HROB 2090- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 28 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2090
• Professor: Thomas Sasso

Document Summary

Social inventions: when we say that organizations are social inventions, we mean that their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not necessarily thing, also, many service organizations, such as consulting firms, have little physical. Still, these organizations have people people who present both opportunities and challenges. The field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Goal accomplishment: the field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Certain behaviours are necessary for survival and adaptation. Innovation and flexibility, which foster adaptation to change, are especially important for contemporary organizations. Group effort: the field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. You are probably familiar with many human resource practices such as requirement and selection, compensation, and training and development. Organizational behaviour is important: what happens in organizations often has a profound impact on people.