MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility, Virtual Work, Structural Capital

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 405
• Professor: Sathy Sritharakumar

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour is the study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. Organizations are groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose or a common goal. They are collective entities and have a collective sense of purpose. Organizational behaviour tends to improve the organizations success and survival; leadership, teamwork employee engagement, training, reward, recognition etc. Organizational effectiveness: a broad concept represented by several perspectives including the organizations fit with the external environment, internal subsystems, configuration for high performance, emphasis on organizational learning, and the ability to satisfy the needs of key stakeholders. This has too many subset labels such as success, goodness, health etc. Goal attainment is a poor way of viewing the organizational effectiveness because any company can set easy goals to achieve but still might put the organization out of business. E. g. gain profit at a loss of cutback on training which will be harmful in the long run.