BUSI 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Crowdsourcing, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment
26 Sep 2020
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Attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. How jobs can be organized more effectively. How individual / contextual cars affect orgs. How to info overload, groupthink, commitment escalation impact decision making. Ie ethical decisions, create innovative products, solve probs, get along with coworkers. More tricky -- one behaviour may have multiple causes. Quit job from pay, bored, discrimination and more. Management - art of gettings things done through others. Concerned with taking action (goals 1 and 2 are concerned with analysis) If behaviour can be explained, it can often be managed and replicated. Take info + principles from research and implementing them in practice. 1% of cases have managers guided by research. All jobs have potential of being automated (42% rn) Ob builds own skills in areas critical to real world jobs. Historically wanted the single correct way to organize. No longer all human power, hydro, electric, coal etc. Companies should look like gov"t and legal system (legal-rational)
