MGT 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Structure, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance
8 May 2020
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An interdisciplinary social science engaged in the systematic study of individual, group and organizational processes. People problems", bosses poor communication skills, employees lack of motivation, conflicts between team members, overcoming employee resistance to a company reorganization, low performance, unable to lead, unable to adapt to change, Poor collaboration, in adequate growth opportunity, managing remotely, Group: social structure of groups, leadership, power, negotiation. To explain, predict, and control behavior in organizational settings. To improve organizational effectiveness by focusing on motivations, attitudes, and actions of people in organizations. Methods in ob: explain the difference between a dependent and an independent variable. Dependent: response affected by an independent variable, it changes while the independent variable doesn"t. Examples would be performance, learning, satisfaction, commitment, turnover. Independent: the presumed cause of a change in the dependent variables. can be individual, group, or organization system variables. Organizational- structure, culture: explain the difference between a mediator and a moderator (or contingency variable).
