Theorists & Theories
This theorist is known as the Father of Bureaucracy
Who is Max Weber?
These were used by Scientific Management researchers to determine the most efficient way to accomplish a specific task.
What are Time & Motion Studies?
According to lecture: social collectivity, coordinating activity, goals, structure, and environmental embeddedness are the five critical features of this.
What is an organization?
According to the lecture, this is the minimum number of people required for communication
What is two people?
The "family" metaphor best represents this organizational approach
What is human relations?
This researcher was in charge of the Hawthorne Studies
Who is Elton Mayo?
This explains why people change their behavior when they know others are watching them
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
This classical management theory is idealized and believes organizations should have a clearly defined hierarchy, division of labor, and functioning of authority.
What is the Theory of Bureaucracy?
A model of communication that describes it as a process of information moving from sources to receivers
What is the TRANSMISSION model of communication?
These two approaches utilize only a formal communication style.
What is feudal & classical?
This theorist is known as the Prophet of Management and contributed to the development of the Human Resource approach
Who is Mary Parker Follett?
In the Banana Time Reading -- was were TIMES?
According to McGregor, this kind of manager believes that workers lack ambition, are resistant to change, and inherently self-centered.
What is a Theory X manager?
According to the textbook, this model of communication is seen as "a process that produces and reproduces shared meaning"
What is the constitutive model?
This one word explains the biggest difference between the human relations & human resources approaches.
What is innovation?
This Human Resource theorist argued that organizational structures can be designed to enhance/increase member participation.
Who is Rensis Likert
The four experiments in the Hawthorne studies
What is the illumination studies, the relay assembly, the interview program, and bank-wiring?
According to Blake and Mouton's managerial grid, this style is characterized by a high concern for people and a low concern for production.
What is country club management?
Name this approach: content-task and social are important, downward and horizontal direction, face-to-face channel is best, and informal style.
What is human relations approach?
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, physiological needs refers to meeting the basic requirements to sustain life (food, water, etc.) In organization life, psychological needs are fulfilled by providing this.
What is a living wage?
These researchers developed the Unit of Measurement known as a "Therblig" to conduct Time & Motion Studies.
Who are Frank & Lillian Gilbreth
These are organizations that promote their sustainable business practices or positive impact on the environment.
What are "Green" companies?
Equivocality is defined as the unpredictability that is inherent in the information environment of an organization. This theory focuses on the "equivocality in an enacted environment".
What is the Theory of Organizing?
This organizational approach is metaphorically compared to a castle.
What is the Feudal Approach?
In the feudal approach, this is what it is called when sub-bosses are given nearly absolute power over other workers
What is foreman's empire?