BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Relations Movement, Hawthorne Effect, Human Resource Management
Document Summary
Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. An essential characteristic of organizations is the coordinated presence of people not things. The field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people managing them to work effectively. Organizational survival and adaptation to change are important goals. The field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. Certain behaviours are necessary for survival and adaptation. Innovation and flexibility are especially important for organizations. Organizations are based on group effort- the interaction and coordination among people to accomplish goals. Much of the intellectual and physical work done in organizations is performed by groups. The field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. The attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. How organizations can be structured more effectively. How events in the external environment affect organizations.
