When you finish studying the material in this chapter, you should be able to:

• Give an overview of the different views that were a source for the development of the organisational behaviour field.
• Explain Taylor’s principles.
• Describe the five key tasks of a manager according to Fayol.
• Give Barnard’s view on co-operation.
• Explain Simon’s ideas about motivating workers and bounded rationality.
• Describe the four alternative views on organisation studies.
• Contrast McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y assumptions about employees.
• Describe Morgan’s eight organisational metaphors.
• Define the term organisational behaviour (OB) and explain why OB is a horizontal discipline.