[ADM2336] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (20 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: Catherine Elliott

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resources management is a field of study that focuses on the application of ob theories and principles in organizations. Strategic management is the field of study devoted to exploring the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization"s probability. A major influence on the way people viewed and thought about ob was the work of fredrick taylor the father of scientific management. Using scientific methods to design optimal and efficient work processes and tasks. Bureaucracy is an organizational form that emphasizes the control and coordination of its members through a strict chain of command, formal rules and procedures, high specialization and centralized decision making. Human relations movement is a field of study that recognizes the psychological attributes of individual workers and the social forces within work groups have important effects on work behaviours.