PSYCH238 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Western Electric, Corporate Social Responsibility, Mary Parker Follett
12 Sep 2017
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Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. The basic characteristic f organizations is that they involve the coordinated efforts of people working together to accomplish common goals. The field of organizational behaviour is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively. It is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change. It is concerned with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Certain behaviours are necessary for survival and adaptation: be motivated to join and remain in the organization, carry out their basic work reliably", be willing to continuously learn and upgrade knowledge and skills, be flexible and innovative. Organizational behaviour refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizational context. The field of organizational behaviour systematically studies these attitudes and behaviours and provides advice about how organizations can manage them effectively. The goals of this field include the prediction, explanation, and management of organizational behaviour.
