Organisational Behavior - Book Summary

Organizational behavior

Introduction to management and organizational behavior

OB – challenges to managers

Organizations What are Organizations social entities goal-directed inextricably linked to their environment have nominal boundaries employ deliberately designed coordinated activities approaches => achieving their objectives Why Exists Exsist to allow activitys to be undertaken that would be impossible without the structure of an orginisation Organisation are used to direct and control the activites of employees And combine them in a way in order to make a profit Three types of goverance Hierarchical governance Intermediate goverance – Contractual – netwroks and alliances Market governance More effective then alternatives Offer efficiences compared to alternatives Effects Increase specialisation and division of labour Use large-scale technologies (economies of scale and scope) Economise on transaction costs Exert control, power and influence (internally and externally) Management – What Managment is a process that invloves planning, orginising, leading and controlling resources to achive goals People managemenet the procees of trying to achive goals in organizations with and through people Organizational Behavior What Study of behaviour of individuals and groups on organiazatioal context Two distinct features Interdisciplinary The combination of many differenent subject that all growth with each other Psychology, sociology, political science, economics, etc Explanatoroy Set out to explain the