Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Satisfaction, Absenteeism, Job Performance

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Victoria Digby

Document Summary

Talks about attitudes and behaviours at work. When you say, (cid:1688)i don"t like my job(cid:1689) you are forming an attitude about your job. Behaviour could be when you quit your job. Organization behaviour defined as a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Not until the 1920s that employees were really recognized as human beings with particular attitudes, needs and social connections at work. Textbook discusses main topics around performance and commitment. We predict these two outcomes based on stress, motivation, leader behaviours, and justice. Evidence base management approach we promote management of employees in a way that incorporates best available scientific findings in making decisions. Need to understand how to find good research. Theory is a set of assertions about how and why variables are related. They made not always be accurate as they are simply one"s proposed understanding how and why variables are related.