The Subject Matter Expert (SME) Sessions
that are held at Global Institute of Business Studies in Bannerghatta,
Bangalore do provide many valuable insights. Learning together and interacting around
a topic with a focus on activities and participation is nowadays the worldwide
trend in education. Research indicates that information is quickly forgotten if
it is merely read in a book while action imprints the matter in the brain and
is easily recalled. A picture does tell a thousand words after all and
especially in the image and video filled media of this day.
Effective and dynamic teaching and
learning at GIBS extends to both the postgraduate courses MBA and PGDM. The two
graduate courses BBA and BCom also practice the same philosophy.
Mr. Kiran Koppadda conducted the SME
session on Organizational Behavior. If there is anything that unites the human
race on a universal level, it is the organizations to which the people belong.
Though working groups are primarily meant by the term, we should be including
the family unit too, since the modern family contains all the qualities found
in offices. Most homes nowadays include at least an office corner with a desk,
computer and printing machine connected with the internet that facilitates a
range of tasks.
A complex field of
study
For the boys and girls, the session was
the first step of a long journey. It is a subject that keeps you thinking deep.
While we see organizations everywhere and many clad in uniforms in a metropolis
like Bengaluru, we sometimes fail to understand the mystery behind their work
and bonding, cooperation and conflicts. The Human Resources department, of
course, would have a better understanding.
Yet, HR is not all. Digital communication
has done much to improve the status and effectiveness of HR in recent times,
but more needs to be done in terms of apps and software for improved
performance. Sociology would help understand how people bond in groups and what
guides relationships. Psychology would help understand the mental factors at
work and how to relieve stress at the workplace. Management is central with
offices that contain five workers and mega businesses that employ thousands of
workers! Management unites them all.
Everybody has images of happy and
productive workplaces imprinted in the mind with imagery derived from real life
experiences, film and television. Are they as happy and successful, productive
and meaningful as they appear? What is it that keeps them going? Research would
be needed to delve deeper.
GIBS would be an
excellent example
It is better to start the research with
the home! In terms of organizations and how individuals and groups interact, GIBS
could become an early learning point.
Though the institute is primarily made up of students who are busy
building a lifetime professional foundation, it is an organized set up with
professional faculty besides the administrative staff. Group behavior and
individuals are at work all day. The campus is active 24 hours as a residential
facility.
Efficiency, science
and management
Maximum efficiency is indirectly related
to higher profits and that is primarily the purpose of a business with ethical
values in mind. Leadership and job satisfaction, payments and working
conditions, reputations and standards are some aspects of the enterprise. Human
research has carried out intensive observations to record how human behavior
changes and adapts according to influences and observation, conditions and
machinery, uniforms etc.
Academic studies could investigate many
of the associated aspects relating to several study areas to gain a better
understanding of men and women at work. The history of the human record of work
and achievement is truly inspiring, whether it was inventions or constructions,
the digital and electronic and medical worlds, to name a few salient areas. Now
that science, industry and technology have increased human productivity
enormously, it is time to proceed at a faster pace towards the land of our
dreams.
The GIBS students have excellent chances
of practicing the same human organizational behavior principles to their
advantage in future when they join internships and placements.
Study of theories
Understanding individuals and group
behavior is a tricky task, guided by a large number of theories and
applications. Leadership and cooperation, emotional intelligence and
personality, goal setting, motivation and needs are some pertinent areas of
study.
Gestalt Principles refer to perception.
Attitudes and Behavior refer to Reinforcement and Social Cognitive Theory, among
others. Theories of Motivation are very important too and refer to Herzberg and
Maslow, among several others.
Let us remind ourselves of the need to
cooperate, just as millions of organizations are doing around the world at this
moment. It is only by cooperating in groups that social and national prosperity
can be achieved. After professional success is accomplished, it will be time to
give back to the society that nurtured you.
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