BUS 272 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Job Design, Group Dynamics, Organizational Culture

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Dianne Cyr

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour: impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behaviour within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization"s effectiveness. Organization: consciously coordinated social unit, composed of a group of people, that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals, Figure 1-1, p. 7, toward an ob discipline. Seeks to measure, explain and sometimes change the behaviour of humans and other animals. Learning theorists, personality theorists, counselling psychologists, and industrial and organizational psychologists. Looks at learning, perception, personality, emotions, training, leadership effectiveness, needs and motivational forces, job satisfaction, individual decision making, performance appraisal, attitude measurement, employee selection techniques, work design, and work stress. Blends concepts from psychology and sociology to focus on people"s influence on one another. Studies people in relation to their social environment or culture. Group behaviour in organizations, formal and complex organizations.