BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Resource Management, Politicking With Larry King, Scientific Management
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What are organizations: organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social inventions: organizations are social inventions; essential characteristics is the coordinated presence of people not necessarily thins, the field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Goal accomplishment: the field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change, certain behaviours are necessary for survival and adaptation, people have to. Be motivated to join and remain in the organization. Carry out their basic work reliably in terms of productivity, quality and service. Be willing to continuously learn and upgrade their knowledge and skills. Be flexible and innovative, especially important for contemporary organizations. Group effort: organizations are based on group effort, organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals, much if the intellectual and physical work done in organizations is through groups.
