In the late 1960s Henry Mintzberg, a graduate student at MIT undertook a careful study of five executives to determine what those managers did on their jobs.. On the basis of his observations, Mintzberg classifies managerial roles into 3 categories 1. Interpersonal Roles 2. Decisional Roles 3. Informational Roles
Rational Decision-Making Model
Scientific management
Garbage can model
Theories of decision making can be subdivided into three categories
Normative (concentrates on how decision should be made)
Descriptive (concerned with how the thinker came up with their judgement)
Prescripted (aim to improve decision making)
Organization structures and dynamics
Incentive theory is a concept of human resources or management theory. In the corporate sense, it states that firm owners should structure employee compensation in such a way that the employees' goals are aligned with owners' goals. As it applies to the operations of firms, it is more accurately called the principal–agent problem.
Bureaucracy
Complexity theory and organizations
Contingency theory
Evolutionary Theory and organizations
Hybrid organisation
Informal Organization
Institutional theory
Merger integration
Organizational ecology
Model of Organizational Citizenship behaviour
Model of organizational justice
Model of Organizational Misbehaviour
Resource dependence theory
Transaction cost
Hofstede's Framework for Assessing Cultures
Mintzberg's Organigraph
Personality traits theories
Big Five personality traits
Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Control and stress modelling
Herzberg's Two factor theory
Theory X and Theory Y
Motivation in organizations
Motivation the forces either internal or external to a person that arouse enthusiasm and resistance to pursue a certain course of action. According to Baron et al. (2008): "Although motivation is a broad and complex concept, organizational scientists have agreed on its basic characteristics. Drawing from various social sciences, we define motivation as the set of processes that arouse, direct, and maintain human behavior toward attaining some goal"
There are many different motivation theories such as:
Attribution theory
Equity theory
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Incentive theory (psychology)
Model of emotional labor in organizations
Frederick Herzberg two-factor theory
Expectancy theory