COMMERCE 1BA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Relations Movement, Mary Parker Follett, Human Resource Management
10 Jan 2017
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Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. By saying that an organization is a social invention, we mean that their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not necessarily things. Organizations have people who present both opportunities and challenges. The eld of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. All organizations have survival as a goal. The eld of organizational behaviour is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Certain behaviours are necessary for survival and adaption: people have to. Be motivated to join and remain in the organization. Carry out their basic work reliability, in terms of productivity, quality and service; Be willing to continuously learn and upgrade their knowledge and skills; and. Innovation and exibility, which provide for adaption to change, are especially important to contemporary organizations. Organizations depend on the interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals.
