BUS 272 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Closed System, Technological Change, Tethering

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Sam Thiara

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Ob is the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. Two or more people that strive to a goal and objective. )t looks at employee behavior, decisions, perceptions, and emotional responses. Examines how individuals and teams in organizations relate to each other and to their counterparts in other organizations. Also encompasses the study of how organizations interact with their external environments, particularly in the context of employee behavior and decisions. Ob researchers systematically study these topics at multiple levels of analysis, namely, at the level of the individual, team, and organization (cid:523)internal(cid:524). Organizations are group who work interdependently toward some purpose. One key feature of organizations is that they are collective entities. Second key feature is that their members have a collective sense of purpose. Comprehend and predict workplace event inherent drive to make sense of what is going on around them. (ighly complex and ambiguous context that have a profound effect on our lives.