MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes -Human Relations Movement, Hawthorne Effect, Human Resource Management
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Social invention for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people. Field of ob is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Virtually all organization have survival as a goal. The field of ob is concerned with how organization can survive and adapt to changes. Organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals. The field of ob is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. The attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. We study these attitudes and behaviors and provide insight about effectively managing and changing them. Also studies how organizations can be structured more effectively and how events in their external environments affect organizations. How does the culture of an organization play its role. Ob is especially interested in determining why people are more or less motivated, satisfied, or prone to resign.
