MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Group Dynamics, Reverse Engineering, Team Dynamics
29 Oct 2015
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Chapter 1: introduction to the field of organizational behavior. The study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. It looks at employee behavior, decisions, perceptions and emotional responses. Also studies how organizations interact with their external environments. Studies these topics at multiple levels of analysis: the individual, team, and organizations. Groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. Organizations have consisted of people who communicate, coordinate and collaborate with each other to achieve a common objective. Key features: collective entities: consist of human beings that interact with each other in an organized way. All organizational member have degrees of interdependence with each other they accomplish goals by sharing info, materials or expertise. Requires minimal level of communication, coordination and collaboration to achieve org. goals: collective sense of purpose: it isn"t always well defined or agreed on.
