Business Administration 2295F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Corporate Social Responsibility, Hawthorne Effect, Industrial Engineering

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 2295F/G
• Professor: Hayden Woodley

Document Summary

Organizations social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort companies, teams, sororities, newscast team. Essential characteristic of organizations is coordinated presence of people (not. Ob is about understanding people and managing them to work necessarily things) effectively. All organizations have survival as a goal along with specific individual goals. Ob concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Organizations are based off group effort depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish goals. Informal groupings occur from friendships and alliances to accomplish work quality of informal contact in terms of communication and morale can have strong impact on goal achievement. Ob concerned with how to get people to practise effective teamwork. Organizational behaviour attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Insight about effectively managing & changing attitudes/behaviours, how to structure organizations effectively, and how external events affect organizations.