ADM2336- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Understanding, explaining and improving the attitudes of behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations: how orgs can be designed structurally more effectively, how managers can manage more effectively. Study of orgs started with the industrial revolution. Approach recognizes that there is no best way to manage, sees benefit to both approaches. The general answer to many questions in organizations is: it depends . An appropriate management style depends on the demands of the situation. Used for determining whether or not a hypothesis is supported: theory, hypothesis, data, verification. Hr management: study focuses on the applications of ob theories and principles in organizations. Strategic management: field of study devoted to exploring the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization"s profitability. Job performance- employee behaviours that contribute, either positively or negatively, to organizational goal accomplishment. Worker at starbucks greets, takes orders, etc: adaptive task performance (adaptability, responses to tasks demands that are unpredictable, novel, or unusual, ex.
