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Date Submitted: 11/17/2010 01:41 AM
Eyal Rechter
Organizational behavior looks at the people and asks questions like: how do we improve employee satisfaction? What makes a good manager?
What is the relationships between motivation and performance?
How can we lower stress? Is pressure good?
Beitar Jerusalem:
Players have an expensive contract, what should the company do to avoid bankruptcy?
Raise ticket prices
Issue bonds/shares
Take a loan
Sell the company to the players
Merchandise, Rent out stadium
So what did do?
1. Lowered the salaries of the players and coach (lead by personal example)
Leading by example only works when:
the employees have a personal interest in the survival of a company
the employees are loyal
2. Found a new sponsor
Easy Life (furniture manufacturer for kids)
The owners don’t want to let Lucy go (because she is a good designer), but none of the people she hired lasted more than 1 year. What should they do?
Examine her selection process
Bonuses
Base salaries on a commission (employees are more competitive, but less of a team if they are pinned against one another)
List job requirements and demands
Lucy is a good designer but not a good manager (we want to explore her managerial skills by:
Promising numbers (profit maximisation), good atmosphere,
Indicated by employee satisfaction (Daniel’s ‘stone in shoe’ metaphor)
Leader, motivator
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Organization = a structured social system consisting of groups and individuals working together to meet some agreed upon goals
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Small businesses disappeared
Urbanisation = immigration waves entered the city
Large labor force, so wages were low
Ill or injured employees were replaced
Because of the oppressive conditions, workers united in Unions
Time and Motion study
Winslow Taylor ‘The father of Scientific Management’ (measure a pipe-movers productivity: monitor him.. make a change in his breaks.. monitor efficiency once-more) Rubbish cleaner’s ideal...