Summary Organizational Behaviour - Organisational behaviour (OB)

Summary Organizational Behaviour
Fleur Bongers




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,Table of Contents
Summary Organizational Behaviour Fleur Bongers.............................................................1
Exam Topics.......................................................................................................................4
Chapter 1...........................................................................................................................5
Theme 1: Rational Organization....................................................................................................5
Theme 2:......................................................................................................................................5
Theme 3.......................................................................................................................................5
Theme 4:......................................................................................................................................5
Theme 5.......................................................................................................................................5
Key underlining principles of Organizational Behaviour................................................................6
Chapter 2...........................................................................................................................7
Fayol’s five functions in management:..........................................................................................8
Structure and hierarchy................................................................................................................8
Rules, policies, procedures in organizations..................................................................................9
Bureaucratic techniques and Fayol’s five principles of management (1949) in large-scale
organizations..............................................................................................................................10
Max Webers thoughts on Bureaucracy and its increase in power...............................................10
PEST Model.................................................................................................................................11
Fayol’s five functions of management (1949) and the gig economy:...........................................12
Chapter 3.........................................................................................................................13
The capitalist wage–labour relationship.....................................................................................13
Tensions in the capitalist wage–labour relationship....................................................................14
Frederick W. Taylor: efficiency and control..................................................................................14
Four principles of scientific management (Taylor, 1911).............................................................15
Control through Taylorism..........................................................................................................15
Assembly line - Ford...................................................................................................................15
Marx alienation..........................................................................................................................16
Post-Fordism:..............................................................................................................................17
Neo-Fordism:..............................................................................................................................17
Chapter 4.........................................................................................................................18
Rationalization in the Third Industrial Revolution.......................................................................18
Chapter 5.........................................................................................................................20
Hawthorne studies.....................................................................................................................20
Groups........................................................................................................................................21

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,Chapter 7.........................................................................................................................23
Table 7.2 The link between culture and feedback (Deal and Kennedy, 1982)..............................23
Table 7.3 Handy’s four cultural categories...................................................................................24
Chapter 8.........................................................................................................................27
Nomothetic approaches to personality.......................................................................................27
Key Points of the Ideographic Approach:....................................................................................30
Chapter 9.........................................................................................................................32
Motivation..................................................................................................................................32
Intrinsic Motivation....................................................................................................................33
Extrinsic Motivation....................................................................................................................33
Herzberg's Job Enrichment Theory..............................................................................................34
Adams—Equity Theory...............................................................................................................35
Vroom—Expectancy Theory........................................................................................................35
Goal Setting Theory....................................................................................................................35
Chapter 13.......................................................................................................................38
Theories of leadership................................................................................................................38
Leadership styles........................................................................................................................40
Contingency theory:...................................................................................................................41
Chapter 14.......................................................................................................................43
Three types of power..................................................................................................................44
Chapter 17.......................................................................................................................47
Ethical framework.......................................................................................................................48




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, Exam Topics
 Thinking of leadership
 Transformational
 Transactional
 Post heroic
 Servant leadership
 Authentic
 Followership
 Contingency
 Friends and Robbins model
 CSR
 Business ethics
 Ethical Framework
 Bureaucracy
 Friedman
 Adams
 Marks
 interdisciplinary nature of OB
 Taylor
 Mayo
 Hofmann studies
 Organizational Culture, waterman, stein
 Personality Types
 Motivation theory  Hertzberg
 Adams equity theory




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