PSYCH 338 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Politicking With Larry King, Nepotism, Scientific Management

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 338
• Professor: Doug Brown

Document Summary

What are organizations: organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. The field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. The field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Why study organizational behaviour: organizational behaviour is interesting, organizational behaviour is important, organizational behaviour makes a difference. Goals of organizational behaviour: management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others, managers acquire, allocate, and utilize physical and human resources to accomplish goals. The goals of organizational behaviour: predicting organizational behaviour. Being able to predict organizational behaviour does not guarantee that we can explain the reason for the behaviour and develop and effective strategy to manage it: explaining organizational behaviour. Ancient societies were capable of predicting the regular setting of the sun but were unable to explain where it went or why it went there: managing organizational behaviour.