COMM 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Baby Boomers, Politicking With Larry King, Absenteeism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 151
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Coordinated presence of people not necessarily things (equipment) Ob is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Ob is concerned with how organizations survive and adapt to change. Carry out basic work reliably in terms of productivity, quality and service. Willing to learn and upgrade knowledge and skills. Org"s depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish goals. Most of the intellectual and physical work is accomplished in groups. Whether they are permanent or project-based groups. Informal grouping occurs in all org"s because friendships develop and people form informal alliances to accomplish work. The quality of this contact in terms of communication and moral can have a strong impact on goal achievement. Ob is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Organizational behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations.