Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 79 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Carol- Lynn Chambers

Document Summary

Lo1. 1 define organizations and describe their basic characteristics. Lo1. 2 explain the concept of organizational behaviour and describe the goals of the field. Lo1. 3 define management and describe what managers do to accomplish goals. Lo1. 4 contrast the classical viewpoint of management with that advocated by the human relations movement. Lo1. 6 explain what managers do their roles, activities, agendas for action, and thought processes. Lo1. 7 describe the four contemporary management concerns facing organizations and how organizational behaviour can help organizations understand and manage these concerns. What are organizations: organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort, key characteristics of organizations, social inventions, goal accomplishment, group effort. Social inventions: an essential characteristic of organizations is the coordinated presence of people, not things, the field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Innovation and flexibility are especially important for organizations.