Business Administration 2295F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Parker Follett, Human Relations Movement, Jeffrey Pfeffer

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 2295F/G
• Professor: stedieu

Document Summary

What are organizations: organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social inventions: organizations are social inventions their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not things, the field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Group effort: this means that organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals, the field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. What is organizational behavior: organizational behaviour refers to the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations, provides insight into effectively managing and changing organizational attitudes and behaviors. Goals of organizational behaviour: effectively predicting, explaining, and managing behaviour hat occurs in organizations. Managing organizational behaviour: management is defined as the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others, managers acquire, allocate, and utilize physical and human resources to accomplish goals.