MHR 405- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Chapter 1: introduction to the field of organizational. Study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. Looks at employee behaviour, decisions, perceptions and emotional responses. Study of how organizations interact with their external environments, particularly regarding employee behaviour and decisions: organizations: groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose, collective entities - communicate in an organized way. Historical foundations: emerged as a distinct field around the 1940s, but has been studied for centuries, plato spoke about leadership, confucius discussed virtues of ethics and leadership, max weber - rational organizations, work ethic, charismatic leadership. Leverages human capital, employee commitment, creativity, visionary leadership, and corporate social responsibility: organizational effectiveness: ultimate dependent variable - ob theories and practices ultimately try to improve the organization"s effectiveness. Internal subsystems effectiveness: defines effectiveness by how well the company operates internally - how well it transforms inputs into outputs, organizational efficiency (productivity): ratio of inputs to outputs.
