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Human Relations Movement refers to those researchers of organizational development who study the behavior of people in groups, in particular workplace groups. It originated in the 1920s' Hawthorne studies, which examined the effects of social relations, motivation and employee satisfaction on factory productivity. The movement viewed workers in terms of their psychology and fit with companies, rather than as interchangeable parts.

"The hallmark of human-relation theories is the primacy given to organizations as human cooperative systems rather than mechanical contraptions."

Barnard stressed the following:
  1. Natural groups, in which social aspects take precedence over functional organizational structures
  2. Upwards communication, by which communication is two way, from worker to chief executive, as well as vice versa.
  3. Cohesive and good leadership is needed to communicate goals and to ensure effective and coherent decision making


(Managing Organizations, Wilson and Rosenfeld, Mcgraw Hill Book Company, London, p9)

Institutes where Human Relations is studied include:
  • The Tavistock Institute, co-publishers of the Human Relations journal
  • The NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science
  • The Oasis School of Human Relations, Oasis Press publishes human relations books and manuals
  • Trevecca Nazarene University, Bachelors Degree in Management and Human Relations for working adults
  • The University of Oklahoma offers a Bachelor of Arts in Human Relations as well as a Master of Human Relations.

Further Reading

  • Kyle Bruce, "Henry S. Dennison, Elton Mayo, and Human Relations historiography" in: Management & Organizational History, 2006, 1: 177-199

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Organization development, according to Richard Beckhard, is defined as: a planned effort, organization-wide, managed from the top, to increase organization effectiveness and health, through planned interventions in the organization's 'processes', using behavioural science knowledge.
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Group behaviour in sociology refers to the situations where
  • people interact inside small groups, for example to reach or not a consensus and act in a coordinated way. This is the field of group dynamics.

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The Hawthorne effect refers to a phenomenon which is thought to occur when people observed during a research study temporarily change their behavior or performance (this can also be referred to as demand characteristics).
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Social relation can refer to a multitude of social interactions, regulated by social norms, between two or more people, with each having a social position and performing a social role.
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Motivation is a reason or set of reasons for engaging in a particular behavior, especially human behavior as studied in psychology and neuropsychology. The reasons may include basic needs (e.g.
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productivity is the amount of output created (in terms of goods produced or services rendered) per unit input used. For instance, labour productivity is typically measured as output per worker or output per labour-hour.
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Psychology (from Greek: Literally "talk about the soul" (from logos)) is both an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
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Cooperation, co-operation or coöperation[1] is the practice of individuals or larger societal entities working in common with mutually agreed-upon goals and possibly methods, instead of working separately in competition, and in which the success of one is
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Barnard may mean:

People

  • Alfred Barnard (1837 – 1918), British brewing and distilling historian
  • Lady Anne Barnard (1750 – 1825), British author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray"
  • Barney Gumble, a fictional character on The Simpsons

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Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged with each other.
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The word leadership can refer to:
  1. The process of leading.
  2. Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading.
  3. The ability to affect human behaviour so as to accomplish a mission designated by the leader

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Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among variations. Every decision making process produces a final choice. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but know not what.
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Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a charity concerned with group behaviour and organisational behaviour. It was launched in 1946, when it separated from the Tavistock Clinic.
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University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma.
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Group dynamics is the study of groups, and also a general term for group processes. In psychology and sociology, a group is two or more individuals who are connected to each other by social relationships.
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