ADMS 2400 Study Guide - Final Guide: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Interpersonal Communication

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2400
• Professor: Len Karakowsky

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 resource management takes the theories and principles studied in ob and explore the nuts and bolts" applications of those principles in organizations. Example: structure training programs to promote employee learning/hiring/firing. Strategic management focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organizations profitability. Management scholar placed heavy emphasis on specialization, coordination, and efficiency. Scientific management uses 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 that the psychological attributes of individual workers and the social forces within work groups have important effects on work behaviours.