MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Effectiveness
3 Mar 2018
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Organizational behaviour (ob) -- study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. Organizations -- groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. Collective entities people interact with each other in an organized way. Organizations have a collective sense of purpose -- e. g. developing internet products or designing better aircraft. Ob emerged as a distinct field around the early 1940s. Helps us make sense of and predict our world. Adopt more accurate models of workplace behaviour. Organizational behaviour is for everyone - helps everyone, not just managers. Ob and the bottom line: ob practices affect organization"s survival and success. Organizational effectiveness is the outcome that most ob theories are ultimately trying to achieve. Open systems perspective: this perspective views organizations as complex organisms that live within an external environment. The word open describes this permeable relationship, whereas closed systems operate without dependence on or interaction with an external environment.
