Initial Post and 2 responses

Module Based Content

Consider this module’s topics and readings you found as well as the Management History Timeline. Identify improvements made to the original methods used in the illumination experiments while conducting the relay-assembly test room experiments. In your view, how are these differences significant to management thought? 

Landmark Article Research

Here are some topics for you to examine / consider for this week's discussion:

• Organizations and People
• Organizational Structure and Design
• James Mooney
• Administrative Theory
• Span of Control
• Top Management Views / Theories
• Ownership and Control
• Human Relations in Concept / Practice
• Organized Labor
• Human Relations
• Hawthorne Studies Revisited
• The Social Ethic
• The Organizational Man
• Social Values in Organizations
• The New Deal

Contemporary Research

As with every week moving forward, you are to select any topic of interest and locate two recent (5-10 years) articles.  Don't just summarize these articles.  Rather, work to integrate them with the landmark article you found for the week.  What are some similarities/differences/consistencies/inconsistencies/etc?

Don't forget to use the three required headings in your post for the week:

Module Based Content

Landmark Article Research

Contemporary Research