COMMERCE 1BA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Resource Management, Organizational Culture, Human Capital
13 Apr 2018
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Organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. How to get people to practise effective teamwork. Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing commons goals through group effort: social inventions. Organizations are social inventions meaning their essential characteristics is the coordinated presence of people, not things. Organizations might not own a large amount of capital although they have people who contribute largely in terms of opportunities and challenges: goal accomplishment. Certain behaviours are necessary for survival and adaptation, people have to. Be motivated to join and remain in the organization. Carry out their basic work reliably, in terms of productivity, quality and service. Be willing to continuously learn and upgrade their knowledge and skills. Contemporary organizations are concerned with these basic but especially important activities, flexibility and innovation which foster adaptation to change: group effort. Organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals.
