MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Presenteeism, Confirmation Bias, Proactivity
6 Oct 2017
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Organization behaviour: study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. Organization: groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose. Organization behaviour (ob): helps usmake sense of and predict our work, question personal beliefs/assumptions, adopt more accurate models of workplace behavior, knowledge/tools to work with others, organizational behavior is for everyone, helps everyone, not just managers. Benefits of studying organizational behaviour: mastery, psychic ability, wizardry. Four perspective of organizational effectiveness: open systems perspective, (inputs, raw material, human resources. Experimenting: knowledge sharing: communicating, info systems, internal learning, training, observing, knowledge use: awareness of knowledge, sense making (locating knowledge), autonomy to apply know, knowledge storage: human memory, documentation, Globalization: economics, social, and cultural connectivity with people in other parts of the world, due to better communication and transportation system, effects of globalization on organizations, larger markets, lower costs, more innovation.
