Human Relations

This volume of readings traces the development of the Human Relations approach to management thought from its beginnings in the 1930s up to the 1970s. The selected readings represent early classics in the field as well as later influential articles. The book opens with an introductory essay by the editors on this important stream of ideas that had an impact on the management of organizations for more than three decades.

Early Writers: Research in human relations
The foremaster: master and victim of double talk
The industrial 'rate-buster': a characterization
Plant sociology: the elite and the aborigines
The Individual and the Organization: Personality and organization theory revisited
Reciprocation: the relationship between man and organization
Theory X: the traditional view of direction and control, and Theory Y: the integration of individual and organizational goals
The individual, the organization and the career: conceptual scheme
On socio-technical systems
Motivation: A theory of human motivation
A hypothesis restated and expanded and motivation versus hygiene
Toward a theory of motive acquisition
Motivation - a point of view
The motivational basis of organizational behaviour
Leadership: Leadership climate, human relations training and supervisory behaviour
An integrating principle and an overview
A path goal theory of leader effectiveness
Leadership theory and administrative behaviour: the problem of authority
How to choose a leadership pattern
Group Dynamics: Frontiers in group dynamics: concept, method and reality in social science
Social Equilibria and Social Change: Overcoming resistance to change
Social behaviour as exchange
Group think
Stages of small-group development revisited
Organizational Development: The emergence and early history of organization development: with reference to influences on and interaction among some of the key actors
Laboratory education: impact on people and organizations
Organizational development: credits and debits
The diffusion of new work structures: explaining why success didn't work
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