BUSI 2101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Job Enrichment, Interactional Justice, Trait Theory
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Organizational behavior (ob) is the field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. The study of organizations and groups and individuals within an organizational context. Method of experience people hold firmly to some belief because it is consistent with their own experience and observations (explicit knowledge). Method of intuition people hold firmly to some belief because it just stands to reason it seems obvious or self-evident. Method of authority people hold firmly to some belief because some respected official, agency, or source has said it is so. Method of science people accept some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate that result using a series of samples, settings, and methods (implicit knowledge). Organizational behaviour: a field of study that looks at the impact that individual groups, and structure have on behaviour within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization"s effectiveness.
