Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Final: Final Exam Textbook Notes.pdf

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

Document Summary

Social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Goal accomplishment: organizational survival and adaptation to change are important goals. Group effort: interaction and coordination among people to accomplish goals. The attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. How event in the external environment affect organizations. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. The classical view and bureaucracy early; advocated high specialization of labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making. Frederick taylor, scientific management: using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks. Max weber, bureaucracy (cid:131) (cid:131) (cid:131) (cid:131) (cid:131) The human relations movement and a critique of bureaucracy. Hawthorne studies: 1920s to 1930s, illustrated how psychological and social processes affect productivity and work adjustment. Human relations movement advocated management styles that were more participative and oriented toward employee needs.