ACTG 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Relations Movement, Organizational Commitment, Ob River
Document Summary
Study devoted to the understanding, explaining and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Drawn from a wide variety of disciplines: industrial and organizational psychology, social psychology, anthropology, models from economics. Human resources management: focuses on the applications of ob in organizations. Strategic management: study devoted to exploring the product choices and and industry characteristics affecting profitability. Scientific management- using scientific methods to design optimal and efficient work processes and tasks (frederick taylor) observation, experimentation and measurement. Bureaucracy- emphasizes control and coordination of members through a chain of command, formal rules, procedures, specialization, centralized decision making. (max weber) looking at organization as a whole. Human relations movement- study of psychological and social attributes, that have effects on work behaviors. Contemporary (contingency) approach- dependencies between the classical and human relations approach consequences of situational characteristics depend on individual characteristics. Integrative model of ob interrelation of topics.
