ADM 2336 Lecture 1: Chapter 1- ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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Field of study devoted to explaining and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resource management: field of study that focuses on the applications of ob theories and principles in organizations. Money is not the best motivators for employees (it"s the work itself) Scientific management: using scientific methods to design optimal and efficient work processes and tasks. Bureaucracy: an organizational form that emphasizes the control and coordination of its members through a strict chain of command, formal rules and procedures, high specialization, and centralized decision making. The humans relations movement: field of study that recognizes that the psychological attributes of individual workers and the social forces within work groups have important effects on work behaviours. A model that argues that rare and inimitable resources help firms maintain competitive advantage. This perspective describes what makes resources valuable- that is, what makes them capable of creating long-term profits.
