MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Subjective Expected Utility, Work Unit, Contact Hypothesis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 405
• Professor: Louis Pike

Document Summary

Organizational behavior: the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. It helps us make sense of and predict our world: gives us knowledge/ tools to work with others, ob is for everyone. Organization: groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose. They are collective entries, consist of human beings who interact with each other in an organized way. All organizational members have degrees of interdependence with each other: they accomplish goals by sharing materials, information, or expertise with co workers. Members have a collective sense of purpose. Organizational effectiveness: the ultimate dependent variable in ob. Views orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)s as (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)s that (cid:862)li(cid:448)e(cid:863) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) a(cid:374) external environment. Depend on the external environment for resources (raw materials, financial resources, information, equipment, etc) They have subsystems that transform inputs to outputs. Ex: raw materials transformed into outputs that are exported into the external environment.