BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Corporate Social Responsibility, Nepotism, Human Relations Movement
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Chapter 1 organizational behavior and: organizations social inventions (people make them) for accomplishing common. Management goals through group effort: concerned with how orgs can survive and adapt to change, necessary behaviours for survival: Prediction is important (need to be trained) Doesn"t guarantee we can explain the reason for behaviour or develop a strategy to manage it: explaining ob. Prediction and explanation aren"t the same thing i. e. ancient egyptians could predict the sun would rise but couldn"t explain it. Understanding behaviour is necessary when trying to manage it: managing ob. Management art of getting things accomplished in orgs through others. If we truly understand a behaviour then we can most likely manage it. Strict chain of command in which each member reports to only a single superior. Criteria for selection and promotion based on impersonal technical skills rather than nepotism or favouritism.
