PAD 101: TERM TO KNOW (DEFINITION OR MEANING)

1. DIVISION OF LABOR (OR JOB SPECIALIZATION)

 The separation of a work process into a number of tasks, with each
task performed by a separate person or group of persons.

2. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
 The industrial revolution refers to a period of major economic
transitions through new production processes.

3. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
 Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and
synthesizes workflows.

4. THERBLIGS
 Therbligs are 18 kinds of elemental motions used in the study of motion
economy in the workplace.

5. GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE THEORY

 Based on the concept of departmentalization, which means the
different activities to be performed for achieving the common purpose
of the organization should be identified and be classified into different
groups or departments, such that the task can be accomplished
effectively.

6. PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
 The organisational principle is the great and overall direction for
determining the performance. For instance, while ascertaining about
the promotion of an employee, a manager may contemplate seniority,
whereas the other may follow the principle of quality.

7. BUREAUCRACY
 A system of government in which most of the important decisions are
taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives.

8. QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
 The quantitative approach involves the use of quantitative techniques
to improve decision making. This approach is also called operations
research or management science.
9. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (OB)

 A subdiscipline of applied behavior analysis (ABA), which is the

application of behavior analytic principles and contingency
management techniques to change behavior in organizational settings.

10. HAWTHORNE STUDIES

 Series of investigations conducted by Elton Mayo and Fritz
Roethlisberger were a part of a refocus on managerial strategy with
emphasis on the socio-psychological aspects of human behaviour in
organizations.

11. SYSTEM
 The enterprise-wide management of IT systems. It is usually directed
by an organization’s chief information officer (CIO).