BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behavioural Sciences
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What are organizations: organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Innovation and flexibility, which foster adaptation to change, are especially important for contemporary organizations. Group effort: organizations are based on group effort, this means that organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals, much of the work done in organizations is quite literally performed by groups (teams) What is organizational behaviour: organizational behaviour refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations, the discipline of ob studies these attitudes and behaviours and provides insight about effectively managing and changing them. Human resource management: hr management refers to programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain employees in organizations. Learning about ob will improve your understanding of hr. Goals of organizational behaviour: chief goals of ob are effectively predicting, explaining, and managing behaviour that occurs in organizations.
