MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tacit Knowledge, Triple Bottom Line, Organizational Commitment
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Organizational behavior is a eld of study that seeks to understand, explain, predict and change human behavior, both on the individual and collective in the organizational context. Human capital is the knowledge that employees posses and generate, including their skills, experience, and creativity. The goals of ob are to continually grow human capital of organizations by developing talent, synergy, and effectiveness of the people whom work in them. Ob is studied in a few levels; individual, group level, organization wide level, inter-organizational level (network). Ob was derived from numerous elds of science. Hawthorne studies: studies conducted at the hawthorne plant of western electric in the 1920s and 30s that demonstrated the impact of psychological processes and peer pressure on individual behavior, peer pressure, and performance. Engineering: applied science of energy and matter. A major breakthrough in this eld with respect to ob was done by frederick taylor.
