Terms
What is organizations?
Social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group efforts
What is human capital?
knowledge, skills, and abilities embodied in an organizations employees
What are the basic characteristics of organizations?
social inventions, goal accomplishments, and group effects
What is organizational behaviour?
refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations
What is social capital?
social resources that individuals obtain from participation in a social structure
What are some goals of organizational behaviour?
Predicting, explaining, and managing
What is the human relations movement?
Called attention to disfunctional aspects of traditional management and advocated more people oreinted styles of management
What is evidence based management?
translating principle based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices
What are the 4 basic types of activities for managers?
Routine communication, Traditional management, Networking, and Human resource management
What is bureaucracy and who invented it?
What is scientific managment and who invented it?
using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization standardization of work tasks. invented by fred taylor
What are the 6 contemporary management concerns?
DEI, Talent management and employees engagement, Alternative work arrangement, CSR, Advanced technology, Road map
individuals positive psychlogical state of development that is characterized by optimism, hope, and resilience
What is the contingency approach?
there is no best way to manage something, it is dependent on the situation
What are some managerial roles? Provide examples for each
Interpersonal roles (leader, figure head)
Informational roles (monitor, spokesperson)
Decisional roles (entrepreneur, negoiator)