Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture 4: MOS 1021 – Oct 13th

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Barry Hawn

Document Summary

Describes planned organizational activities; designed to help employees acquire the job-relevant knowledge and skills; necessary to change behaviours and improve performance on in their current jobs. Describes when practice and experience lead to relatively enduring changes in individual behaviours or behaviour potential. Practical skills which are job specific knowledge; they need to be refreshed and redeveloped over time, Intrapersonal skills; things that happen within the person and can happen mentally, Interpersonal skills; tools to interact and communicate with others, and. Cultural awareness; understanding of an organizations roles and customs. Rapid change requires employees to upgrade and learn new skills. An alternative to selection; when we need someone to do something new an. Increase productivity, performance, innovation, and competitiveness organization would have options. The realities of selection is that you will sometimes find people that cannot do everything they are supposed to do some jobs. A lot of legislatively mandated training is required before you can perform.