Organizational Behaviour

No human being is born and lives individually. Being a social animal, every individual is highly dependent to the other people around him and also the amenities at the place of living and also working. This concept has named as social support and it has defined by many researchers Social support in the workplace can come from many sources. The most commonly explored sources are supervisors and coworkers. The present study on “WORK SOCIAL SUPPORT AND PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY”. The main objective of the study is to understand the level of work social support an employee perceives inside the organization. The study is to find out satisfactory level of the work social support and performance in organization. The main objective of study is to analyze the sources of work social support in the organization. Major findings shows that most of the employees are satisfied with the management practice, IR, etc. They are proud to say that they are employee of Roots industries.

Internal organizational communication plays an important role in facilitating effective and efficient library operations and service delivery. However, over the years, the University of Nairobi library system, scattered across six campuses, has registered many complaints, both from the Library staff and users of information services due to poor internal organizational communication. The aim of this study was, therefore, to analyse the existing internal organizational communication at the University of Nairobi library system with the view of suggesting ways in which it can be enhanced. The objectives of the study were: to determine the effectiveness of the used forms and channels of internal communication on the execution of library operations and services; to establish the internal communication policy framework governing internal communication at the university library system and to suggest ways of optimising the use of forms and channels of internal communication to enhance library operations and services. The study population was composed of various cadres of University of Nairobi Library staff stationed at the six campuses. Out of 167 members of the library staff, 45 were purposefully and randomly selected to form the study sample. Data was collected using face-to-face interviews and documentary reviews. Data was analysed thematically and presented by use of descriptive statistics. The findings of the study revealed that internal organisational communication was largely inadequate due to variations in communication practices in the various branches of the Library and an inefficient internal communication policy. The study subsequently recommends a review of the existing communication policy and streamlining of the internal communication practices to improve library operations and Services.

The Magistrates' Courts Service is a local service. People working here are solicitors or barristers; they may have an arts or social sciences background. Addition to these qualifications their verbal communication is excellent but they have low in analytical and numerical skills. After deeply analyzing the given case about Magistrate Courts Service, certain issues which need to be addressed through effective development program in this study. These issues include lack of skills (mainly analytical and numerical), lack of coordination and consensus in most of the decision and activities performed, low coordination, more than required level of independence. Beside this the information on hand, differs greatly in nature and quality which makes it quite unreliable. Investigation report regarding the Magistrates’ Courts Service has proposed a number of options for change in order to improve the working. These changes are required for the management and administration of courts services in more effective way.

This study uncovers the relationship between the impact of determinants such as transformational leadership and intrinsic motivation on employee creativity, where intrinsic motivation is a mediating party between their relationship and with other variables such as employee relational identification playing a moderating role between transformational leadership and intrinsic motivation and employee empowerment playing the moderating role between intrinsic motivation and employee creativity in the organizational culture of Pakistan. The sample data of two hundred respondents was collected from a well know leather exporting company in Pakistan, named Nova Leather Factory which is located in Lahore a city of Pakistan. All the people who are either in a leadership and/or managerial role or are currently working in an organization at various positions were eligible to fill the questionnaire as the instrument developed for the research. This research has validated the argument that transformational leadership is positively related to employee creativity while intrinsic motivation plays a mediating part and other factors such as employee relational identification and employee empowerment play a moderating part through statistical analysis i.e. Variable Measurement, Descriptive Statistics, Reliability Analysis, Correlation Analysis, Regression Analysis, of the data gathered through the means of statistical software i.e. SPSS 16.01. The results showed that transformational leadership can lead towards employee creativity and when these factors have an influence of intrinsic motivation, employee relational identification and employee empowerment these factors still have a positive significant contribution towards employee creativity. This research will help the managers and organizations to focus on aspects holding the most significance for the employee creativity and would became a valuable literature for further research and exploration.

Emotional intelligence is increasingly recognized as a key leadership competency and an essential component of behavioral aspect of managing organizations. Research show that managers’ ability to recognize and control their emotions leads to increase in employees’ contribution to organization, commitment, productivity, and customers’ satisfaction. Thus, This research primarily aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational and transactional leadership styles. To collect data, a questionnaire was distributed among high school teachers and Vizinger’s and Burk’s measures were used to analyze data. The results did not show a meaningful relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles.

A new branch of management called knowledge management is created for improved application of knowledge capital in organizations. Applying such process improves knowledge processes and enhances organizational knowledge by linking knowledge management with organizational strategies. Also, it provides proper guidelines to compensate current deficiencies and helps organization to keep its competitive advantage. In present study and after brief study of knowledge management concepts by identifying and considering affecting factors on management success and knowledge management enablers, research hypotheses were revealed to evaluate organizational readiness to execute knowledge management in both individual and organizational sections. Then, these factors were studied by connoisseurs to evaluate the readiness of Bushehr Gas Company. Finally, the readiness of Bushehr Gas Company to execute knowledge management was assessed and confirmed by a questionnaire and the relevant scores were computed. Then, the weak points were identified according to the readiness of the Company and proper guidelines were provided to remove deficiencies.

Grievances or conflicts are part of industrial/ corporate scenario. In the working lives, employees occasionally have reasons to be uncomfortable, disappointed or aggrieved either about certain managerial decisions and practices or service conditions. The question then is whether this particular symptom or feeling is given any attention or is ignored altogether. What are the pros and cons of each of the approaches? The conflicts or disappointments cannot be eliminated but their expressions will contribute towards their reduction. Such expressions lead to adjustments and further improved organizational effectiveness. To a large extent, the approach to the problem will be governed by several variables such as the style of management, size of the enterprise, level of education of the workforce, technology of the plant and the extent of unionization of the work force.

Ware house Optimization process are based on modern warehousing and multi-optimization models. Modern warehousing become more typical and complex to handle and this paper highlight the role of operational and technical solutions in the development of today warehousing projects Warehousing optimization studies can be undertaken on the basis of its technical structure and operational framework or its controlling system. Present paper reveals the hurdles and complexities of modern warehousing optimization and also focus on remedies to overcome the constraints in optimization of warehouse. Warehouse management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in handling, storage and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel partners, which can be suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service providers, and customers. The optimal operation of a warehouse is achieved when each customer is satisfied completely and logistic processes are done within a reasonable timeframe with minimum cost and optimal utilization of resources under dynamically changing conditions. This paper also reveal that the effective use of space within the boundary of warehouse provide the basic platform to solve the problems coming across in the warehouse management. The stability of using steel storage racks depend upon solely on the pallet beam to upright connectors and on the stiffness of base plate to floor connection.

Nowadays, empowerment, as well-known tool that managers by it will be able, today's organizations that have features such as a variety of channels through growing reliance on horizontal structure and partner networks, little difference directors and employees of each other, and reduce organizational affiliation are run efficiently. Therefore, this study seeks to answer the question of which factors affecting the staff empowerment, job satisfaction for them now, the are. The influence of the factors affecting empowerment, job satisfaction and, as a case study, the staff of the Ayandeh bank , using the so-called correlation, and the questionnaire is analyzed. The sample size of the study population according to the investigations, about 460 of them are, according to Cochran formula, was estimated at 210 people. In this study, after collecting data from test to test, Pearson (Pearson), to determine the extent and degree of the relationship between two variables is used. Results indicate that, competency, job satisfaction among the staff of the Ayandeh bank , self-organizing job satisfaction, effectiveness, job satisfaction, a sense of meaning, job satisfaction and trust in others, job satisfaction, respectively, with the significant 0/028, 0/003, 0/04, 0/048, 0/002, A significant and positive relationship, and so all hypotheses of the study were approved.

Present study was design to measure the students’ perception and expectation from the teachers of higher education. Population of the study comprised of university students who dropped out from university or who got less than 60% marks. Students were contacted at university campuses and hostels in the vicinity of Rawalpindi/Islamabad. A purposive sample of 86 male and female students was collected from these two afore mentioned levels of the population. Through this study various important role of teachers’ behaviour unravel and findings of the study suggest that teachers behaviour is important because it can favourably or adversely affect the student’s attitude towards learning. In the process of teaching learning students have expectations from their teachers, both professional and behavioural, negative behavioural traits of the teachers behaviour can impaired teacher students relationship and also disgrace teachers image in the eyes of their students. Findings of the study will be helpful for teachers to evaluate and re-examine their behaviour in the light of their students’ expectations.