is wrong ethically morally and

legally in a lot of time in a lot of

cases. Uh So overall diversity in the workplace can be

beneficial um Due to the fact that new ideas can

be presented and shared and this is beneficial because everyone

has different life experiences.

So everyone has different ways that they've grown up different

cultures that they've grown up in different wisdom.

Different knowledge can be brought to the table and to

make these decisions.

Moving on.

We will start to look at attitudes and job satisfaction.

So attitudes work is evaluative statements.

There are three main components of attitude, one being cognitive

which is the description and belief of the belief of

the way things are next would be effective, which is

emotional or feeling component of attitudes.

Lastly would be behavioral which is intentions to behave a

certain way towards something, attitudes can reflect the job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction in return will affect job involvement and if

those who work for a company are not satisfied, they

will not work as hard.

These attitudes can help to denote someone's own thoughts and

sub opinions on subjects Next remove to emotions and moods.

So emotions are the intense feelings towards something or someone,

moods are less intense feelings and can arise without being

set off by any specific events and leave just as

quickly. Um, so the main reason we would pay attention

to these is that they can lead to irrational or

unethical decisions.

Overall it is best that one would keep their own

emotions in check and overall the employers should provide resources

that the individual can do such or get help.

Otherwise this can be done by checking in on employees,

making sure that everyone is sort of comfortable with each

other and not afraid to speak out if they feel

something is wrong but also no one to hold their

tongue. So to say next we move on to personality

and values.

So those deal with a different type of two human

dynamic personality and values or something that cannot be easily

swayed or change their something that is dead set within

someone. Oftentimes personality can sway once in a while and

values obviously can be learned picked up or even lost

depending on the personal belief.

Um, these are things that individuals and organizations need to

compromise and tightrope on.

If an action of a company requires one to go

against their values, the individual may leave or there may

be a dispute and on the flip side.

Alternatively, if one mm excuse me.

If one's values of the individual cause them to be

unproductive or on safety company to be inefficient to the

company. This can lead to the release of the employee.

This isn't always a case of discrimination as some people,

I would like to think it is mainly just because

those are set held values where a person can control

that versus something that they cannot control such as race

or age.

This seems to be big in today's news with disputes

regarding the coronavirus and safety protocols such as vaccine mandates

I'm not going to go in depth more about that,

but there just seems to be in the news a

lot. Next we have perceptions and decision making.

So this can be a big, this can play a

big role in whether or not employed compatible in the

workplace. Do they work well in teams settings?

Do they work well under pressure?

Do they work well making split second decisions?

Companies need to know this stuff when they are hiring

individuals, Problems with us can occur as everyone is trying

to get ahead.

Everyone is trying to make a name for themselves.

So self serving biases can occur when a company, Excuse

me, when everyone in the company is trying to get

ahead but not everyone is trying to work towards the

same goal, disagreements will result in inefficiencies will occur in

the company.

This can very, very much harder.

The company And so lastly we have motivation.

So this exists as the process that accounts for individuals

performance basically towards a goal.

It accounts for their intensity and persistence, working toward the

goal and motivation can be found when it is a

combination of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and McClellan's theory of

needs are found within an individual.

So to look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs to start

with things like psychological and move all the way up

into the, do you want to be belonging into a

certain group?

Um They, excuse me, they will extend into things such

as transcendence into self and really just, I would say

finding a deeper motivation to not only work for oneself

or to work for others in the betterment of humanity.

Now, on the flip side we have mcclelland motivation needs,

um this is what everyone wants, basically affiliation, achievement and

power. This is kind of something that would tie into

like you want to be noticed, you want the glory

and you want the money, you want all the control

and lastly moving on to the latter part of motivation

is that you want to make these concepts of reality

through application.

So this can be done with the job characteristics model

that we found.

Um This runs through a list of skill variety test,

identity test, significant ation autonomy and feedback.

Um each employee can use this to sort of evaluate

their own performance.

Um If one is found to be of high performance,

they could say that the motivation is even found in

high achievement of self and this can just be a

great cycle in which they continue to perform and succeed

well because they like doing it, that is their motivation

to do it.

But if one is found to have low success rate

and low performance, other methods, motivation may need to be

found for that individual, whether that's through management or through

hR trying to help an individual get better.

Thank you everyone for coming today's exhibit.

I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you look

more into the dynamics of the american workplace.

Thank you so much.

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