GMS 200 Chapter Notes -Applied Mathematics, Chris Argyris, Learning Organization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Shavin Malhotra

Document Summary

Scientific management - emphasizes careful selection and training of workers and supervisory support. Standardized tasks: proper working conditions, carefully select workers, carefully train workers, provide proper incentives. Motion study- is the science of reducing a task to its basic physical motions. Administrative principles: division of labour, authority, discipline, unity of command, unity of direction, subordination of individual interests, remuneration, centralization, scalar chain, order, equity, personnel tenure, initiative, espirit de corps. Fayol 5 rules/duties of management: foresight, organization, command, coordination, control. Bureaucracy rational and efficient form of organization founded on logic, order and legitimate authority. An ideal, intentionally rational, and very efficient form of organization. Based on principles of logic, order, and legitimate authority. Groups -mechanisms for individuals to combine talents. Hawthrone effect tendency of persons singled out for special attention to perform as expected. Human relations movement- suggested that managers using good human relations will achieve productivity. Organizational behaviour study of individuals and groups in organizations.