Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Relations Movement, Scatter Plot, Meta-Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Meaghan Ross

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour: about understanding, explaining, and improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Human relations movement: recognized that needs, attitudes, and social influences within groups affected behavior, hawthorne studies made clear the limits with the classical approach to management. Contemporary management theory: value in both the classical and human relations approaches, both the situation and the individual matter, there is no one best principle, e. g. , payroll may be managed more bureaucratically than r&d. Does organizational behaviour matter: resource based view. Resource based view rare and inimitable resources help firms maintain a competitive advantage: rare= in short supply, inimitable= incapable of being imitated/copied, resources. Research in organizational behaviour: theories and hypotheses. Theory collection of assertions that specify how/why variables are related and the conditions under which they should be related. Hypothesis a formal statement of the expected relationship between two variables.