ORGS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organizational Culture, Decision-Making, Organizational Commitment

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 1000
• Professor: Stephen Friedman

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Organizational behaviour defined: organizational behaviour: ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Field of study that focuses on the application. Field of study devoted to exploring the product. Ex: determining the relationship between firms diversification and firm profitability: theories and practices for ob can be drawn from various disciplines- organizational psychology, social psychology, anthropology, and models of economics. : using scientific methods to design optimal and efficient: max weber associated with the term bureaucracy , bureaucracy: An integrative model of ob: see figure 1-1. Individual mechanisms that directly affect job performance and organizational commitment. Good people are also rare- effective management of ob should be valuable: inimitable. Ex: manufacturing practices, building layouts, etc can be copied. They also spring from social dynamics within a given organization. The belief that at best one-eighth, or 12% of organizations will.