BUS 272- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 78 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Lieketen Brummelhuis

Document Summary

Organizational behavior: is a field of study that looks at the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations for the purpose of applying such k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge to(cid:449)a(cid:396)ds i(cid:373)p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)"s effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:374)ess. Behaviour in organizations can be found at three levels the individual, the group, and the organization. Organization is a consciously coordinated social unit, composed of a group of people that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals. We need to study work-life balances in an organization. Many business disciplines like accounting, finance, marketing and economics are deriving their principles from ob concepts. This explains the pervasiveness of ob in an organization: behavior is predictable and systematic study of behavior is a means to make accurate predictions. (this is because some consistencies are observed) Intuition should be supplemented by a systematic approach to improve predictive ability.