Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Resource Management, Organizational Culture, Job Satisfaction

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

Document Summary

Job performance and organizational commitment: individual mechanisms. Job satisfaction, stress, motivation, trust justice & ethics, learning & decision making: individual characteristics. Ability and personality & cultural values: group mechanisms. Teams (processes & communication, characteristics & diversity: organizational mechanisms. Ob principles applied across cultures: cross cultural differences, international corporations, expatriation workers work and lives outside his or her native country, managing diversity. Building a conceptual argument: resource-based view of organization. What exactly makes resources valuable ->creates long term profits. Value of resources depends on: rare, inimitable (cannot be imitated) Numerous small decisions: small decisions day in and day out. Socially complex resources: culture, teamwork, trust, reputation: research evidence. Of organization won"t believe connection between how they manage and profit. Of the firms that make comprehensive changes, only will persist with their practices long enough to derive economic benefits. Only 1/8 will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first.