Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Resource Management, Human Relations Movement, John Kotter

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Carol- Lynn Chambers

Document Summary

Mos 2181: organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social inventions: goal accomplishment, group effort, organizations are the coordinated presence of people, not things. About understanding people and managing them to work effectively: organizational survival and adaptation to change are important goals. Innovation and flexibility are especially important for organizations: organizations are based on group effort the interaction and coordination among people to accomplish goals, get people to practise effective teamwork. Involves translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices. more likely to result in the attainment of organizational goals. The classical view: advocates a high degree of specialization of labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making. Frederick"s taylor"s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks. Bureaucracy is max weber"s ideal type of organization that includes: Selection and promotion criteria based on technical competence. Centralization of power at the top of the organization.