BSAD 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Burton Snowboards, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Commitment

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BSAD 120
• Professor: Ante Glavas

Document Summary

Organizational mechanisms: organizational culture, organizational structure. Group mechanisms: leadership: styles and behaviors, leadership: power and negotiation, teams: processes and communication, teams: characteristics and diversity. Individual characteristics: ability, personality and cultural values. Individual mechanisms: job satisfactions, stress, motivation, trust, justice, ethics, learning and decision making. A field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. People and groups + things = organization. Groups that work interdependently toward some purpose: structured patterns of interaction, coordinated tasks, share a set of values. Examples: uvm, city of burlington (public, burton snowboards (private, red cross (non-profit) Strategic management: focuses on product choices. Industry trends and characteristics: emphasis on profitability. Human resource management: people are your best asset, focuses on people, compensation and benefits, training and development, performance. Inimitable: history and collective wisdom, numerous small decisions socially complex resources (trust and organizational culture)