MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Elton Mayo, Team Dynamics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 405
• Professor: Julien Beillard

Document Summary

The study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. Looks at employee behaviour, decisions, perceptions and emotional responses. How individuals and teams in organizations relate to each other and to their counterparts in other organizations. Study of how organizations interact with their external environments, particularly employee behaviour and decisions. Ob researchers systematically study these topics at multiple levels of analysis, namely, the individual, team (including interpersonal), and organization. Groups of people who work interdependently toward the same purpose. Have existed for as long as people have been working together. Consisted of people who communicate, coordinate and collaborate with eachother to achieve common objectives. Human beings ( typically, but not necessarily, employees), and these people interact with each other in an organized way. This requires some minimal level of communication, coordination and collaboration to achieve organizational objectives.