RSM260H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Western Electric, Human Capital, Ideal Type
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Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people not necessarily of things. The field of organizational behavior is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Virtually all organizations have survival as a goal. The field of organizational behavior is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Innovation and flexibility, which provide for adaption to change, are especially important for contemporary organizations. The final component of the definition of organizations is that they are based on group effort. Organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals. Much of the intellectual and physical work done in organizations are done by groups. Informal grouping occurs in all organizations because friendships develop and individuals form informal alliances to accomplish work. The quality of communication and morale through informal groups have an impact on goal achievement.
