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Organisational Behaviour
SOFT SKILLS WORLD
Workshop plan
►Structure of the workshop
►Issues to explore in the workshop
►Historical overview
►Day long session
►Duration: 6 to 8 hours
► Any question?
Structure of the workshop
SOME RECOMMENDED SOURCES
Organization Studies
Organizational Science
Organization Behaviour
Human Relations
Harvard Business Review
Introduction to Organizational behaviour
Research in Organizational Behavior
Economists, Financial times…
Organizational behaviour (OB)
“the study of human behaviour in organizational
contexts with a focus on individual and group
processes and actions” (pp.2)
Issues to explore in the workshop
Issues to explore in the workshop
Hong Kong stock exchange, 1994
“An entitative approach [to organisations] fails to represent what it means to be human, misrepresents the qualities of the relational processes and, more
generally, grossly distorts
the relationships between
person and organisation”
(Hoskings and Morley 1991:IX)
Issues to explore in the workshop
“The relationship between a person and a context involves accommodation (changing oneself) and assimilation (changing the context)… people are both products of their contexts and participants in the shaping of those contexts.” (Hoskings and Morley, 1991:5)
Any Question?
Issues to explore in the workshop
The notion of an organisation as an imperative, absolute entity, is the direct outcome of historical transformations occurred in Europe and North America from the end of the 18th century onwards:
Before the 19th Century:
► Experience of Artisan work (e.g. Ironsmith)
Technical skills, personal competence and craft pride constitutive of the working process.
Industrial revolution in the 19th Century
Close relationship between the subject of work and his/her activity was lost
Historical overview
Early 20th Century: ‘Classical approach’
Advent of scientific management (F.W. Taylor)
Aim: controlling labour through science
Far-reaching process of establishing control and surveillance: to discipline the mind and body of the productive subject was the central concern.
Deconstruction of the task from „within‟
Rigid control over time and body movements
Conception and execution as separate domains in hierarchical relationships
Technology for social control
Historical overview
Historical overview
Historical overview
Hawthorne Studies and the Human RelationsMovement (Elton Mayo, 1923-1933)
Hawthorne studies: environment and productivity? Results: organizations are social systems, not just technical
economical systems Groups, teamwork, different job roles, human relations are of great
significance in organizations We are motivated by many needs Leadership should be modified to include concepts of human
relations
A new discipline of human behaviour and, by extension, Organisational behaviour. (1960s)
Systems Rationalist approach
Modern Approach
1. The organization seen as an open socio-technical system.
2. The existence of subsystems which interact with one another.
3. Management is a distinct subsystem which is responsible for direction and coordination of all other subsystems.
Organisation (open system view)
Transformation process outputsinputs
Historical overview
Andreas Gursky’s The factory
► People‟s subjectivity in relation to organisational processes.
► Political and cultural nature of social relations.
► Social construction of organisational reality, co-creation of the phenomenon you are seeking to study.
Historical overview
Symbolic-Interpretative perspective
To explore in the workshop
BY INTRODUCING
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
TO THE UNDERSTANDING
OF PEOPLE AND
ORGANISATIONS, WE HOPE:
TO STIMULATE YOUR SEARCH
FOR NEW KNOWLEDGE,
CREATIVITY AND SKILLS AS
ORGANISATIONAL
PRACTITIONERS