MHR 405 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fundamental Attribution Error, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 405
• Professor: Neil Rothenberg

Document Summary

Organizations are groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose. Organizational behavior is a field of study that seeks understand, explain, predict, and change human behavior, both individual and collective, in the organizational context. People study organizational behavior to understand, influence, and predict organizational events. Organizational behavior anchors include multidisciplinary, systematic, contingency, multiple levels of analysis, and open systems anchor. Formal organization - includes its official, legitimate, and most visible parts, such as its technology and structure. Informal organization- includes the unofficial and less visible elements such as beliefs, assumptions, values, and unspoken norms of behaviour. Ghost stands for goals, human resources, organizational structure, and technology. Exhibit 1. 4 outlines the overall framework of organizational functioning including the ghost model. The two-way arrows connecting the boxes within the internal organization are there to remind you that various parts both affect and are affected by each other.