HRM 3422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Strategic Choice, Organizational Justice, Procedural Justice
17 Feb 2017
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Employee obligated to perform work and the employer was required to pay wages. Worker forced into employment terms and conditions. Third actor, the government did little for employees. Illegal for workers to quit or form unions. Scientific management (taylorism): movement toward large industrial workplaces. Focus was on mass production through assembly lines. Workers went from performing large number of tasks to becoming specialists in small number of tasks. Work specialization: 2 pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iples of taylor"s theory : work should be divided into simple tasks, managers should perform all planning and decision-making tasks while workers perform simple tasks in accordance with decisions made by management. Employer still made the rules while the employee followed. Goal was to reduce costs by making production line more efficient. Human relations: belief that managers and employees have conflicting views but could be resolved using effective policies and procedures. Focuses on the role of effective leadership to improve workplace.
