MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Elton Mayo, Organizational Learning, Organizational Behavior
3 May 2016
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Chapter 1 - introduction to the field of organizational behavior. Organizational behavior: the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. Organizations: group of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. Collective entities: people interact with each other in an organized way. Organizations have a collective sense of purpose ex: developing internet products or designing better aircraft. Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field around the early 1940s. Greek philosopher plato wrote about the essence of leadership. Chinese philosopher confucius extolled the virtues of ethics and leadership. Harvard professor elton mayo made created the school human relations school of management. Helps us make sense of and predict our world. Adopt more accurate models of workplace behavior. Helps everyone, not just managers everyone is a manager . Ob practices affect organization"s survival and success. Organizational effectiveness: the outcome that most ob theories are ultimately trying to achieve.
