BSAD 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Resource Management, Strategic Management

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BSAD 120
• Professor: Ante Glavas

Document Summary

Organizational behavior a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resource management takes the theories and principles studied in ob and explores the nuts-and-bolts applications of those principles in organizations. Strategic management focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization"s profitability. Experience: people hold firmly to some belief because it is consistent with their own experience and observations. Intuition: people hold firmly to some belief because it just stands to reason it seems obvious or self-evident. Authority: people hold firmly to some belief because some respected official, agency, or source has said it is so. Correlation abbreviated r, describes the statistical relationship between two variables. 10 is weak, . 30 is considered moderate & . 50 is considered strong in ob research. There is only a weak negative correlation between task performance and counterproductive behavior.