Organizational Behavior - Chapters 1 & 2
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- Organizational Behavior
- the study of individual behavior and group dynamics in organizations.
- Challenge
- the call to competition, contest, or battle
- change
- the transformation or modification of an organization and/or its stakeholders
- opportunities
- favorable times or chances for progress and advancement
- dynamics on organizations (3)
- psychosocial, interpersonal and behavioral
- Variables that affect human behavior (6)
- jobs, work design, communication, performance appraisal, organizational design, organizational structure
- Internal Perspective
- Examining individuals history and personal values
- External Perspective
- examining surrounding externaml events and environmental forces
- Interdisciplinary Influences (6)
- psychology, sociology, engineering, anthropology, medicine, management
- Task
- an organizations mission, purpose, or goal for existing
- People
- the human resources of the organization
- Structure
- The manner in which an organization's work is designed at the micro level
- Technology
- The tools, nowledge and/or techniques used to transform inputs into outputs
- Formal Organization
- the official, legitimate and most visible part of the system
- Informal Organization
- the unofficial and less visible part of the system
- Four challenges to managers relating to change in organziations
- globalization, workforce diversity, ethics and character, technological innovation
- Objective Knowledge
- knowledge that results from research and scientific activities
- Skill Development
- the mastery of skills essential to succesful functioning in organizations
- International
- an individual's or organization's held nationally is strongly in consciousness
- Globalization
- the world is free from national boundaries and that it is a borderless world
- Multinational organizations
- organization recognized in doing business in several countries
- Transnational
- the global viewpoint supercedes national issues
- Expatriate manager
- a manager who works in a coutnry other than his home country
- Consequential Theory
- An ethical theory that emphasizes the consequences or results of behavior
- Rule-Based Theory
- an ethical theory that emphasizes the character of the act itself rather than its consequences
- Character Theory
- an ethical theory that emphasizes the character, personal virtues and integrity of the individual
- Distributive Justice
- fairness of the outcomes that individuals receive in an organization
- Procedural Justice
- fairness by which the outcomes are allocated in an organization
- Social Responsibility
- the obligation of an organization to behave in ethical ways
- Expert System
- computer-based application using a representation of human expertise in a specialized field of knowledge to solve problems
- Telecommuting
- transmitting work from a home computer to the office using a modem
- Satellite offices
- large facilities broken into smaller workplaces near employees' homes