BUS 272 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organizational Behavior, Electronic Body Music, Organizational Culture

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Lieketen Brummelhuis

Document Summary

Organization is a consciously coordinated social uit composed of a group of people, that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals. -- ex: manufacturing firms, hospitals, schools, churches volunteer organizations. Ob is build upon contribution from a number of behavior disciplines: Psychology seeks to measure, explain and sometimes change the behavior of humans. Social psychology blends concepts from both psychology and sociology to focus on ppl"s influence on one another major study area is behavioral change how to implement it and how to reduce barriers to its acceptance. Sociology while psych focuses on the individual sociology studies ppl in relation to their social environment or culture. They study group behavior in organizations, as well as culture, and change, formal organizational theory and structure, organizational technology, communication, power and conflict. Anthropology is the study of societies to learn about human beings and their activities.