Month: July 2015

  During the Industrial Revolution This topic is kind of obscure. In a course I took on organizational behavior (OB), we were required to read a short story by Herman Melville, called “Bartleby the Scrivener.” It’s a strange story, written in 1853 – shortly after the industrial revolution made such drastic changes to working conditions and other aspects of society and which we were told the authors of the time were railing against. A Strange…

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These definitions from urban dictionary are evidence of how employees feel when they’re not engaged in their jobs: Employee: A slave with a paycheck. Groups of people at the workplace who engage in the means of production by providing labor to the employer. In return for their hard work, the employees receive pay and benefits while the employer makes a profit which allows the employees to continue to earn income which they spend in other places allowing other people to remain…

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Being Promoted Doesn’t Mean Always Being Right I think people who get promoted often make the mistake of taking that as proof that their decisions are the right ones. Not necessarily so. Suppose for example, one of two people get promoted. Now that person gets to decide how everything gets done. But it might have been a really close call. With a different toss of the coin, maybe the other person would have been promoted,…

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How We Communicate Is More Fundamental than Any Amount of Planning …improvement in organizations essentially comes down to the interactions between one individual and another. The woman who taught me non-violent communication a number of years back, believes that improvement in organizations essentially comes down to the interactions between one individual and another. She is an experienced OD consultant, who’s done things like strategic planning with groups for years. Eventually, she shifted to teaching people…

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