MGTS1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Theory, Decision-Making, Electronic Body Music
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Importance of interpersonal skills: developing managers" interpersonal skills helps organisations to attract and keep high-performing employees, positive social relationships are associated with lower stress levels at work and lower intentions to quit. So, having managers with good interpersonal skills is likely to make the workplace more pleasant: in today"s competitive and demanding workplace, managers cannot succeed on their technical skills alone; they also have to have good people skills. What do managers do: allocate resources, direct activities of others to attain goals. Work in an organisation more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals: a consciously coordinated social unit composed of two or. Intuition and systematic study: ob studies three determinants of behaviour in, each of us is a student of behaviour. You have been: you can improve your predictive ability by supplementing. Sociology: helps us understand organisational culture, formal organisation theory, remember there are no absolutes in ob!
