BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organizational Behavior, Ideal Type, Internal Validity
Document Summary
Organizations are social inventions for accomplish common goals through group effort. Social inventions: social inventions simply refers to the idea that organizations essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not necessarily things. The field of organizational behavior is about understanding people and managing them to work efficiently. What is organizational behaviour: organizational behavior is the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups. Predicting organizational behaviour: the regularity of behavior in org permits the prediction of its future occurrence. Explaining organizational behaviour: explain why some events occur, org behavior is interested in determining why people are more/ less motivated, satisfied or prone to resign. Managing organizational behaviour: management is the art of getting things accomplished in org through others. If behavior can be predicted and explained, it can be controlled and managed: evidence-based management: translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into org practices.
