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Organizational Behavior Trends
In today's competitive business world, there are trends in organizational behavior that have a huge impact on organizations and their employees. There is technology which reflects work-related stress trends and ethics on decision making. Every organization has a corporate code of conduct and ethics which serve as the cornerstone upon which employees make decisions based on morale conduct, integrity and trust. The presence of ethics in the workplace can be associated with less ethical dilemmas and illegal wrongdoing within the organization. Ethical decisions in the workplace sustain employees from losing self-control when work and personal life becomes stressful. Technology provides organizations and employees with the support and tools for making decisions easier and in some cases less stressful. This paper will provide the impact of technology on work-related stress and the influence of ethics on decision making.
Schermerhorn, Hunt, and Osborn have associated technology with artificial intelligence (AI), which is defined as "The study of how computers can be programmed to think like the human brain and computers are allow to make decisions" (p. 329). Scientist Herbert Simon believes that computers will become smarter than humans. Will computers become more intelligent than humans? There is reason to believe that computers will become only as smart as the information that is input into it. Technology was developed to help relieve work-related stress among employees in an organization. Technology can become stressful when an employee has to sit stationary for several hours at work; as well as learning new technology.
At Citigroup, computers have allowed custom ...