COMM 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Culture
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What is ob: the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. It looks at employee behaviour, decisions, perceptions, and emotional responses. Helps us understand why people behave certain ways, how other behavior effect our perceptions, behaviors, cognitions and emotions. Fulfills out desire to understand and predict the world in which we live. Evidence based management: demand evidence, if someone proposes an idea, they must have the evidence to prove it, i. e employee wellness program, examine logic, could that evidence be based on faulty reasoning, encourage experimentation, reinforce continuous learning. Evidence-based management can undermine power of leaders/managers. **task conflict has the possibility to be positive. Teamwork: when people work together to build a house, will the job, get done faster, take longer to finish, note get done. Case study: general mills: building a culture of innovation.
