BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Relations Movement, Scientific Management
Document Summary
Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort: basic characteristics: Coordinated efforts of people working together to accomplish common goals. Organizational behaviour refers to the attitudes and behaviours of individuals in an organization: field of org behaviour systematically studies these attitudes and behaviours and provides advice as to how to manage them effectively, goals include: Management is the art of the getting things done through others in an effort to accomplish org goals: consists of acquiring, allocating and utilizing physical and human resources to accomplish goals. Classical view of management advocated a high degree of specialization and coordination of labour from the top of the org o taylor"s scientific management and weber"s views on bureaucracy are inline w the classical position. Human relations movement pointed out the people problems to the classical mgmt style sometimes provoked, advocating more interesting job design, more employee participation in decision making and less centralized control.
