RSM260H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bounded Rationality, Transformational Leadership, Sunk Costs

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Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Organizational behavior is the attitudes and behavior of individuals and groups in organizations. Management is the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. (acquire, allocate, utilize) Classical view: very high degree of specialization of labor and a very high degree of coordination and centralized decision making. Scientific management is frederick taylor"s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks. Hawthorne studies are research conducted at the hawthorne plant of western electric in the 1920s and 1930s that illustrated how psychological and social processes affect productivity and work adjustment. (harvard"s elton mayo) Human relations movement is a critique of classical management and bureaucracy that advocated management styles that were more participative and oriented toward employee needs. Personality is the relatively stable set of psychological characteristic that influences the way an individual interacts with his or her environment.

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