MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organizational Culture, Workplace Wellness, Behavioural Sciences
23 Apr 2011
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Chapter 1 an introduction to organization behaviour. What is organizational behaviour (ob): ob is a field of study that seeks to understand, explain, predict and change human behavior, both individual and the entire group in the organizational context. The benefits of studying organizational behaviour: behavioural science is research that improves one"s ability to understand, predict and influence the behaviour of others, improved managerial effectiveness and bottom line, more effective influence, a career in human resources management. 2 new frameworks are chaos theory and the theory of the organization as a complex adaptive system (cas) In chaos theory, organizations are made up not of separate parts that can be controlled but made up of fields that influence our interactions, direction and decisions. In cas, complex means that organizations are made up of multiple and diverse pieces in differing relationships, adaptive means organization is constantly learning new ideas and system means that it all works together.
