Lernmaterialien für A&O Psychology an der Universität Siegen

• Behaviourism, Cognitivism
• Pragmatism, Constructivism
• Socio-cultural theories
• Neurological theories
• Philosophical theories
• Political theories, ecological theories
• Economical theories, game theories
• Learning Theories, evolutionary and development theories
• Epistemological and methodological theories

• Formal Communication:
  • Official structures and processes
  • Standardized and controlled communication
• Downward Communication/Top-down approach:
  • Top Level Management communicates to the lower levels
  • Implement policies
• Upward Communication/Bottom-up approach:
  • Top Level Management needs information from lower levels
  • Feedback, improvement, suggestions, etc.
• Informal communication:
  • Interpersonal, horizontal communication

  • Increasing relevance and attention

An emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action whether conscious or unconscious

• Bounded Reality: People making decisions in organizations seldom have complete information, and tend to pick the first acceptable option
• Theory on Learning Organization
• Theory on Systems Thinking
• Communication-in-context model

• Hypothesis Generating
  • To explore and describe new field, when there is no assumption but only new problems
  • Find new insight, generate new assumptions/hypotheses
  • Uses Qualitative method
• Hypothesis Testing
  • To explain or to predict something in already existing field
  • To prove, verify/falsify hypotheses
  • Uses Quantitative method

• Improves Organizational Efficiency
• Improves objectivity/rationality of

  organization, structure and

  processes

• Supports planning and control/management rationales

• Supports accountability

• Central mechanism of rationalization of modern society
• Solves the problem of favoritism and nepotism

• Hawthorne-Study on individual vs. group performance & Socio-cultural effects
• Participation Theory
• Growth Perspective

• Monotonous & repeated task which can decrease motivation of the workers 
• Workers are exchangeable, because they do small tasks and manual activities.
• De-qualification and dis-satisfaction from workers