Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Summary Notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Matt Mc Larnon

Document Summary

What are organizations: organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group, social inventions effort, organizations are social inventions because their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, the field of ob is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively, goal accomplishment, certain behaviours are necessary for survival and adaptation, the field of ob is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change, people have to, group effort skills. What is organizational behaviour: organizational behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and, the discipline of ob studies these attitude and behaviours and provides insight groups in organizations about effectively managing and changing them, people who study ob are concerned with attitudes how people are with their jobs, how committed they feel to the goals of the organization, or how supportive they are of promoting minorities, etc.