MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Relations Movement, Ideal Type, Critical Role
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Important aspects of organizational behavior include: organizational culture, communication, motivation and learning. Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social invention: when organizations are social inventions, it means their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not necessarily things. The field of organizational behavior is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively, concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change and how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Group effort: organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals. Organizational behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Jeffrey pfeffer"s practices of companies that are effective through their management of people: Incentive pay: participation and empowerment, teams, training and skill development etc. There"s increasing evidence that management practices and organizational behaviour not only influence employee attitudes and. The regularity of behaviour in organizations permits the prediction of its future occurrence.
