ADMS 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance
31 May 2014
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Classical management scholars frederick taylor (1856-1917) and max weber (1864-1902) placed heavy emphasis on specialization, coordination, and efficiency. A major influence on the way people viewed and thought about ob was the work of frederick. Taylor and his colleagues would study how to optimize performance of any task. Rather than focusing on specific work process, weber looked at the entire organization. Individual outcomes: two primary outcomes of interest to organizational behaviour researchers (and employees and managers): job performance and organizational commitment. Employees: to perform their jobs well and to remain members of the organization that they respect. Managers: maximize their job performance and to ensure that they stay with the firm for a significant length of time. Individual mechanisms: job satisfaction; stress; motivation; trust justice and ethics (conducts business with fairness, honesty and integrity) and learning and decision-making (gain job knowledge and use knowledge to make accurate judgment).
