RSM260H1 Study Guide - Resource Allocation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Resource Management

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Social inventions: organization"s essential characteristic is the coordinated. Organizations: are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. presence of people, not necessarily things. The field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. reason. The field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Goal accomplishment: individuals are assembled into organizations for a. Behaviours necessary for survival and adaptation: motivated to join and remain in the organization work reliably: willing to continuously learn and upgrade knowledge and skills be flexible and innovative (especially important) Group effort: organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals. The field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Organizational behaviour: refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Predicting ob: predicting the behaviour of others is an essential.