Human Relations
The study of interactions among people.
What is Human relations
Is when employees feel like they have choices and will act in a way that furthers their organizations intersts.
What is Employee Engagement.
A dimension which specifies a dichotomy between those that feel more independent, self reliant, less connected with others, and those that think of their community as their home or have great considerations for the whole of society.
What is Individualism/Collectivism.
People's duty to master nature, submit to nature, or work together with nature.
Is the extent of analyzing management principles in various countries.
What is Comparative Management?
Voluntary groups of employees engaged in decision making at the lowest practical level
of the organization.
What is Quality Circles?
Has transformed the way work gets done and has created many great opportunities.
What is technology.
A dimension which specifies a dichotomy between those that believe the world is constantly changing and those that believe it is the same as it was when created.
What is Long-term Orientation.
People are inherently good, evil, a mixture of both.
What is Beliefs About Human Nature.
Contains nine dimensions of cultural variation: Institutional collectivism, In-group collectivism, Power distance, Uncertainty avoidance, Gender egalitarianism, Assertiveness, Humane orientation, Future orientation, and Performance orientation.
What is GLOBE Study.
When you give power or authority to enable or enfranchise employees.
What is Employee Empowerment.
The internet has had this effect on the world and has created an environment in which there
is a more level playing field in terms of access to information.
What is Flattening World.
A dimension in which one side focuses on being tough, winning is important, and quantity is important, versus the other side that focuses on being emotionally closer to one another and competing is not so openly endorsed.
What is Masculinity/Femininity.
People should concentrate on, living for the moment, striving for goals, reflecting.
What is Nature of Human Activity.
A mentioned attribute as part of assessing what makes a great manager of software
engineers. It is being knowledgeable about the system
and technologies the engineer is working with, understanding the complexity of problems
and solutions, and having input for design dilemmas.
What is “Being technical”
A study that concluded that social aspects were important, even more than the technical aspects. The study showed that normal interactions in the workplace resulted in the creation of informal organizations.
What is Elton Mayo's Hawthorne Experiment.
A set of practices that take the environment and consumption into consideration, as well as meet the present needs without compromising the needs of future generations.
What is Sustainability and Green Business Practices.
A dimension that focuses on ambiguity and the extent to which societies focus on ways to accept it or confront it.
What is Uncertainty Avoidance.
The greatest responsibility is for one’s self and immediate family, for one’s own group that is defined in different ways, or for one’s groups that are arranged in a rigid hierarchy.
What is Relationships Between People.
Employees being asked to make decisions about their jobs.
What is Industrial democracy.
The study of human relations started with the scientific management theory that was developed by this person to understand management in the early 20th century.
What is Frederick Taylor.
In the next 30 years, 76 million baby boomers will
retire, but only 46 million new workers will be entering the workforce.
What is Aging workforce and the Millennial Generation.
The extent to which less powerful members of
organizations/institutions accept and expect an unequal distribution of power.
What is Power Distance?
The physical space we use is private, public, a mixture of both.
What is Conception of Space.
A mentioned concept for engineering managers to create an ideal environment for the
engineers to utilize autonomy as developers.
What is Cultivate Engineering Wisdom.