BUS 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sodexo, Human Resource Management, Kpmg
22 Jun 2014
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Organizations are inventions for accomplishing common goals through group efforts. Social invention coordinated by person rather than things ex. Regardless they present challenges which is what organizational behaviour, understanding and managing people effectively. Goal accomplishment through understanding how organizations can survive and adapt to change: ex. Goals like winning baseball games: be motivated to join and remain in organization, carry out their basic work reliably (productivity, quality, and service, be willing to continuously learn and upgrade their knowledge and skills, be flexible and innovative. Group effort is organization depend on interaction & coordination to accomplish goals. Organizational behaviour concerned with how to get people to practise effective teamwork. Intellectual & physical work done in organizations is done by groups. Attitudes & behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Those study this are interested in: how satisfied people are with their jobs, how committed they feel to the goals of organization, how supportive of minorities/women in management-
