MGTS1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Behavior, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Human Resources
MGTS1601 – Lecture 1: What is organisational behaviour
*Definition of managers and organisation
- Managers: individual who achieve goals through other people
- Organisation: A consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or
more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a
common goal or set of goals
*Management function
1) Planning:
- a process that includes defining goals, establishing a strategy and developing
plans to coordinate activities
- is a process where increases the most of managers move from lower-level to
midlevel management
2) Organising:
- desigig orgaisatio’s struture
- determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the tasks are
to be grouped, who reports to whom and where decisions are to be made
3) Leading
- direct and coordinate people within the organisation
- a function that includes motivating employees, directing others, selecting the
most effective communication channels and resolving conflicts
4) Controlling
- to ensure things are going as they should be
- monitoring activities to ensure that they are being accomplished as planned
and correcting any significant deviations
*Mintzerg’s aagerial Roles
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Document Summary
Mgts1601 lecture 1: what is organisational behaviour. Managers: individual who achieve goals through other people. Organisation: a consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals. A process that includes defining goals, establishing a strategy and developing plans to coordinate activities. Is a process where increases the most of managers move from lower-level to midlevel management: organising: Determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom and where decisions are to be made: leading. Direct and coordinate people within the organisation. A function that includes motivating employees, directing others, selecting the most effective communication channels and resolving conflicts: controlling. To ensure things are going as they should be. Monitoring activities to ensure that they are being accomplished as planned and correcting any significant deviations.
