Business Administration 2257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Punctuated Equilibrium, Lump Sum, Organizational Citizenship Behavior

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 2257
• Professor: Bill Irwin

Document Summary

Organizations social interventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort standardization of work tasks centralized power, and selection and promotion based on technical competence. illustrated how psychological and social processes affect productivity and work adjustment. Classical viewpoint- an early prescription on management that advocated high specialization of labor, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making. Organizational behavior the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resources management programs, practices and systems to acquire, develop and retain employees in organizations. Management the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. Evidence based management translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices. Scientific management fredrick taylor"s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and. Bureaucracy max weber"s ideal type of organization that included a strict chain of command, detailed rules, high specialization, Hawthorne studies research conducted at the hawthorne plant of western electric near chicago in the 1920s and 1930s that.