Bachelor of Business (Incorporating Graduate Diploma in Business and Graduate Certificate in Business) Organisational Behaviour 466641 Summer School 2013-14 TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Description Page 1 Welcome to Organisational Behaviour 3 2 Teaching Team and Contact Details 3 3 Paper Information 3.1 Prerequisite requirements 3.2 Paper Aim 3.3 Learning Outcomes 3.4 Content 3 4 AUTonline Programme Organisation 4 5 Textbook 5 6 Daily
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individuals‚ groups and structure have on behaviour within organizations‚ for the purpose of applying knowledge toward improving an organisation’s effectiveness (Robbins). That means‚ ‘OB is a field of study’ – it is a distinct area of expertise with a common body of knowledge. What does it study? It studies three determinants of behavior in organizations: individuals‚ groups and structure. OB applies the knowledge gained about individuals‚ groups and the effect of structure on behavior in order to
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Organisational Behaviour | Investigating People and Leadership Within the Workplace 22/11/11 | The term organisational behaviour (OB) is linguistic shorthand for the activities and interactions of people in organisations. Jack Wood (1995) notes that Fritz Roethlisberger first used the term ‘organisational behaviour’ in the late 1950s‚ because it suggested a broader range than human relations. “Organisational behaviour is the study of the structure‚ functioning and performance of organisations
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Team Performance Management: An International Journal The “silo virus”: diagnosing and curing departmental groupthink Peter Schütz Brian Bloch Article information: Downloaded by University of Technology Sydney At 02:08 27 August 2014 (PT) To cite this document: Peter Schütz Brian Bloch‚ (2006)‚"The “silo#virus”: diagnosing and curing departmental groupthink"‚ Team Performance Management: An International Journal‚ Vol. 12 Iss 1/2 pp. 31 - 43 Permanent link to this document: http://dx
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« Critically evaluate the view that the only essential ingredient of a successful manager is the ability to handle people and relate in a caring and meaningful way to the individuals being managed » A manager is the person responsible for planning and directing the work of a group of individuals‚ monitoring their work and corrective actions when necessary. To be a successful manager is not that easy and ask certain competencies‚ the most important issue in management success is being a
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Contrast between production and product concepts: In production concept marketers believe that customers will favor products that are available and in expensive‚ while Product concept makes marketers believe that products with most quality‚ features and performance will be favored by the customers. Under production concept‚ product gets cheap but under product concept‚ product usually gets expensive. Both of these concepts can lead to marketing myopia‚ but still useful in some situations. Products
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OB Definition of ’Organizational Structure’ Explicit and implicit institutional rules and policies designed to provide a structure where various work roles and responsibilities are delegated‚ controlled and coordinated. Organizational structure also determines how information flows from level to level within the company. In a centralized structure‚ decisions flow from the top down. In a decentralized structure‚ the decisions are made at various different levels. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/organizational-structure
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anthropology and political scientists. The predominant areas are psychology (e.g. Learning‚ Emotion)‚ sociology (e.g. Communication‚ Intergroup Behavior)‚ social psychology (e.g. Behavioral change‚ Attitude change)‚ anthropology (e.g. Organizational culture‚ Comparative Values)‚ and political science (e.g. Conflict‚ Introraganizational Politics Power) (Robbins SP‚ Millett‚ B & Water-Marsh‚ T‚ 2004). First of all‚ psychology is the science that seeks to measure‚ explain‚ and sometimes change the behavior
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Natural Disasters and the Decisions that Follow Q1: Insurance companies in the state of Florida earned record profits in 2006‚ suggesting that Nationwide’s decision to cancel policies in light of the calm hurricane seasons (in Florida) in 2005-2007 may have cost the company potential revenue and customer goodwill. Do you think Rommel’s quote about making a ’’sound business decision’’ reveals any perceptual or decision-making biases? Why or why not? Overconfidence bias is identified as ’’the
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Task 1: Understand the relationship between organizational structure and culture. P1.1: Compare and contrast different organisational structure and culture. According to Buchanan and Huczynski‚ an organisation is a ‘social arrangement for the controlled performance of collective goals’. Chester Barnard described an organisation as ‘a system of co-operative human activities’. Organisation are can be define as; ‘A deliberately formed group of human being with known boundaries and common goal’. Or
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