COMM 151 Final: Organizational Behaviour final exam review COMM 151 (MINERS)
19 Apr 2013
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Organizations social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Organizational behaviour the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. The field of ob is about understanding people and managing them to work effectively, is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change, and with how to get people to practice effective teamwork. Management the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. In early 1900s, rapid industrialization and factory work, movement toward efficiency. Scientific management taylor"s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks. Bureaucracy max weber"s ideal type of organization that included a strict chain of command, detailed rules, high specialization, centralized power, and selection and promotion based on technical competence. In 1920s and 1930s, human relations were analyzed, they found that psychological and social factors influence the behaviour of workers. Hawthorne studies research conducted at the hawthorne plant of western.
