ADMS 3422 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Human Resource Management, Collective Bargaining, Procedural Justice

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 3422
• Professor: Michael Mc Garry

Document Summary

Significant perspectives that have influenced managerial thinking: master-servant relationship. Definition: essence of the common-law employment relationship pertaining to non-union workplace. Contractual agreement where employee were obligated to perform work and employer required to pay wages. Workers often forced into agreeing to employment terms and conditions. Ex. illegal for employees to quit, deemed a conspiracy to bargain collectively or form a union, management controlled virtually all aspects of employment relationship. Government and its legislation did little for the employee ex. rarely interference by courts and when there was usually in the employer"s favour: scientific management (taylorism) Large-scale industrial workplaces employing large groups of workers. Focus on mass production through assembly line. Work should be divided into simple tasks and workers should be trained to perform a small number of these simple tasks. Managers should perform all planning and decision-making while workers perform simple tasks according to the plans and decisions made by management.