ORGS 5100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Relations Movement, Henri Fayol, Elton Mayo

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 5100
• Professor: Thomas Medcof

Document Summary

Organization: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Organizational behavior field is about understanding people and managing them to work efficiently. Organizations are open systems -- that is, they are self sustaining systems that use energy to transform resources from the environment into some form of output. Human resource management: programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop and retain employees in organizations. Management: are of getting things accomplished in organization through others. Evidence based management: involves translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices. Classical viewpoint: an early prescription on management that adovacted high specialization of labor, intensive coordination, and centerlized decision making. (cid:894)he(cid:374)ri fa(cid:455)ol, gm e(cid:454)e(cid:272)uti(cid:448)e moo(cid:374)e(cid:455), l(cid:455)(cid:374)dal ur(cid:449)i(cid:272)k, (cid:1005)9(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) Scientifi(cid:272) method: fredri(cid:272)k ta(cid:455)lor"s (1915) system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks (functional foremanship: concerned with job design and structure of work on shop floor.