ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Commitment, Juggling, Absenteeism

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Indira Somwaru

Document Summary

Ob the field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Juggling work and family responsibilities: absenteeism, lack of organizational commitment, re-structuring and organizational change. Goal accomplishment: the field of ob is concerned with how organizations can survive and how they can adapt to change. Why study ob: prediction, explanation, and management of ob, explanations of events in organizations, the 35 best companies to work for are practitioners of the goals of ob. Integrative model of ob: ob is multidisciplinary, focuses on 3 levels of analysis: individual, group, and organizational, ob attempts to improve organizational effectiveness and quality of work life. Job satisfaction: motivation, stress, trust, justice, and ethics, perception.