HROB 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Relations Movement, Hawthorne Effect, Western Electric

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2090
• Professor: Sina Bahrami Rad

Document Summary

Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Understanding people and managing them to work effectively. Be motivated to join and remain in the organization. Carry out the basic work reliability, in terms of productivity, quantity and service. Be willing to continuously learn and upgrade knowledge and skills. Organizational behaviour: attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Hr 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: fredrick taylor"s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks.