PSY1129 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 1 : William Lyon Mackenzie King, Hootsuite, Organizational Memory
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Chapter one: introduction to the field of organizational behaviour. Vancouver-based hootsuite is a rapidly growing technology success story through its visionary leadership, adaptability, collaborative and creative culture, and other effective organizational behaviour practices. They have avoided annual performance reviews, instead relying on developmental coaching, recognition and meaningful work to motivate and train staff. They have used organizational behaviour topics and practices such as team-oriented facilities, developmental coaching, collaboration and creativity to achieve success. Organizations: groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. Collective entities people interact with each other in an organized way: all members have a degree of interdependence with one another; they accomplish goals by sharing materials, information or expertise with co-workers. Organizations have a collective sense of purpose -- e. g. developing internet products or designing better aircraft: without this a company would have no direction or unifying force.
