ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Job Performance, Social Forces

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: Magda Donia

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour of goal: understanding, explaining and managing people"s attitudes and behaviours in organization. Human resource management takes the theories and principles studied in ob. Strategic management focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization"s profitability. Improve individual"s productivity in industrial era: scientific management by frederick taylor. Using scientific method to design optimal and efficient work processes and tasks: bureaucracy by max weber. An organizational form that emphasizes the control and coordination of its members through (1) a strict chain of command, (2) formal rules and procedure, (3) high specialization, and (4) centralized decision making. The psychological attributes of individual workers and the social forces within work group have important effects on work behaviours. Group values, leadership, motivation, and job satisfaction have an impact on work behaviours. They were put to special assembly and being looked.