PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Interdisciplinarity, People Matters, Interpersonal Relationship

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH238
• Professor: Doug Brown

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour is the study of individual and group dynamics in an organizational setting, as well as the nature of the organizations themselves. It draws on principles, theory and methods from the social science disciplines of psychology and sociology, as well as economics, political science, anthropology and management. Definitions: organization- social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Who is in charge of people; management: management is an essence the utilizations o f the principles of organization behaviour to coordinate people and maximize their potential, productivity. Mintzberg): interpersonal, informational, decision-making: interpersonal: dealing with people. Subordinates: acquisition of people, settling conflicts, negotiating, rely on the principles of organizational behaviour, motivating people uses all three of this. Course topics: personality and abilities, learning motivation, perception and attribution, attitudes and behaviours, communication, groups and team. Leadership: decision making, negotiation, power and policies. The changing nature of work : work is always changing, the nature of what we do is changing.