TLI 11200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Behavior, Centrality, Jeffrey Skilling
13 Feb 2018
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What impact you want to have on society. Organization: a consciously coordinated social unit composed of 2 or more people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals. Organizational behavior: field that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization"s effectiveness. Manager: someone who gets things done through other people in organizations. Technical skills: the ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise. All jobs require some specialized expertise, and many people develop their technical skills on the job. Human skills: the ability to work with, understand, and motivate other people, both individually and in groups. Conceptual skills: the metal ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations. Leader is someone that can strategize, create good change, get things done. Argument is that 3 circles represent 3 different calls to action.
