Lecture 1 Flashcards
What is organizational behaviour
A field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, gorups, and structure have on behaviour within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge tward improving an organization’s effectiveness
what is intuition?
- Gut feelings
- Individual observation
- Commonsense
What is systematic study?
- Looks at relationships
- Scientific evidence
- Predicts behaviours
Hindsight Bias
Events in the past appear simple, comprehensible, and predictable in comparison to events in the future
What is EBM?
Evidence-Based Management.
Basing anagerial decisions on the best available scientific evidence.
How must managers of EBM think?
Must think like scientist
- Pose a managerial question
- Search for the best available evvidence
- Apply relevant info to case
What is sometimes wrong with your intuition?
Intuition is often based on inaccurate information.
What is sometimes wrong in Faddism?
Faddism is prevalent in management
What is wrong with systematic study?
Can be time-consuming
What is the promise of OB?
Use evidence as much as possible to inform your intuition and experience.
Core value pf science
- Accuracy
- Objectivity
- Skepticism
- Open-Mindedness
A good theorie…
- Effectively summarizes a wide range of observations
- Makes clear predictions
research methods
-Systematic observation - behaviour is systematically observed and recorded
(Correlation)
-experimental research
(causality)
