Intro To Management
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Organizing - involves assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments, delegating authority, and allocating resources across the organization.

Leading - consists of motivating employees and influencing their behavior to achieve organizational objectives

Planning - defining goals, establishing strategy, and developing plans

Controlling - monitor something. Also referred to as “change management,” control management refers in a management context to setting standards, measuring actual performance, and taking corrective action.

General Skills for Managers
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Interpersonal skills - are the behaviors and tactics a person uses to interact with others effectively.

Technical skills - knowledge and capabilities to perform field-specific, specialized tasks.

Conceptual skills - skills that enable individuals to identify, conceptualize, and solve intricate problems.

Political skills - The ability to effectively understand others at work, and to use such knowledge to influence others to act in ways that enhance one’s personal and/or organizational objectives

Major Classification of Management Approaches download (5)

Behavioural Approach

Quantitative Approach

Classical Approach

Modern Approach

Bureaucratic Management - contained two essential elements, including structuring an organization into a hierarchy and having clearly defined rules to help govern an organization and its members.

Administrative Management - focused on principles that could be used by managers to coordinate the internal activities of organizations.

Scientific Management - that kind of management which conducts a business or affairs by standards established, by facts or truths gained through systematic observation, experiment, or reasoning.

Maslow Need's Hierarchy - theory of motivation which states that five categories of human needs dictate an individual's behavior. Those needs are physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

Theory X and Theory Y - theories of human work motivation and management.

Hawthorne Studies - workers were highly responsive to additional attention from their managers and the feeling that their managers actually cared about, and were interested in, their work.

Operations Management - the administration of business practices to create the highest level of efficiency possible within an organization.

Management Information System - is an information system used for decision-making, and for the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information in an organization and marketing

Management Science - stresses the use of mathematical models and statistical methods for decision-making.

Contingency Theory - theory that management effectiveness is contingent, or dependent, upon the interplay between the application of management behaviors and specific situations.

Emerging Approaches - directs the efforts of management towards bringing about continuous improvement in product and service quality to achieve higher levels of customer satisfaction and build customer loyalty.

The Systems Theory - interdisciplinary study of systems, which are cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent parts that can be natural or human-made.