INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEM

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the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources.

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Management

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FOUR MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS

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Planning, Organizing, Leading, Controlling

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identifying goals for future organizational performance and deciding on the tasks and use of resources needed to attain them.

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Planning

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involves assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments, delegating authority, and allocating resources across the organization.

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Organizing

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use of influence to motivate employees to achieve organizational goals. It means creating a shared culture and values, communicating goals to employees throughout the organization, and infusing employees with the desire to perform at a high level.

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Leading

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monitoring employees’ activities, determining whether the organization is on target toward its goals, and making corrections, as necessary.

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Controlling

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Leadership Styles

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Authoritative, Participative, Deligative, Combination

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Leader informs employees what is to be done and how it is to be performed

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Authoritative

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Includes one or more employees in the decision-making process, with the leader maintaining the final decision-making authority

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Participative

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Leader confers the decision- making ability to the employees, with the leader still responsible for the decisions made by the employees

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Delegative

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All three styles are used, depending on the issues involved

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Combination

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It promotes standardization, specialization, assignment based on ability, and extensive training and supervision. Only through those practices can a business achieve efficiency and productivity.

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Scientific Management by Frederick Taylor

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His principles of administrative management as a top-down approach to examining a business. He put himself in his manager’s shoes and imagined what situations they might encounter when dealing with their team.

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Administrative Management by Henri Fayol

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explains the setup, operation, and management of organizations as formal, rational, well-organized, hierarchical systems.

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Bureaucratic Theory by Weber

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Two Key Phenomena of Bureaucratic Theory

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1. Professionalization - secureand
   efficient legal, financial etc. transactions.
2. Rationalization - organization based on reason and objectivity rather than emotions or arbitrariness.

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all individuals focus on the fundamental needs and once those are fulfilled will progress to higher needs

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs By Abraham Maslow

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Theory of motivation in which employees base their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with work on hygiene factors and motivator factors

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Motivator-Hygiene Theory By Frederick Herzberg

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Theory X and Y was proposed by:

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Douglas Mcgregor

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in which he states that employees are more motivated by social factors — like personal attention or being part of a group — than environmental factors, such as money and working conditions.

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Human Relations by Elton Mayo

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plotted leadership behavior on a grid based on concern for people versus concern for production, with a scale of 1 to 9 based on the level of concern.

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Blake Mouton Managerial Grib by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton

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effective leadership was directly related to the traits the leader displayed in any given situation.

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Contingency Management by Fred Fiedler

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theory of psychological types to make insights of type theory applicable to individuals and groups. A grid displays the 16 personality types based on your indicators

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Myers Briggs Type Indicator

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the cognitive ability to see the organization as a whole system and the relationships among its parts.

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Conceptual Skills

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involves the manager’s thinking, information processing, and planning abilities.

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Conceptual Skills

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manager’s ability to work with and through other people and to work effectively as a group member.

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Human Skills

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the understanding of and proficiency in the performance of specific tasks.

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Technical Skills

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mastery of the methods, techniques, and equipment involved in specific functions such as engineering, manufacturing, or finance.

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Technical Skills

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• directly responsible to produce
  goods and services
• responsible for groups of non-management employees
• primary concern is the application of rules and procedures to achieve efficient production, provide technical assistance, and motivate subordinates.

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Low-Level Managers

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responsible for business units and major departments.
➢They are responsible for implementing the overall strategies and policies defined by top managers.
➢Generally, are concerned with the near future rather than with long-range planning.

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Middle Level Managers

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➢are at the top of the hierarchy and are
responsible for the entire organization.
➢responsible for setting organizational goals, defining strategies for achieving them, monitoring and interpreting the external environment, and making decisions that affect the entire organization.
➢responsible for communicating a shared vision for the organization, shaping corporate culture, and nurturing an entrepreneurial spirit that can help the company innovate and keep pace with rapid change.

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Top Level Managements

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responsible for a temporary work project that involves the participation of people from various functions and levels of the organization, and perhaps from outside the company as well.

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Project Manager

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responsible for departments that perform a single functional task and have employees with similar training and skills.

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Functional Managers

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➢are responsible for several departments that perform different functions.
➢responsible for a self- contained division, and for all the functional departments within it.

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General Managers

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a management tool whereby managers and employees work together to set and track objectives for a specific time period.

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Management by Objectives