BUSI 3310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ideal Type, Corporate Social Responsibility, Western Electric
26 Feb 2018
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Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through a group effort. Organizational behavior: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Human resources management: programs, practices and systems to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain employees in organizations. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. Evidence-based management: translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices. Classical viewpoint: an early prescription on management that advocated a high specialization of labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making. Scientific management: frederick taylor"s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks. Bureaucracy: max weber"s ideal type of organization that included a strict chain of command, detailed rules, high specialization, centralized power, and selection and promotion based on technical competence. Hawthorne studies: research conducted in the 1920/30"s at the hawthorne plant of western. Electric near chicago that illustrated how psychological and social processes affect productivity and work adjustment.
