PSYCH 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fritz Roethlisberger, Elton Mayo, Human Relations Movement
15 Apr 2016
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Scieniic method in organizaional research: theory: a set of statements about the inter-relaionships between concepts that allow us to predict and explain certain processes and outcomes. Formalized knowledge or assumpion that we can use to make predicions and explanaions: hypothesis: what to expect . A formal statement of the expected relaionship between two or more variables in the real world. The expectaion of what you would observe, based of it"s theory. We can take all our hypotheses and use them to make a theory. Video: theory vs. hypotheses vs. law explained (youtube) (to 3:50) Human relaions movement (1930s: the homoeconomicus idea is a theory that people are raional and driven by economic wealth. Increase compensaion in order to moivate people to work harder: the social employee: people are social animals. We don"t get moivated simply economic gains, but by other factors such as social means: hawthorne studies. Elton mayo & fritz roethlisberger, harvard u.
