HROB 2100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cocktail Party, Randomness, Rare Disease

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2100
• Professor: Medacof

Document Summary

What is an organization: an organization is a structured social system consisting of groups and individuals working together to meet some agree-upon objectives. Wages directly related to motivation and performance. Bureaucracy: bureaucracy is max weber"s ideal type of organization that includes: Selection and promotion criteria bases on technical competence. Centralization of power at the top of the organization. The human relations movement: human relations and processes. Elton mayo - task performance influenced by non-economic social forces. Hawthorne studies - productivity linked to social conditions of work. Attention from management can motivate/make employee feel special. Attention can decrease productivity if employees are unsure of reason, suspect negative outcome from process. Critique of bureaucracy: the human relations movement called attention to certain dysfunctional aspects of classical management and bureaucracy: Employees lose sight of the overall goals of the organization. Organizational behaviour anchors: contingency conditions, multiple levels of analysis. A particular action may have different consequences in different situations.