PSYCH238 Chapter 1-20: PSYCH 238
18 Dec 2016
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Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. The eld of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. The eld of organizational behaviour is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. The eld of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Organizational behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resource management: programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain employees in organizations. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. Evidence-based management: translating principles based on the best scienti c evidence into organizational practices. Classical viewpoint: an early prescription on management that advocated a high specialization of labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making. Scienti c management: fredrick taylor"s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks.
