INNOVENT 201 Lecture Notes - Human Relations Movement, Human Resource Management, Hawthorne Effect

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Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Coordinated presence of people: people are important for the organization since modern organizations can sell products without owning much of anything and could function without little physical capital. Goal accomplishment: individuals are assembled into organizations for a reason. Thus it is important to understand how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Group effort: organizations are based on group effort. Thus, it is important to know how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Explain the concept of organizational behavior and describe the goals of the field. Organizational behavior refers to attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. The discipline of organizational behavior systematically studies these attitudes and behaviours and provides insight about effectively managing and changing them. It also studies how organizations can be structured more effectively and how events in their external environments affect organizations.

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