GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Henri Fayol, Hawthorne Effect, Lillian Moller Gilbreth

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Franklin Ramsoomair

Document Summary

Masculinity-femininity: a person who performs task without taking risks, assertiveness and aggressiveness: masculine, relationship orientated: feminine values, when you have resources to plan your long-term goals. An ideal, intentionally rational, and very efficient form of organization. Based on principles of logic, order and legitimate authority. Science of reducing a job or task to its basic physical motions. Mary parker follett"s notion of organizations as communities. Hawthorne studies (expand) better: when you let people know that they are important they work. Maslow"s theory of: you have to satisfy certain needs before you can go on to other needs human needs. Physiological: deficit principle: a satisfied need is not a motivator of behaviour, progression principle: a need becomes a motivator once the preceding lower-level need is satisfied. Mcgregor"s theory x and theory y: both principles cease to operate at self-actualization level, theory x boss represents rude and blunt, and theory y bosses are those that they love their workers.