Tuesday 24 July 2012

Chapter One - The Exceptional Manager

What is Management?

  • The pursuit of organizational goals efficiently and effectively by integrating the work of people through planning, organizing, leading and controlling the organization's resources.
  • To be efficient means to use resources ( people,money, raw materials and the like) wisely and cost-effectively.
  • To be effective means to achieve results, to make the right decisions, and successfully carry them out so that they achieve the organizational's goals.
The Functions of Management?



  • Planning : You set goals and decide how to achieve them
  • Organizing : You arrange task, people and other resources to accomplish the work
  • Leading : You motivate, direct and otherwise influence people to work hard to achieve the goals
  • Controlling : Monitoring performance and deciding whether or not it is good toward the goal and how to fix it
Levels of Management?

  •  Top Managers (CEO) - Making decisions for the long term goals for the company. 
  •  Middle Managers (Director, and General Managers) - Implementing policies Top Managers pass down.                                        
  •  First-line Managers (Supervisors, Co-Manager, Assistant Manager, Team lead) - Delegates daily tasks and short term task.
Areas of Management?
  • Functional Manager : Works over a specific area
  • General Manager : Works over a larger area
Types of Organizations?
  • For profit : Work toward making money ( Walmart and others mart)
  • Nonprofit : Work toward making no money (Hospitals, colleges)
  • Mutual benefit : Exists to provide benefit to itself and it's members only (political parties, labor unions)




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1 comment:

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