Organizational studies and human resource management

ANALYSIS OF FOUR ORGANISATIONAL THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS Brendan Ryan University of the People  Abstract This paper briefly analyses four important theoretical schools of thought in Organisational Theory. Taylors Scientific Management Theory, Fayols Administrative Theory, Webers Bureaucracy and Organisational Structure Theory and Simons Administrative Behaviour Theory. It then goes on to provide a closer look at Fayols Administrative Theory, and the way its concepts have influenced the…

Organizations iOrganizations in today’s society are emphasizing there motive on distinctive reasoning’s on time and resources in the industry. As this is, an accepted reality that no agency in the world can contend in this world just on the mere cornerstone of their product and services. In place for a corporation to be successful, it has to reserve greatly into the field of people skills, and their performance. Contribution to stressful working environment, many corporations fail to keep…

Communication, being an essential part of organisational leadership affects the members of the organisations and thus in turn the performance of the organisation as a whole. Novick, Morrow and Mays (2008) substantiated this by stating that, the most important skills required by a leader in the 21st century are communication skills. Roebuck (2012) mentioned that leading change and encouraging a vision for internal communication and interacting with external stakeholders for eminent position and…

the fundamental assumptions or beliefs help by an individual. It can be understood that research philosophy is an overall term that relates to the development of knowledge and the nature of that knowledge in relation to research. In business and management research, it is significant to consider or philosophical position because it gives effects on the way the researcher conducted the research (Saunders & Lewis, 2012). There are four main strands of research philosophy including positivism,…

Throughout the course of this investigation my aim is to study the contributions that both Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) and Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000) made to the field of management. I will study how these management theorists have impacted the way in which we look at the field of management through analyzing the two theories that they put forward in 1943 and 1968, respectively. I will use a number of scholarly journals and articles and also books to research the contributions that each…

Stogdill, leadership is defined as “the process of influencing the activities of an organized group in its efforts toward goal setting, and goal achievement” (Stogdill, 1950). Management is a process of maintaining and designing an organization where individuals work efficiently together in groups to accomplish organizational goals and objectives (Krontz & Weilhrich, 2003) The majority of leadership theories are based on the perspective of relationship, trait characteristics, behaviour and…

The foundational management philosopher for this essay is peter Drucker. Drucker is the father or inventor of self control and management by objectives concepts in management which form the basis of modern management. In this essay, management by objectives is analyzed and contrasted to the works of Blell, emotional intelligence and Jorfi, Moghadam and Jorfi impact of Emotional Intelligence on Performance of Employees. Management by objective focuses on making management effective where the…

Anatomy of Performance (“AOP”) is a framework for performance improvement that uses needs assessment methods to understand and address the variables that influence organizational performance. AOP was codified as a process in 1990, with the publication of Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart by Geary Rummler and Alan Brache. This framework emerged from decades of work by the authors in the Performance Improvement field and the Programmed Instruction…

Leadership and Organizational Change Worksheet Task A: Models and theories of change Instructions for Task A: In the Response row, identify three models or theories of change that CrysTel might apply as it implements its change initiative. Be sure to cite your sources. Response to Task A: 1. Equity (motivation with fairness in social exchanges). Understanding the importance of equity model can be determined by how each department functions distinctly to the added whole of the CrysTel.…

occurrences that happen in their workplace that impact their performance, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. The theory further recommended that affective work behaviors are explained by employee mood and emotions, while cognitive-based behaviors are the best predictors of job satisfaction. This resulted in lasting internal and external affective reactions exhibited through job performance, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. For instance, suppression of unpleasant…