COMM 222 Lecture 1: Chapter 1

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 222
• Professor: Gordon Leonard

Document Summary

Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Organizations can be resumed by those three characteristics: social inventions, goal accomplishment, and. Organizational behaviour: it represents the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations, how organizations can be structured more effectively and how events in the external environment affect organizations. Organizational behaviour is managed by human resources department. Human resources: programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop, and retain employees in organizations. Some of the human resources practices are recruitment, compensation, training . The study of organizational behaviour helps to understand the use and effectiveness of human resources practices in any organizations, small or big. It also helps to understand human nature as it can explains failure of businesses. This concept of organizational behaviour has an important impact on managers, employees and consumers. Also, the comportment of people within a firm affect the effectiveness and competitiveness of an organization.