ORGS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4, 6, 10, 12: Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Salary
10 Dec 2016
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Organizational behaviour (ob): is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resources management: takes the theories and principles studied in ob and explores the nuts and bolts applications of those principles in organizations. Strategic management: focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization"s profitability. Over time our ideas have changed and many theories have been developed. The consequences of situational characteristics (e. g. , financial incentives) are thought to depend on characteristics of the individual or vice versa. Put heavy emphasis on specialization, coordination, and efficiency. Productivity problems were viewed as: the result of design flaws, failures to implement specified processes, or inadequate working conditions at the job level, the result of deficient structural characteristic at the organizational level. Scientific management: using scientific methods to design optimal and efficient work processes and tasks (using careful observation, measurement, and experimentation)
