Why do you think the subject of Organization Behavior might be criticized as being "Common Sense only".
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Good question. I think it's because people assume that common sense should be enough. However, the trends pointing toward greater stress at the workplace (even psychological illnesses), suboptimal productivity, etc. show that there is a need for O.B. (or at least, for managers to understand more about O.B.).\n\nCommon sense is good, but unfortunately, when things break down, we need expertise. It's true in so many spheres of life. Healthy dieting is common sense, yet we need doctors. Taking care of one's teeth is common sense, yet we need dentists.\n\nAny expert discipline, including O.B., is valuable once things break down and we have to analyze them technically to find the cause of the dysfunction.
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Yahoo Answers makes one sad fact abundantly clear: People do not like to think too hard.\n\nReeses Pieces, by the way.
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A well sturctured organisation should behave well. As a tree is judged by its fruits... However, there are many people in the world who do not have good intentions. I personally do not support any business that is involved in any sort of immoral beaviour at all.
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Different people have different ambitions and they are not always in sync with that of organization, hence all these problems. Basically people are plain stupid, simple.
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Good point.  But keep in mind, people tend to react before they really think things all the way through.
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It is human nature to want everyone else to think the way you do.  \nDON'T YOU AGREE WITH ME?  \nWanting to say things correctly and without insulting someone is very important. \nRIGHT?  \nTrying to be everything to everyone while still being an individual is the main goal of each person.  \nOKAY?\nIt is difficult to make a statement anymore without stepping on the toes of someone else.  \nUNDERSTAND?\nThe world keeps getting smaller and smaller while our knowledge base keeps getting bigger.  C\nORRECT?\nThree hundred years ago, a speech MIGHT travel word of mouth across a country.  \nI'M NOT WRONG, AM I?\nNow, it travels the world.  \nSEE?\nPeople have to be so careful of what comes out of their mouths because of the possible repercussion.  \nARE YOU WITH ME?
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The way you have to think for a common sense is removed yourself from the subject, you have to think in pure sense. No bias, No emotional judgement, No expertise explaination. When you think something in its purest form then it comes out as common sense. Pure thought is not common, hence as we grow older common sense start going down because all of the biases.. Common sense is pristince natural beauty that  comes with every person mind and starts eroding as biases starts settling in.
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Common sense is better. Everything has a "least common denominator" and with good common sense, you'll eventually find the basics of what's needed to be done and can work your way from there.
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Business in our society today is often a word used to validate what would be considered outside the business world as very negative behavior.  Take Wal-Mart for example: uses slave labor, helps to destroy the environment and downtowns, treats the employees like dirt, and produces cheap plastic crap.  But it’s just business you know.  That saying is being used a lot lately for immoral behavior.   To me business should mean what you’re doing in the world to make it run smoother and give yourself a place in functional healthy society.  Not the dictionary definition, but I didn’t think you were asking for that.
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In all honesty I belive it to be because there are to many people with uniformed opions.  If you have an uninformed opion then you do not have all the facts you need to speak on a subject, especcially matters of sprituality.  I think to many people do not know how to disuss something with out name calling or acting like children because no matter what you say you are a reflection of your actions and if you do not act "enlightined" then you are not.  I think that in an "eniglightned" world we would not all agree on everything but we would understand that you can dissagree with someone without acting like you are a monkey escaped from a bad monkey insaine assylum (sorry).  I really belive it to be a matter of \nFirst listing to someone\nSecond respond to what they said\nThird DO NOT STEREOTYPE ANYONE.\nthats my little thought on the subject.
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I think that it's targeted at the general populus. I don't think it's geared for any particular group.
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i have a degree in psychology which is considered a behavioral science.  And it is suprisingly simple, and makes sense to most people.  We all know how we are, so yes it makes sense, the only thing that is questionable and always is...is why we do what we do.  Sometimes we know, sometimes we dont.  But new things rarely happen, and most things are understood to some degree or another.
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I think it would take a lack of common sense to vote conservative..
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No, most scollars believe it is "Wisdom & Understanding." The careful reading of this Chapt also supports this.
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Good question. Common would inply that it is, but I've seen that's not the case. I know a lot of college educated people with no common sense.
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All you can do is lead  by example.  People cant be taught a behavior like that.  It is much like diversity training those don't need it resent it and those who need it don't listen.  You would be surprised at how leading by example can influence people
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Good Question, which took me several minutes of valuable on-line time here at the Library to even consider a possible cause.\n\nPerhaps this overdramatized dualistic Labeling is PROOF of the lazy "lowest common denominator" of COMMON humans? This form of Aristotelian "thinking" harks back to the Ancient Greeks, so is not a new phenomenon, at all. Notice all the bloody WARS throughout recorded human history?\n\nAlfred Korzybsky, author of "SCIENCE & SANITY" and other General Semantics books, identifies this rigid, two-valued form of "Logic" as THE key factor in mental break-downs in thought; i.e. ( human misuse of Language leading TO actual INsanity!). He made his own observations  in psychiatric wards personally supervised in his work. \n\nDoctor Korzybsky (sp?) recommends re-training in General Semantics & MULTI-VALUED Logical analysis & description as a key help, if not a  REMEDY for such insanities! (Of course, those  NOT caused primarily by actual, Neurological Disease.)\n\nBinary or Boolean "Logic" is usefull in design of  NON-organic systems such as computer hardware, but dangerous if used to address REAL Life problems, or in Science and the Arts. The  simplest set of "Logical" values would be Trinary; i.e 3-valued!\n"Yes", "No", and "Maybe/Don'tknow4sure"!  \n\nThe simplistic use of "LIBERAL" versus "CONSERVATIVE" stereotyping you HEAR on the (AM) Talk Shows probably indicates frightened but LAZY Thinking of the commoner who  calls-into these programs. LIB/CON dualisms could also be a deliberate & manipulated RHETORICAL ploy of political pseudo-thinkers who wish to push their OWN (often stupid!) AGENDA! \n\nOoops! Sorry. Got carried away there.  Go READ Korzybsky!