MGT262H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Visible Minority, Tom Peters
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Admired companies associated with the organization (promote nutrition, health and wellness. Organizations social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social inventions essential characteristic being the coordinated presence of people, not necessarily things: the field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Goal accomplishment: the field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how, for survival and adaptation, people have to organizations can survive and adapt to change. Be motivated and remain in the organization. Carry out their basic work reliably, in terms of productivity, reliability and service. Be willing to continuously learn and upgrade their skills. Be flexible and innovative: tom peters advises firms to get innovative or get dead . Group effort dependable on interaction and coordination; either short projects or long-term group effort: field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork.
