ADMS 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter ch 1: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Behavior, Electronic Body Music

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2400
• Professor: Leonard Eli Karakowsky

Document Summary

Organizational behavior a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organization. Often applied to jobs, work, absenteeism, employment turnover, productivity, human performance, and management. Strategic management- focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect the organization"s profitability. Social psychology- research on satisfaction, emotions and team processes. Sociology research- vital to research on team characteristics and organizational structure. Anthropology- help inform the study of organizational culture. Behavior- is generally predictable, and systematic study of behavior is a means to making reasonably accurate predictions. Systematic study- looking at relationships, attempting to attribute causes and effects, and basing out conclusions on scientific evidence that is, on data gathered under controlled conditions and measured and interpreted in a reasonably rigorous manner. Evidence-based management (ebm) complements systematic study by basing managerial decisions on the best available scientific evidence. Adds to intuition gut feeling", what makes other tick.