ORGS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Weighted Arithmetic Mean, Human Relations Movement, Human Resource Management

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 1000
• Professor: Marnie Smith

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour is commonly mistaken for two other fields of study: human resource management focuses on applications of ob theories and principles, strategic management explores the project choices and industry characteristics affecting an organizations profitability. Two primary outcomes in organizational behaviour: job performance, organizational commitment. Two outcomes in organizational behaviour are influenced by key individual mechanisms. Relations must be considered in several important contexts: personal attributes of the individual, the attributes and processes that characterize the group which the individual is a part of, the structure and culture of the organization. Studies show effective organizational behaviour is linked to the following: company performance, employee productive, firm productivity, firm survival. Research in organizational behaviour tends to exhibit the scientific method and tries to find a correlation between different things. Rule of one-eighth- the belief that at best one-eighth, or 12 percent, of organizations will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first.