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MANAGEMENT - Coggle Diagram
MANAGEMENT
DEFINITION OF MANAGER
In actual fact, managers are characterized by unrelenting pace, brevity, variety, fragmentation and heavy use of verbal contacts and network. A network is a set of cooperative relationships with individuals whose help is needed in order for a manager to function effectively.
Mintzberg (1980) found that managers’ actual work methods differed drastically from their popular image as planners spending considerable time reading formal reports in their offices.
Managers are defines as an individuals who are owners, founders. Or employees in an organization. Managers are powerful individuals in an organization as they possess authority.
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DEFINITION OF MANAGEMENT
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Management as a process involves several work activities and functions that must be followed and completed by managers in order to achieve organizational goals. Managers must use management principles to guide them in carrying out the management process.
MANAGEMENT LEVEL
Top
Line
manager
Managers positioned at the highest level of the management hierarchy. Also known as strategic managers.
Responsible for the overall management and administration of the organization. They develop organizational policies and monitor the relationship between the organization and its environment.
Top- line managers are also responsible for establishing organizational goals, objectives and operational policies, including corporate social responsibility.
MID LINE MANAGER
Middle- line managers are directly responsible for the performance of their subordinates who are first- line managers.
One of the main responsibilities of middle- line managers is to guide employees to implement activities related to organizational goals.
In general, they are responsible for the implementation of policies and organizational plans set by the top- line managers
FIRST LINE MANAGER
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Example: chemical lab supervisors in a chemistry research facility, production supervisor
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Managerial Skills
Technical Skills
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Includes the mastery of methods, techniques and equipment involved in specific functions such as engineering, manufacturing or finance.
Also includes specialized knowledge, analytical ability and the competent use of tools and techniques to solve problems in a specific discipline.
Human Skills
These skills are demonstrated in the way a manager relates to workers, including the ability to motivate, facilitate, lead, communicate and resolves conflicts.
They have good judgment for making decisions such as hiring staff or setting company policy, which are just as important as workforce diversity and competition for highly skilled knowledge workers has increased.
In the global market, workforce diversity and competition for highly skilled knowledge workers has increased. Thus, human skills have become even more crucial as management skills.
Conceptual Skills
It involves knowing where one’s department fits into the total organization and how the organization fit into industry, the community and the broader business and social environment.
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For example; Microsoft, the giant software company, reflects the conceptual skills of its founder and chairman, Bill Gates.
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