ORGS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Meta-Analysis, Performance Management, Southwest Airlines

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 1000
• Professor: John Paschakis

Document Summary

Admirable companies develop their corporate culture so as to reflect the talents of their workers as they work towards achieving organizational goals. Embracing and harnessing the diversity of employees. Organizational behavior (ob) field of study devoted to understanding, explaining and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Involves understanding the motivations behind different behaviors within an organization and the implications of them: it is used to deal with challenges in the workplace. 2: for example, this department"s studies would determine the relationship between firm diversification (=when a firm expands into a new product segment) and firm profitability. Since the theories and concepts found in ob are drawn from many other disciplines (including psychology, sociology etc. ) the diversity lends a unique quality to this study. Human resources management field of study that focuses on the applications of. Strategic management field of study devoted to exploring the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization"s profitability.