Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 76 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Barry Hawn

Document Summary

Organizational behaviour: understanding, explaining, and improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Hr management applies what we learn in ob in the workplace. Focused on specialization of labour, coordination, and centralized decision making. Workers were given a very specialized piece of work, with little variety. Decision making happened at the top of the organization, in the hands of very few individuals (production employees had little say) Concerned with observing people doing their jobs and how many movements they needed to do the job. He wanted to cut down on the number of movements they needed and increase productivity. He timed their breaks and put it at specific times during work. Specialization doing very few tasks on the job. Strict chain of command/authority everyone reports to someone else in the organization. Set of formal rules and procedures: centralization of decision making. Series of research studies at western electric company. Focused (cid:28677)(cid:28664)(cid:28678)(cid:28664)(cid:28660)(cid:28677)(cid:28662)(cid:28667)(cid:28664)(cid:28677)(cid:28678)" (cid:28668)(cid:28673)(cid:28679)(cid:28664)(cid:28677)(cid:28664)(cid:28678)(cid:28679)(cid:28678) (cid:28674)(cid:28673) (cid:28682)(cid:28674)(cid:28677)(cid:28670) (cid:28661)(cid:28664)(cid:28667)(cid:28660)(cid:28681)(cid:28668)(cid:28674)(cid:28680)(cid:28677) (cid:28668)(cid:28673) (cid:28674)(cid:28677)(cid:28666)(cid:28660)(cid:28673)(cid:28668)(cid:28685)(cid:28660)(cid:28679)(cid:28668)(cid:28674)(cid:28673)(cid:28678)