MGCR 222 Lecture Notes - Fax, Ideo, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Ruthanne Huising

Document Summary

Organizational behavior - study of what people do in a social unit which functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a set of goals. Field of study ground in sock, anthro, social psych, poli sci, and econ. Studying regularities in individual and group bx in an organizational context. Study of social action, not individual psych. Individual success: team work, comm, negotiation, decision making, and influence. Managing: how to motivate others through culture, structure, and rewards. Enabling career success by understanding individual and group bx in org settings. Impression management - name it, understand why you do it. Requires understanding of patterns of social action, not individual psych. Parking spots, invading personal space, clothing, attitude. Printing, fax machine, general structure of the office. Bureaucracy - often has negative associations, but is only negative in certain environments. Statement about: division of labour (jobs) Specialists: extensive experience and knowledge of small number of tasks/ activities.