Understanding and managing organizational behavior - ideas for paper

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Management of ability
The Bob Lancaster model enables the employees to do what they want provided they meet the goals of the organization. The Aberdeen model seeks to empower the employees to work according to their own method provided they understood and fulfilled their responsibilities and were not dishonest.
There is a system of training and certification by which the employee can learn and get his skills certified. The abilities of the employees were encouraged and enhanced by getting an employee to get more skills certified which in turn would lead to an increase of salary.
The abilities in the company were not held by individuals but were shared. This was done by encouraging individuals to find teachers who would teach them. This ensured that the skills of the teachers were passed on the employees who were taught.
Alternative methods that can be implemented at Green River would be offering them an option to form work teams that would be empowered to take up projects and complete them with joint responsibility. This can be implemented by mooting the proposal with the union.

Organizational Commitment
Each operation makes the best use of its employees in Aberdeen by making them a part of a team process. Each member feels an integral part of a team and works towards the team process. In contrast at Green River, it is the process of specialization that makes use of its employees. It is a traditional factory system with focus on division of labor and developing expertise in a small area of work. Participative management was tool used to increase organizational commitment at Aberdeen. Groups were formed ...