COMM 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Relations Movement, Henry Mintzberg, Human Resource Management
28 Feb 2013
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Social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Essential characteristic: has coordinated people, not things. The people present the opportunities and challenges. Ob is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. People are put into organizations for a reason. Ob is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Organizations are based on a group effort hey depend in interactions and coordination. Most of the intellectual and physical work is done by groups. There can be permanent work teams or short term project teams. Informal grouping when friendships develop and there are informal groups for work: the quality of this informal contact in terms of communication and morale can have a strong impact on goal achievement. Ob is concerned with how to get people to practise effective teamwork. Refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Studies these attributes and behaviours and provides insight about effectively managing and changing them.
