[ADM2336] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (23 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: Rumaisa Shaukat

Document Summary

Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing goals through group effort. The most important part are your people (efficiency, productivity must invest and depend on your employees). They have vision statements and have structure and design in order to achieve their goals. Vision is where you want to be in the future, and mission statement tells what you exist for and what differentiates you from competitors. There is a goal with a coordinated effort needed by everyone to achieve your goal. Organizational behavior: the study of human behavior (attitude, behavior of individuals and groups). (ob"s main concern: predicting, explaining, and managing). The goal of organizational behavior is to learn how to predict how employees will behave, preform and to learn how to explain and manage your people ex) if you are lenient your employees may take advantage. Also concerned with people"s behavior in the context of work. Can make links of employee behavior to things like personality and previous experience.