Business Administration 2295F/G Chapter 1: Chap 1 Organizational Behaviour and Management.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 2295F/G
• Professor: Jeannie Gillmore

Document Summary

Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social inventions: mean that their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not necessarily things. The field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. The field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practise effective team work. Ob: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. It is interesting, important, and makes a difference. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations. Managers: acquire, allocate, and utilize physical and human resource to accomplish goals. Tend to advocate a very high degree of specialization of labour and a very high degree of coordination. Functional foremanship , supervisors would specialize in particular functions. Human relations movement: a critique of classical management and bureaucracy that advocated management styles that were more participative and oriented toward employee needs.