ADM 2336 : Organizational Behaviour Lecture 1 Notes.docx

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

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour the field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and predicting behaviour to ultimately improve the attitudes and behaviours of groups: helps design and structure organizations more effectively, helps managers to manage more effectively. Early studies of management: attempts to prescribe the correct way to manage an organization and achieve its goals, classical view, scientific management e. g. fred taylor trying to maximize efficiency by breaking jobs down into smaller tasks. Organizational behaviour helps us to : predict organizational behaviour and events, explain organizational behaviour and events in organizations, manage organizational behaviour. Scientific method: theory hypothesis data verification (an endless cycle)