MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Team Dynamics, Organizational Memory, Organizational Learning
28 Feb 2016
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Organizational study: study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. Organizations: group of people who work interdependently towards a purpose: collective entities needs communication, coordination and collaboration to achieve organizational objectives, collective sense of purpose not always well defined or agreed upon. Without it, there is no direction or unifying force. Steve jobs a company is a abstract construct, one of humanity"s amazing inventions . Helps us test personal theories (our beliefs and assumptions) Satisfy the need to understand and predict the world that we live in: adopt more evidence based models of workplace behaviours. Ob is everyone (must understand and apply topics, not only for managers and effective management) Employee performance + well being influenced by employee attitudes, formal tam dynamics, informal groups, supervisor style: opposite of what was dominate view (improve work efficiency by change work conditions, job duties (mayo"s approach which laid ob foundation))
