ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Western Electric, Whitehall Study, Scientific Management
16 Jun 2018
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Learning Objectives
Understanding the influence of
Individual
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Interpersonal
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Organization factors on the person and commitment of individuals in the
organizational
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History of Organizational Behaviour
Frederick Taylor
A scientific management
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Changed how OB works
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Created the idea of paying people for their amount of work
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Hawthorne - Western Electric Company Studies
Discovered that people need interactions
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Is Organization Behaviour Common Sense?
Grosse & Lerner (2012) - Relative status influences well-being, those in
leadership positions generally experience less
Perceived stress
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Stress hormones
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Anxiety
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Whitehall Studies
Those in higher organization positions show lower mortality rates/live
longer
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Experimental Methods in OB
Paradigmatic theories
This is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental
practices of a scientific discipline
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Causality theories
This is a progressive and controversial theory based upon cause and effect
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Descriptive theories
This is where you have a theory that describes a situation or phenomenon
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Predictive theories
This is when you have two variables that cause a correlation
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Characteristics of Good Hypothesis
A hypothesis must propose an adequate answer to a question•
Hypothesis must be likely and coherent•
Hypotheses must be parsimonious
It must use a minimal of resources
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A hypothesis must be verifiable •
Class 1 -Jan. 9th
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
15:57
