this assignment, you will submit a three- to five-page paper that summarizes the main points in Chapter 1, organized by Mintzberg’s typology of firms and using cited (APA standards) passages from the assigned readings and cited selections from the Unit 1 courseroom. People don’t like the same things; they have different point of views, thoughts, and perform in different ways. A combination of a person’s background, nationality and how they’ve been raised are factors that can be of help or damaging to the performance of an organization when putting together a group of people. It is a combination of ideas that can be something good for a company when is use the right way, with respect for each other’s way of thinking and points of views. Organizational behavior (OB) doesn’t have an exact career path; it offers knowledge and skills that are vitally important to anyone who works in organizations. OB includes an extensive range of topics, such as human behavior, change, leadership and teams inside organizations. It is the study of what people think, feel and do and the application of knowledge about how individuals, groups act in and around organizations (Glinow, 2009). This is accomplished by understanding and interpreting people and organization relationships in terms of the entire person, group, and organization, to include their interaction with external environment. The reason behind this study is to build a better working relationship by achieving individual, organizational, and social objectives within an organization. Organizations are groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose (McShane & Von Glinow, 2009). The understanding OB is a skill and tool that can have considerable influence on ones career, also in the success and effectiveness of an organization. As Mintzberg states in his article that organization are not alike and therefore the organizational design must be
References: McShane, S., & Von Glinow, M. (2009). Organizational Behavior 5th Edition. New York: Mcgraw-Hill Irwin. Mintzberg, H. (1981). Organization design: fashion or fit? Harvard Business Review , 103-115.