GMGT 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hawthorne Effect, High High, Scientific Management

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: General Management
• Course: GMGT 2070
• Professor: Raymond T.Lee

Document Summary

Next week download/print handouts topics: bank case study and quantitative & qualitative. 14-09-2016 workers want to or are going to perform their tasks: management was responsible and liable to owners, frederick taylor coi(cid:374)ed (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:373)a(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) Frederick taylor: co(cid:373)piled a (cid:862)re(cid:272)ipe(cid:863) of sorts for good (cid:373)a(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, see principles of scientific management handout. Lesson with stage 2: they got used to the perks; habituated motivate each other. Situation: development of contingency school, workers" rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374) depe(cid:374)ds o(cid:374) ho(cid:449) the(cid:455) are treated, operates under discussion of motivation. Implies its not just about the worker and the job, and that there is a social element: social context affects the way work is done. Open systems perspective of organization: see flowchart hand out, suggests that you have to take into account the entirety of the environment of the workers. Various terminologies: variable something subject to change, hypothesis a way to test a theory by formulating a statement that describes the relationship between variables.