AFM280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Organizational Commitment, Organizational Culture, Job Performance

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM280
• Professor: D'arcy Delamere

Document Summary

A field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Why individuals and groups in organizations act the way they do. Field of study that focuses on the applications of ob theories and principals. Field of study devoted to exploring the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization"s profitability. Scientific management: heavy emphasis on specialization, coordination and efficiency, using scientific methods to design optimal and efficient work processes and tasks. Bureaucracy: organizational form that emphasizes the control and coordination of its members through a strict chain of command, formal rules and procedures, centralized decision making, division of labour with a high level of technical specialization o o. System of rules: decision making at the top of organization. Field of study that recognizes that the psychological attributes of individual workers ad the social forces within work groups have important effect on work behaviour.