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Understanding Management Principles

The document outlines the nature of management, emphasizing the roles and responsibilities of managers, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve organizational goals. It discusses various management theories and approaches, including classical, human relations, and behavioral sciences, highlighting the evolution of management thinking. Additionally, it covers the levels of management, characteristics of effective goals, and the importance of leadership in influencing and motivating employees.

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Understanding Management Principles

The document outlines the nature of management, emphasizing the roles and responsibilities of managers, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve organizational goals. It discusses various management theories and approaches, including classical, human relations, and behavioral sciences, highlighting the evolution of management thinking. Additionally, it covers the levels of management, characteristics of effective goals, and the importance of leadership in influencing and motivating employees.

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L1 - NATURE OF MANAGEMENT PEOPLE

Teachers
Managers are expected to have: Policemen
Doctors & Nurses
●​ Power - to be in control of financial
resources STRUCTURE
●​ Much in control of things Plan → Organize → Lead =
●​ Responsible - of the departmental
outcome GOOD OUTCOME

Is evaluated on the work of other people MANAGEMENT IS A PROCESS


rather than their own work. -​ Step-by-step operation/series of
action
Management Competencies for Today’s -​ Cannot skip a task / a sequence
World
-​ Process of assembling & using sets
●​ Unexpected events - failure of of resources in a goal-oriented
quality control, weather conditions, manner to accomplish tasks in an
person quitting cuz of personal org.
reasons
●​ Uncertainty = Risk EFFECTIVELY
“If” “will it be” other health-related -​ Doing the right things to achieve
events the job, do the right decisions w
●​ Pull people toward a common goal the right people
i.e. schools (goal to educate more
people) EFFICIENTLY
Police (ensure safety) -​ Getting things done quickly w little
resources & finish a lot of output
Nature of Management
Attainment of org goals in an effective &
●​ Motivate efficient manner through planning,
●​ Coordinating tasks with others organizing, leading & controlling
●​ To cope with organizational resources
●​ Diverse & far-reaching challenges

ORGANIZATION Effective manager is an enabler who helps


-​ Grp of people working together in a people do & be their best
structured & coordinated fashion to
achieve a set of goals NON-MANAGERIAL EMPLOYEES
-​ No responsibility overseeing others
GOALS
UST - Education MANAGERS
Police - Safety → give direction to others
Hospital - Medicine & Well being of → using the org’s resources to help
a person achieve its goals

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LEVELS OF MANAGEMENT
●​ Adventures on multi-taking
TOP LEVEL - CEO, VPs, Pres. ●​ Work at unrelenting pace
-​ strategy, administrative positions,
analytical & conceptual skills
ROLE - set of expectations for a
MIDDLE LEVEL manager’s behavior
-​ Tactical, major managers, human
skills
●​ DECISIONAL
LOW LEVEL -​ Entrepreneur
-​ Operational, team leaders, -​ Disturbance handler
non-managerial employees, -​ Resource allocator
technical skills -​ negotiator

●​ INFORMATIONAL
-​ Monitor
-​ Disseminator
-​ spokesperson

●​ INTERPERSONAL
-​ Figurehead
-​ Leader
-​ Liaison

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FRANK & LILIAN GILBRETH
→ motion & study study

ADMINISTRATIVE
PRINCIPLE → effectively
interact with employees

HENRY FAYOL
-​ 14 principles, promote human
L2 - EVOLUTION OF MANAGEMENT resources, 1st line managers
THINKING
MAX WEBER
HISTORY → become better -​ Bureaucratic theory
-​ Hierarchy in the org
●​ Sense of heritage, avoid repeating -​ Clear chain of command
mistakes -​ Emphasis on efficiency but also
warned on technology
CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVE -​ Theory bout STRUCTURES &
-​ 3000 B.C. by Sumerians & RELATIONS
Egyptians -​ Ideal type of org = bureaucracy
-​ 19th -> 20th century
HUMAN PERSPECTIVE → indiv.
CLASSICAL APPROACH self-awareness, freedom to choose
●​ Scientific management
●​ Administrative principle HUMAN RELATIONS MOVEMENT
●​ Bureaucratic Orgs -​ emphasizes satisfaction of
employee's basic needs as
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT the key to increased worker
→ Frederick Winslow Taylor productivity

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GEORGE ELTON MAYO BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES APPROACH
-​ Founder of this
-​ Found increased
productivity in the
workplace
-​ An employee should be
viewed as a whole person

HUMAN RESOURCES PERSPECTIVE


-​ Jobs should meet
higher-level needs & use
their full potential

ABRAHAM MASLOW = HIERARCHY OF -​ Concerned about the condition of


NEEDS their employee whether it is good /
bad

L3 - PLANNNING

PRIMARY responsibility of a manger is


→ to decide where the org should go in
the future & HOW to get there

> SET GOALS & HOW to reach the goal

1.​ Figure out what the problem is


2.​ Generate potential solutions
3.​ Pick the best option
4.​ Make it work

PLANNING
-​ Desired future the org attempts

LEVELS OF GOALS/PLANS & THEIR


IMPORTANCE

ORG PLANNING PROCESS

1.​ Develop the plan


2.​ Translate the plan
3.​ Plan operations
4.​ Performance Management
5.​ Monitor & learn

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OPERATIONAL GOALS
-​ Precise & measurable

OPERATIONAL PLANS
-​ for daily and weekly operations

CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE GOALS


-​ Specific & measurable
-​ Have a defined time period
-​ Cover key result areas
-​ Are challenging but realistic
-​ Linked to rewards
MISSION
-​ the org’s reason for existence BENEFITS OF PLANNING
-​ Provide a source of motivation &
MISSION STATEMENT commitment
-​ definition of purpose that -​ Guide resource allocation
distinguishes the organization from -​ Set a standard of performance
others
LIMITATIONS OF PLANNING
ViSION STATEMENT -​ Create too much pressure
-​ Company’s purpose & destination it -​ Create false sense of certainty
hopes to reach -​ Cause rigidity in a turbulent
-​ Serves as a guide to people in the environment
org -​ Get in the way of creativity &
-​ Not more than 2 sentences intuition

L4 - ORGANIZING

Manager’s work is influenced by how the


company is organized.

New managers are more comfortable &


more effective working in an org system
compatible with their leadership beliefs.

-​ deployment of org resources to


achieve strategic goals
-​ important because it follows from
strategy
-​ Strategy defines WHAT TO DO and
organizing defines HOW TO DO IT

STRUCTURE → reaching strategic goals

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STRATEGY’S SUCCESS is determined by -​ who reports to whom
its fit organizational structure. -​ establishes accountability,
company’s authority, lines
ORG STRUCTURE of and decision making
-​ Set of formal tasks to individuals & power
departments
-​ Formal reporting relations UNITY OF COMMAND
-​ Design of systems to ensure -​ subordinate should
effective coordination of employees report to only one
across department supervisor
-​ Visual representation
-​ Set of formal tasks SCALAR CHAIN PRINCIPLE
-​ have a clear line of
authority and
communication from
the top to bottom.

●​ Authority, Responsibility,
Accountability

AUTHORITY
-​ Formal & legitimate right of
a manager to make
decisions, issue orders &
allocate resources to
achieve organizationally
desired outcomes
ORG STRUCTURE FUNDAMENTAL
CHARACTERISTICS RESPONSIBILITY
-​ Managers are assigned
●​ Work Specialization authority commensurate
-​ organizational tasks are with responsibility
subdivided into separate
jobs ACCOUNTABILITY
-​ dividing work into smaller -​ the people with authority &
segments among a group of responsibility are subject to
individuals reporting & justifying task
-​ primary objective is to outcomes to those above
distribute a significant task them in the chain of
among multiple people command
instead of assigning it to a
single individual
●​ Chain of command
-​ how each member of a
company or organization
reports to one another

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LINE & STAFF AUTHORITY
●​ Centralization & decentralization
LINE AUTHORITY
-​ people in management CENTRALIZED
positions have formal -​ degree to which
authority to direct & control decision making is
immediate subordinates concentrated at
upper levels in the
STAFF AUTHORITY organization
-​ narrower & includes the -​ which top managers
right to advise, recommend, make all the
& counsel decisions

●​ Span of management DECENTRALIZED


-​ No. of employees reporting -​ which decision
to a supervisor making is pushed
-​ determines how closely a down to the
supervisor can monitor managers who are
subordinates closest to the action.
-​ Decision-making
across various levels,
empowering teams
to act independently,
fostering flexibility,
innovation, quicker
responses to
local/specific needs

●​ Departmentalization
-​ grouping of jobs according
to some logical
arrangement
-​ refers to the formal
structure of the
organization, composed of

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various departments and TEAM APPROACH
managerial positions and
their relationships

FUNCTIONAL APPROACH

VIRTUAL NETWORK APPROACH

DIVISIONAL APPROACH

L5 - LEADING

Leadership
-​ Not only Influencing others but
also providing an environment for
HORIZONTAL MATRIX/ MATRIX APPROACH them to achieve team &
organizational objectives
-​ Is INFLUENCE

VISION + FOLLOWERSHIP + INFLUENCE


= LEADERSHIP

LEADER → has a vision, drive, &


commitment to achieve & skills to make it
happen

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MANAGERS VS. LEADERS CONSIDERATOION
-​ Affects subordinate’s job
satisfaction

FIEDLER’S CONTINGENCY THEORY


-​ In order to maximize group
performance the leaders must be
matched to the right leadership
style.

PATH GOAL THEORY


-​ Leaders can increase their
followers’ satisfaction &
performance by clarifying &
clearing the paths to goals & by
increasing the number & kinds of
rewards available for goal
attainment

DIRECTIVE
-​ U let people know precisely
what is expected of them

SUPPORTIVE
LEADERSHIP TRAITS -​ Being approachable
-​ Show concern & their
welfare
-​ Increases employee
confidence = job well done

PARTICIPATIVE
-​ Democratic
-​ Ask employees opinion &
input before making final
decision
-​ More committed
INITIATING STRUCTURE
-​ structures the roles of followers by ACHIEVEMENT ORIENTED
setting goals, giving directions, -​ Setting challenging goals
setting deadlines, and assigning -​ High expectation of
tasks employees
-​ Directly affects the subordinate’s
performance

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NORMATIVE DESISION THEORY

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
L6 - CONTROLLING

CHARISMATIC LEADER

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