Psychology 2660A/B Lecture 1: Psy 2660 - Chapter 1.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: K.Andrew White

Document Summary

Improve communication a. b. c. d: reduce stress, achieve work/non work balance. Beta for people who are illiterate: what he did was find ways of measuring human qualities and classification to sort for who gets what job, wwii, psychologist was invited to participate, modified tests, contributions included: development of the army general classification. Basic principles of management included: task simplification, optimal procedures (time and motion studies, merit based employment decisions, pay as a motivator, henry ford used these principles. Important to consider the history of organizations and management because: remnants of early approaches exist today (e. g. , bureaucratic organizations, provides a context for modern day (some of what we do is a reaction to old ways, understanding mistakes of the past helps to avoid them in the future (e. g. , computer monitoring) Scientific management: remnants of scientific management, assembly line production, hierarchical structure of organizations, merit based pay (incentives, replications of scientific management, computer monitoring and surveillance, evidence based management.