HROB 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Human Relations Movement, Human Resource Management, Western Electric

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2090
• Professor: H O S S A I N

Document Summary

Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Social interventions: their essential characteristic is the coordinated presence of people, not things. The field or organizational behaviour is concentred with how to get people to practise effective teamwork. Orgzantional behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in a organization. Human resource management: programs, and practises and systems to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain employee 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 orgszational practises. Classical viewpoint: an early prescription on management that advocated a high specialization of labor intensive coordination and centralized decision making. Scientific management: fredrick taylor system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks. Beaucracy: max webers ideal type of orgzantion that included a strict chain of command. Detailed rules, high specialization,centrilized power, and selection and promotion and on technical competence.