MGMT1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chartered Institute Of Personnel And Development, Agreeableness, Insomnia
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What is organisational behaviour: organisational behaviour is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups and structure have on behaviour within organisations, for the pu(cid:396)pose of appl(cid:455)i(cid:374)g su(cid:272)h k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge to(cid:449)a(cid:396)ds i(cid:373)p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)isatio(cid:374)(cid:859)s effectiveness. Individual level micro: team level messo, organisational level macro. Evidence based management: basing managerial decisions on the available scientific evidence, e. g, use frameworks to structure thinking, qualitative information, quotes, critical incidents, quantitative information, question assumptions. Myers-briggs type indicator (mbti: a personality test that taps into four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types, personality types, extroverted vs. introverted (e or i, sensing vs. intuitive (s or n, thinking vs. Criticisms: dimensions separate, have we got the right number of factors, do kids have 2 additional factors? irritability & activity, methodology (cid:862)a ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) of the st(cid:396)a(cid:374)ge(cid:396)(cid:859, descriptive not explanatory. Cross-cultural: replicated across numerous cultures, not always the exacts same results.
