Midterm Review: Chapter 1. Flashcards
(45 cards)
Social inventions for accomplishing common goals through groups efforts are called?
Organizations.
- An essential “characteristic” of organizations is coordinated/created in the presence of people not things.
Social Inventions.
- This field of organizational behaviour is concerned with how organizations can survive and adapt to change to achieve objectives.
Goal Accomplishment.
- This field of organization is concerned with how to get people to practise effective teamwork
Group Effort.
The study of attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. Explores through theory how organizations can be structured more effectively and how events in the external environment effect organizations.
Organizational Behaviour.
Applying programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain employees in organizations. Involves recruitment, selections compensation and training and development.
Human Resource Management.
Why Study OB?
Interesting. Important. Impactful.
What are the goals of OB?
- Predicting and organizational behaviour events.
- Explaining organizational behaviour and events in organizations.
- Managing organizational behaviour.
How do we predict organizational events?
Through systematic study.
The art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others is called.
Management.
Involves translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational management practices. Is more likely to result in the attainment of organizational goals.
Evidence Based Management.
the classical view (bureaucracy) and the humans relations view are two methods that…
Attempt to prescribe the “correct” way to manage and organization and achieve its goals.
A view that advocates for a high degree of specialization of labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making.
The classical view.
Frederick Taylor’s system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization of work tasks.
Scientific Management.
Max Weber’s ideal type of structure that includes a, strict chain of command, selection and promotion criteria based on technical competence, detailed rules, regulations and procedures, a high specialization, and centralization of power at the top of the organization is called?
Bureaucracy.
Max Weber’s ideal type of structure that includes a, strict chain of command, selection and promotion criteria based on technical competence, detailed rules, regulations and procedures, a high specialization, and centralization of power at the top of the organization is called?
Bureaucracy.
A movement that began with the famous Hawthorne studies conducted at the Hawthorne plant of Western Electric in the 1920’s and 30’s.
The human relations movement and critique of bureaucracy.
A group of studies in 1920’s concerned with the impact of fatigue, rest pauses, and lighting on employee productivity. Illustrated how psychological and social processes affect productivity and work adjustment.
The Hawthorne Studies.
Employee alienation, limiting innovation and adaptation, resistance to change, minimum acceptable level of performance, and employees losing sight of overall goals of organizations are all.
Critiques of Bureaucracy.
This movement advocated for more people-orientated and participative styles of management that catered more to the social and psychological needs of employees.
The human relations movement.
The human relations movement called for
More flexible systems of management.
The design of more interesting jobs.
Open Communication.
Employee participation in decision making.
Less rigid, more decentralized forms of control.
A method that combines both the merits of both the human relations movement and bureaucracy.
The Contingency Approach.
The general answer to many of the problems is “It depends”
The contingency approach.
The field of organizational behaviour is concerned with what managers do in organizations.
Management.
