BUSI 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Organizational Behavior Management, Behavioural Sciences, Human Capital
22 Jan 2018
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Common assumption is that ob is common sense: what is common sense to one person may not be to another, common sense is no substitute for the systematic study of ob. Management practice should be based on informed opinion and systematic study. 3 main goals: predicting organizational behavior. Some prediction about future behavior in organizations is possible because of the very regularity of much behavior, its accuracy require systematic study. Field of ob provides a scientific foundation that helps improve predictions of organizational events: explaining ob. Explain events in organizations and why they occur. Usually harder to explain a behavior than to predict it: a given behavior may have multiple causes, reasons people do things change over time and circumstances. Ability to understand behavior is a necessary prerequisite for effectively managing it: managing organizational behavior. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. Behavior can be predicted and explain and therefore managed.
