MGHB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Satisfaction, Human Relations Movement, Depressive Realism
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January 3, 2017 lecture 1: overview, work behaviours, and attitudes. What is organizational behaviour: two core components. Job attitudes: study of people at work. Office space (movie: what are people that indicates a problem in. Try to centralize things to be more streamlined. Two truths and a lie: highly committed employees are good for a company, group brainstorming is great way to generate many ideas (lie) People will tend to just bounce ideas from other peoples" ideas. People come up with more ideas on their own in turn benefitting the group as a whole: depressed people are more accurate in predicting their chances for success. Depressive realism: don"t suffer from the optimism. We are overly optimistic about what"s going to happen to us. Two truths and a lie: organizations are more effective when they prevent employee conflict (lie) Positive thing: making employees more satisfied improves their performance, many managers fit the psychological profile of a psychopath.
