Developing Workplace Critical Thinking: Impact of Human Relations and Contingency Theory on Beliefs, Attitudes and Values in Giorgio Armani

Developing
Workplace Critical
Thinking
Giorgio Armani

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Executive Summary
In the present age of globalization the role of management has taken a U-turn and it has
become more complex in nature. Leadership and the management use plethora of
management theories to create best practices and system in the organization. Values,
beliefs and attitude of a person shape the personality of a human being and provide him
to behave in the best possible manner in the business organization. Values, as one can
understand is the ideas which holds a significant importance to the human being, these
values are shaped by one’s own culture and his upbringing. Belief on the other hand is
something which is very close to the heart of a human being, without having an
empirical evidence one considers the belief to be true. While attitude is simply a
reflection of how one interacts or behaves in the organization, and is simply a reflection
of one likes and dislikes regarding any object, thing or a person. Within the purview of
the report, the impact of Human relation theory and contingency theory on the belief,
attitude and value of individual are ascertained in the personal life and in the
workplace.

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Table of Content
Brief Introduction............................................................................................................................................... 3
Understanding Belief, Values and Attitude.............................................................................................5
Management Theories...................................................................................................................................... 6
Human Relations Theory.................................................................................................................................6
Principles of the Theory.............................................................................................................................. 7
Impact of Human relations theory on Values, Beliefs and Attitudes.......................................8
Impact on Belief Systems............................................................................................................................ 8
Impact on Attitudes....................................................................................................................................... 9
Impact on the Values.................................................................................................................................. 10
Contingency Theory of Management...................................................................................................... 11
Categorization of the Organization according to the three variables in the Contingency
Theory.............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Understanding the internal and external factors in Contingency Theory..........................12
Evaluation of the manager.......................................................................................................................12
Impact of Management Theory on the Beliefs, values and attitudes in the workplace....13
Impact on the Beliefs..................................................................................................................................13
Impact on Attitude...................................................................................................................................... 14
Impact on Values.......................................................................................................................................... 14
Conclusion........................................................................................................................................................... 15
References........................................................................................................................................................... 16

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