Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-8: Scientific Management, Decision-Making, Human Relations Movement

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Victoria Digby

Document Summary

Organizational behavior (ob) field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resource management field of study that focuses on the applications of ob theories and principles in organizations. Strategic management field of study devoted to exploring the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organizations profitability. Fredrick taylor (1856-1917) father of scientific management. Heavy emphasis on specialization, co-ordination and efficiency. Scientific management using scientific methods to design optimal and efficient work processes and tasks. Bureaucracy an organizational form that emphasizes the control and co- ordination of its members through a strict chain of commands, formal rules and procedures, high specialization and centralized decision making. Productivity problems were viewed at the job level as a result of design flaws, failures to implement specified processes or inadequate working conditions. At the organizational level as a result of deficient structural characteristics.