TABLE OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR3 BEHAVIOUR AND ORGANISATIONS3 Organisational behaviour3 Development of organisations and definitions3 The many questions4 Timeline of management theories4 Scientific management theory4 Classical management theory5 The Human relations school5 Open-system theory6 Socio-technical theory6 Human resource management6 Managerial competencies6 ATTRIBUTES OF INDIVIDUALS7 Values, attributes, needs and expectations7 Trait approaches to personality7 The structure of personality7 Environmental approaches to personality7 Cognitive theories8 Perception8 THEORIES OF MOTIVATION9 Content theories9 Maslow's hierarchy of needs9 …showed first 75 words of 6932 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6932 total…be mentioned though that the findings of Perrow are not completely compatible with those of Woodward. We do know however that these all have fundamental implications for the operations of the firm and that adopting changes in organisational structure without regard to contingencies can bolster the probability of success or can exacerbate failure. References Books: David C. Buchanan and Robert H. Rosenfeld - Managing organisations Andrzej Huczynski and David Buchanan - Organisational Behaviour, Second Edition