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Historical Background of Organizational Behavior
(prepared by Professor Edward G. Wertheim, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115)
Table of Contents
Taylorism and Scientific Management
The Human Relations Movement
Theory X and Theory Y
Schools of Thought in Organizational Behavior

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Certainly large numbers of people have been doing work for a long time. Pyramids and many other huge monuments and structures were built, armies and governments were organized, Civilizations spread over vast territories. This took organization and management. There are some writings from antiquity that suggest that systematic approaches to management and organization did evolve and were transmitted to others.
But the primary influences in organizations and management today stem from more recent events.

Some would claim that to begin to understand our organizations......

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