GMS 200 Chapter 2: GMS200 - Chapter 2 Notes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Jian Guan

Document Summary

Groups are mechanisms through which individuals can combine their talents for a greater good. Organizations are cooperating communities of managers and workers. Manager"s job is to help people in the organization cooperate and achieve an integration of interests: forward-looking management insights: Making every employee an owner creates a sense of collective responsibility (precursor of employee ownership, profit sharing, and gain-sharing) Business problems involve a variety of inter-related factors (precursor of systems thinking) Private profits relative to public good (precursor of managerial ethics and social responsibility: bureaucratic organization (max weber, bureaucracy. An ideal, intentionally rational, and very efficient form of organization. Manipulated physical work conditions to assess impact on output. Designed to minimize the psychological factors of previous experiment. Factors that accounted for increased productivity: group atmosphere, participative supervision, employee attitudes, interpersonal relations, group processes. Some things satisfied some workers but not others. People restricted output to adhere to group norms: lessons from the hawthorne studies: