HROB 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hawthorne Effect, Ideal Type, Corporate Social Responsibility

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2090
• Professor: Bahramirad

Document Summary

Learning objectives checklist: organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. The basic characteristic of organizations is hat they involve the coordination efforts of people working together to accomplish common goals: organizational behaviour refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in an organizational context. The field of organizational behaviour systematically studies these attitudes and behaviours and provides advice about how organizations can manager them effectively. The goals of the field include the prediction, explanation and management of organizational behaviour: management is the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. Taylor"s scientific management and weber"s views on bureaucracy are in line with the classical position. Important activities include routine communication, traditional management, networking, and human resource management. Managers pursue agendas through networking and use intuition to guide decision making. Organizations social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Organizational behaviour the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations.