MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Communication Problems, Social Isolation, Corporate Social Responsibility
9 Mar 2016
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Ch 1 introducion to the field of organizaional behaviour. Hootsuite media inc. is earning its success thru its visionary leadership, adaptability, collaboraion, creaive culture and other efecive organizaional behaviour pracices. Avoid annual performance reviews and opts for recogniion and moivaion for work. Organizaional behaviour (ob) study of what people think, feel and do in/around organizaions. Focuses on employee behaviour, decisions, percepion and emoional response. Study of how organizaion interacts with external environments. Organizaions groups of people who work interdependently to some goal / purpose. Organizaions is composed of collecive eniies and collected sense of purpose. Collecive eniies consist of humans and work in an organized way. Work is done via sharing materials, informaion and experise within. Ob emerged as a disinct ield around early 1940"s. Greek philosopher plato wrote about essence of leadership. Chinese philosopher confucius praised virtues of ethics and leadership. Adam smith talked about beneits of job division and specializaion (1776)
