MGT 4620 Lecture : Notes MGT 4620 - First 3 Classes
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Give an example not listed in the article. Why do companies buy in to fads: to avoid being left behind by their competitors. Under what circumstances: if a company hires a consultant with expertise in the subject they are looking to pursue and they completely commit to the idea, most management techniques will show some success. Difference between org. behavior and traditional approach is that org behavior doesn"t assume there is one best way to manage a company: contingency approach look at employees and tailor management style to what will work best. Textbook definition - systematic study of human behavior, attitude, and performance: what makes people tick, why do people do certain things in certain situations. One assumption is that there are reasons why people do certain things and there are tendencies in the way people behave. Organizational behavior attempts to pinpoint these tendencies and use them to make predictions.
