MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Elton Mayo, Hootsuite, Organizational Learning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 405
• Professor: Jonathan Hughes

Document Summary

Organizational behavior (ob) study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. Organizations: groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose they are collective entities, where people interact with each other in an organized way organizations have a collective sense of purpose. For example: developing internet products or designing better aircraft. Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field around the early 1940s. Helps us make sense of and predict our world. Adopt more accurate models of workplace behavior. Organizational behavior is for everyone helps everyone, not just managers. Organizational behavior and the bottom line o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es affe(cid:272)t o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)"s su(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)al a(cid:374)d success. Vancouver-based hootsuite is a rapidly growing technology success story through its visionary leadership, adaptability, collaborative and creative culture, and other effective organizational behavior practices. Four perspectives of organizational effectiveness: open systems perspective, organizational learning perspective, high performance work practices perspective, stakeholders perspective.