PS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sunk Costs, Step One, Observational Learning
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Week one introduction to ob: organizations social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social inventions: essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, the field of ob is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Group effort: at the most general level, organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish goals. What is ob: ob the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations, goal of ob is effectively predicting, explaining, and managing behaviour that occurs in organizations. If a behaviour can be predicted and explained, it can often be managed. If prediction and explanation constitute analysis, then management constitutes action evidence into organizational practices (cid:373)o(cid:396)e likel(cid:455) to a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e goals. Week one research in ob: research is finding out about the world through objective and systematic observations/information gathering, ob researchers follow strict methods to conduct quality research, separates ob f(cid:396)o(cid:373) opi(cid:374)io(cid:374), i(cid:374)tuitio(cid:374), (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) se(cid:374)se(cid:863)
