MHR 405 Lecture 1: MHR 405 - L.1 Jan 17

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 405
• Professor: Frank Miller

Document Summary

Hootsuite - free service that helps client manage their social media postings. Company culture - what makes a company unique /special / different. (ob) - the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. Organizations - groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose: collective entitites - people interact with each other in an organized way, organizations have a collective sense of purpose i. e. historical foundations of ob. Ob emerged as a distinct eld around the early 1940s. Organizations have been studied longer: plato - leadership, con cius - ethics, leadership. Focus of ob - how do we get people to work together, more ef ciently : setting goals, challenge - Company requires resources in order to perform. Must transform the resources to whatever the company does // which ultimately goes on to serve other people. Since you are not working in isolation, constant feedback is provided, to create iterations: organizational learning perspective.