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Monday, May 5, 2008

WHAT IS MANAGEMENT



Management is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people.

  • Contrast efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Explain why efficiency and effectiveness are important to management.
    What Do Managers Do?
    Describe the four functions of management.
    Explain Mintzberg’s managerial roles.
    Describe Katz’s three essential managerial skills and how the importance of these skills changes depending on managerial level.
    Discuss the changes that are impacting managers’ jobs.
    Explain why customer service and innovation are important to the manager’s job. What Is An Organization?
  • Describe the characteristics of an organization.
    Explain how the concept of an organization is changing.
    Why Study Management?
    Explain the universality of management concept.
    Discuss why an understanding of management is important even if you don’t plan to be a manager.
    Describe the rewards and challenges of being a manager.
    Manager
    ØSomeone who works with and through other people by coordinating and integrating their work activities in order to accomplish organizational goals.
  • First-line Managers
    ØAre at the lowest level of management and manage the work of non-managerial employees.
    Middle Managers
    ØManage the work of first-line managers.
    Top Managers
    ØAre responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishingplans and goals that affect the entire organization.

MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS

CONCEPT OF MANAGEMENT.

One of the most important human activities is management. Ever since people began farming groups to accomplish ail that they could not achieve as individuals.

Management has been essential to ensure the co-ordination of individual’s efforts.

KOONTZ

“The process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals working in groups accomplish efficiently selecting aims “

BOVEES

“ The process of attaining organizational goals by efficiently and effectively Planning , Leading, Organizing and Controlling the organizations human, physical, financial and informational sources

S.P. ROBBINS

“The process of coordinating work activities so that the are completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people “

EXPLANATION

Here effective and efficient words stands for relation between inputs and outputs .

When an organization output handsome and according to standard with maximum profit and minimum cost we can say that management is efficient

When the goals and attainment set by management are achieved fully or mostly then we can say that the management is effective

PARTICIPATION OF BOTH

For the success of any organization a compulsory that management should be effective and efficient

  • if management is effective and not efficient the organization can not achieve the goals
  • if the management is efficient but not effective the organization can not achieve the goals
  • Organization must be efficient and effective . then organization can achieve the goals

FUNCTION OF MANAGEMENT

1 ) PLANNING

2)ORGANIZING

3) LEADING

4CONTROLLING

PLANNING

It involves the process of defining goals, establishing strategic for achieving those goals and developing plans to integrate and coordinates activities

FOCUS OF PLANNING

The focus of planning is on future. It is the management responsibilities to prepare the organization for unseen days ahead. The essence of planning function is that planning and plans involve future and action to be taken place.

ELEMENTS OF PLANNING

  1. OBJECTIVE

2) ACTION

3)RESOURCES

4) IMPLEMENTATION

Objective are the integral part of the planning because the can specify future conditions. Which should e specified?

ORGANIZING

“Management function that involves the process of determining what task should be done, who is to do them ,how is to be task grouped, who report to whom, and where decision are made.”

ORGANIZING STRUCTURE

Organization structure can vary widely depending upon the decision of management regarding decision of tasks departmentalization and delegating authority.

DIVISION OF TASK

The most important consideration in dividing tasks is specialization of labor, where labors is specifies his gain which can be derived and calculated purely in economic term.

As the job is dividing into increasing and at some point cast of labour and capital is out weight. But after some time p.u cast will go up because more people and capital is engaged in process

LEADING

“Management function that involves the process of motivating subordinates influencing individuals or communication channels. Or dealing in any way with employee behavior issue”

LEADERSHIP DEMENSION

  1. SUPPORT

2) INTERACTION FACITITIES

3) GOAL EMPHASIS

4) WORK FACILITATION

SUPPORT

Leader behavior should be in such a way that subordinates have believed that have a personal worth and importance leader should inquire about their personal well-being and make sure that they will receive all the benefits.

INTERACTION FACILITIES

Leader behavior should be in such a way that encourages the followers or subordinates to develop, close and mutually satisfying relations with each other.

GOAL EMPHASIS

Stimulates enthusiasm among the followers for achieving excellent performance is known as goal emphasis.

WORK FACILITIES

It is the duty of the leader to direct and clarify the work of each follower. Regarding his/her work provides all planning sources task, scheduling

So that follower felt facility to work.

CONTROLLING

: Management function that involves monitoring actual performance compares actual standard and taking action if necessary”

 

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