MGHD27H3 : Book Notes
Document Summary
What are organizations: organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social inventions: essential characteristic of an organization is the coordinated presence of people, ob is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Group effort: organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals, ob is concerned with how to get people to practise effective teamwork. What is organizational behaviour: organizational behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Ob provides insight about effectively managing and changing behaviours: studies how organizations can be structured more effectively and how events in their external environments affect organizations. Important areas of ob include cooperation, conflict, innovation, resignation, or ethical lapses. Issues in ob include organizational culture and its role in an organization"s success, employee learning, training, and career planning, motivation and compensation, and communication.
