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CHAPTER 1
Foundations of
Organisational Behaviour
ORGANISATIONAL
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
BEHAVIOUR
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
an industrial one.
o Karl Marx development of the working class.
o Emile Durkheim studied the loss of solidarity in the new kind of society.
o Max Weber was the first to study the working of organisations and the
behaviour of people within organisations.
o He is especially known for his work on bureaucracy.
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Frederick Taylor
• SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
• Worker/factory outcomes:
- Higher output/Standardisation
- Control and predictability
- Replacement of skilled workers by
non-skilled workers
- Thinking is for the managers only
Henri Fayol
Henri Fayol
14 GENERAL MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
Chester Barnard
• Dynamism • Leadership
• Empowerment • Conflict
• Participation • Experience
Douglas McGregor
Table 1.2
McGregor’s
Theory X and
Theory Y
Table 1.3
Morgan’s
Organisational
Metaphors
Symbolic
interactionism
Postmodernism
• Rejects uniform concepts, general principles or any other statement about the
truth or the true world.
• Questions traditional boundaries.
• Work will be more flexible, informal, decentralised and unpredictable.
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A MODEL OF
COMPETITION
RESOURCE
DEPENDENC
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Alternative views
• Conflict theory:
o Social structures and relationships in
organisations are based on conflicts
between groups and social classes
• Critical theory:
o Critics to the rational, functionalistic,
managerial and capitalistic views on
organisatons