MGHB02H3 Final: MGHB02 Notes.docx
Document Summary
Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. The field of organizational behavior is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. The field of organizational behavior is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Organizational behavior: the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Studies how organizations can be structured more effectively and how events in their external environments affect organizations. Managing ob: management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others, evidence-based management: translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices. Strict specialization is incompatible with human needs for growth and achievement. Strong centralization and reliance on formal authority often fail to take advantage of the creative ideas and knowledge of lower-level members, who are often closer to the customer. Strict, impersonal rules lead members to adopt the minimum acceptable level of performance that the rules specify.
