MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mcgraw-Hill Education, John Kotter, Wield
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What are organizations: social inventions for accomplishing goals through group efforts. Concerned with how organizations survive, adapt to change and hopefully, prosper. This is determined by the business strategy, the managerial strategy and culture of the firm: most organizations today require some form of group effort. This can take many forms: coordination among individuals to accomplish organizational goals, permanent work teams, short term project teams, friendships, alliances (sounds like survivor) What is organizational behavior: the study of attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. We will study: personality and learning, perception, attributions and judgment of others, values and attitudes, motivation at work. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. The classical viewpoint: emerged from the military and early factories, high degree of specialization of labour, each department tend to its own affairs, centralized decision making from management provides coordination. Supporting the classical view was scientific management a concept developed by fredrick taylor (1856 .
