RSM260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Relations Movement, Hawthorne Effect, Western Electric
Document Summary
Extroversion leads to sharing ideas, so more sales can occur. Are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Organizational survival and adaptation to change are important goals: certain behaviours are necessary to facilitate that. The field of organizational behaviour is: about understanding people and managing them to work effectively (individually and as a team, concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. You are a system that is a part of a system. Organization is a subsystem of the economy or markets. Affected by certain systems or not affected by other systems. Is the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. If behaviour can be predicted and explained, it can often be managed: prediction and explanation involves analysis while management is about action. Effective management involves evidence-based management: look for scientific evidence and concrete data and applies to organizational practices. Involves translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices.
