OB: Chaper 1

Human resoruce mgmt

deals with recruitment, selection, training, compensation and performance apraisails

strategic outcome

explores product choces and industry charcteristics(the outcome. anaylzes how these factos imapct an organizations overall profitability and competative advantafe (the sucess in the product)

calssic approach

stressing the importance of the formal organizations and its functions, efficieint processes and contrilling work activities

human relations movement

the physcological attributes of individual workers and the social froces within groups, having importnat effects on behaviours

organizational behaviour

the foundation of corportae human resource programs with elements such as employee retention, engagement, training and culture

the hawthron effects

basiclly how you act when youre being wathced, a response to micromanagement

2 things that make up ob

job performance and organizational commitment

4 methods of knowing

experience, intuition, authority and science

scientific method cycle

teory, hypothesis, data, verification

correlation coefficient

statistical relationsjip between 2 variables, perfrect positive relation ship (both increases) pefect negative relationhip (one increases other decreases)

meta analysis in ob

statistically combines the results of many individual studies on the same topic

meta analysis helps by

aggrefating findings, estimating true effect sizes, resonlivng inconsistencies, builsing thoery and hr practices