BUS 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Absenteeism, Hawthorne Effect, Baby Boomers
2 Feb 2013
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Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Organizations essential characteristic is people not necessarily things. Organizations gave people whom present both opportunities & challenges. Organizational behaviour is about understanding people & managing them to work effectively. Organizational behaviour is concerned w/ how organizations can survive & adapt to change. Be motivated to join & remain in the organization. Carry out their basic work reliability in terms of productivity quality etc. Organizations depend on interaction & coordination among people to accomplish goals. Organizational behaviour is concerned w/ how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Organizational behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals & groups in organizations. Studies the attitudes & behaviours and provides insight about effectively managing & changing them. Studies also how organizations can be structured more effectively & how external environment factors affect them. Interesting to find out why employees become committed to an organization and what motivates them to work hard.
