® Acodemy of Management Heview 1993, Vol. 18, No. 3. 518-545. FOUCAULT. POWER/KNOWLEDGE. AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT BARBARA TOWNLEY The University of Alberta Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault. I argue that human resource management (HRM) may be best understood as a discourse and set of practices that attempt to reduce the indeterminacy involved in the employment contract. Here I reread HRM practices from a Foucauldian power-knowledge perspective and suggest that this
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THE EARLY SOCIOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS THE EARLY SOCIOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME I Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor Comprising: Shop Management The Principles of Scientific Management Testimony Before the Special House Committee VOLUME II The Philosophy of Management Oliver Sheldon VOLUME III Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett Edited by Henry C.Metcalf and L.Urwick VOLUME IV Papers on the Science of Administration Edited
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BALM111 BCD140 BSB203 PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CAT 1 BALM/NRB/5120/13 Dorothy Awuor Obura Submitted to: Mbiyu Muhugura 15TH February, 2014 1) Describe management in terms of its functions (5 marks) Ans. According to Mary Parker Follett, “Management is the art of getting things done through other people” (Medical and Urwick 1941). Below are various functions of Management 1. Planning: This is a managerial function that determines in advance what
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chapter two The Evolution of Management Thought McGraw-Hill/Irwin Contemporary Management, 5/e Copyright © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserv The Evolution of Management Theory 2-2 Scientific Management Theory Evolution of modern management began towards end 19th century due to the outcome of the industrial revolution 2-3 Steam Engine by Watt (1763) 2-4 Spinning Jenny by Hargreaves (1764) 2-5 Job Specialization and the Division of Labor
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Evolution of Human Resource Management 21st Century HR Helping to determine the companies' overall direction, HR departments focus on building organizational capabilities using employee management and development strategies that align with organizational goals. World War I & The emergence of HRM as profession (1911-1914) 20th century witnessed severe labor unrest due to the employment-at-will doctrine and yellow-dog contracts that allowed employers to fire employees at will. Quality
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information most effectively by listening or talking +kinesthetic leaner- one who process information most effectively by actively engaging with the material +hypotheses- tentative guesses or hunches for an expected observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested +variables- entities that can take on different values +Surveys- research tools used to explicit respondents reactions to specific questions +field study-research conducted in actual organizationions. They may include
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how public administration should be, and also to describe and to analyze the actual administrative situations. There different forms of public administration which are divide as follows; Philosophical approach Legal approach Historical approach Scientific approach Case Method Approach Institutional and Structural Approach Behavioral Approach Philosophical Approach The Philosophical approach takes within its purview all aspects of administrative activities. The main goal of this approach is to find
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The main functions of Human resource Management are; * Job Design (JD) * Job Analysis * Human Resource Planning (HRP) * Recruitment * Selection * Hiring * Induction * Performance Evaluation * Compensation Management * Training and Development * Employee Movements * Welfare Administration * Health and safety Administration * Discipline Administration * Grievance Handling * Labour Relations Job Design (JD) JD can be defined as the function
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evolving into flexible organizations. Changing from a formal organization to flexible organization will allow a great deal of characteristics to change. In the beginning formal organizations believed in a system called the scientific management. The innovators in Scientific Management involved such famous theorists, writers, and industry experts as Taylor, the Gilbreths, Cooke, and Gantt. This type
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HISTORICAL VIEWS OF MOTIVATION. Evolution can be traced from scientific management, through the human relations movement, to the human resource approach. Scientific management: The assumptions of scientific management were that work is inherently unpleasant for most people and the money they earn is more important to employees than is the nature of the job they are performing. Human relations movement: This school of thought emphasized the role of social processes
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