COLLAB 2N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Resource Management, Human Relations Movement, Ason
18 Oct 2015
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Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. When we say that organizations are social inventions, we mean that their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not necessarily things. The field of ob is concerned with how to get people to practice effective team work. Organizational behaviour refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Those who study ob are interested in peoples attitude; behaviours like cooperation, conflict, innovation, resignation, or ethical lapses are important. Human resources management refers to programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop, and retain employees in organizations goals of organizational behaviour: Explaining explaining why people are satisfied, motivated or prone to resign. Managing getting things accomplished in organizations through others; Weber believed that this would standardize behaviour in organizations and provide workers with security and a sense of purpose; jobs would be performed as intended rather than following the whims of the specific role occupant.
