Organizational Behavior - Essay Example

Organizational Behavior The following chart compares the number of references with the decades starting from 1960 and ending at 2009. The graph shown above shows the change in the number of references in each decade starting from the year 1960. The decades have been displayed along the x-axis. There are five decades in total to represent the fifty years between 1960 and 2009. The number of references has been indicated along the y-axis. The interval between successive marks of the number of references on the scale is 75.

In 1960, there was no reference at all. The trend remained the same in all the tend years between 1960 and 1969. Trend changed with the start of the year 1970. The number of references suddenly jumped up from 0 to 20. In every year starting from 1970 and ending at 1979, the number of references remained 20. The number of references approximately doubled with the start of the year 1980 i.e. the number of references increased from 20 to 41. In the decade between 1980 and 1989, each year saw a total number of references of 41.

The number of references did not increase from 41 until the start of the year 1990, when another 21 references were added to the total to make them 62. It is noteworthy that the addition in the number of references at the junction between the end of 1979 and the start of 1980 is exactly equal to the addition in the number of references at the interface between 1989 and 1990. Each transition was equal to the addition of 21 references to the total. Starting from the year 1990 till the year 1999, the number of references remained stable at 62.

Right at the point of transition between 1999 and 2000, the number of references approximately showed a five-fold increase, thus becoming 300 in the year 2000 from only 62 in the year 1999. The number of references remained 300 in each year between 2000 and 2009. Overall, the increase of the number of references from 1960 to 2009 occurred in such a way that makes the pattern of stairs. Every decade from 1960 to 2009 represents one tread of the stair and every riser of this staircase is a point of transition between one decade and another.

Overall, there has been an increase in the number of references from 1960 to 2009, with the number remaining constant for each decade between the two years. It is also noteworthy that the references increased by small numbers in the starting years, but suddenly shot up at the junction between the year 1999 and the year 2000. With the onset of the 21st century, there occurred an immense transition in the number of references. In just a matter of fifty years, the number of references that were non-existent in the year 1960 and remained so for a whole decade since then became 300 in 2009.

The graph clearly shows that the major part of the increment is confined in the last transition.