MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Elton Mayo, Dependent And Independent Variables, Corporate Social Responsibility
19 Jan 2018
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Study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. Act (easiest, tell you what to do) think (2nd harder, have to teach) feel (hardest) Groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. Collective entities people interact w/ each other in an organized way. Organizations have a collective sense of purpose ex. developing internet products. Ob emerged as a distinct eld around the early 1940"s. Helps us make sense of and predict our world. Adopt more accurate models of workplace behaviour. Knowledge / tools to work with others. Ob practices affect organizations"s survival and success. Because you don"t watch the environment properly. Four perspectives of organizational effectiveness: open systems perspective, organizational leaning perspective, high performance wp perspective, stakeholder perspective. No organization is in a vacuum; different factors to think about. Organizations complex system that live" within, depend on, external environment. Organizations have subsystems, transforms inputs to outputs. Effective organization is constantly monitoring outside environment.
