Managing and the manager’s job

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What Is an Organization?
• A group of people working together in a
structured and coordinated fashion to
achieve a set of goals.
• In order to understand management
observe the following slide Table 1.1,
which is a resource-based perspective,
it will provide a view of the four basic
kinds of resources required in an
organization:

How Do Managers Combine and Coordinate
the Various Kinds of Resources?
• The following slide Figure 1.1 illustrates
how managers combine and coordinate
the various kinds of resources:

Figure 1.1: Management in Organizations

What Is Management?
• A set of activities
(including planning and
decision making,
organizing, leading, and
controlling) directed at
an organization’s
resources (human,
financial, physical, and
informational) with the
aim of achieving
organizational goals in
an efficient and
effective manner.

Who Is the Manager?
1. College Dean?
2. Police officer?
3. Surgeon?
4. Web-designer?
5. Football coach?
6. Chef?
7. Managing your checking account?

The Manager’s Job Is To:
PLAN:
– A manager cannot operate effectively
unless he or she has long range plans.
A plan for each day’s work:
– What is to be done, and why do it?
– When is it to be done, and how will it be
done?
– Who is to do the job?
– Where should it be done?

The Manager Must Organize
• When there is more than one employee
needed to carry out a plan.
• Then organization is needed.
• A team must be formed.
• Each job must be carefully defined in
terms of what is to be done.
• Establish delegation of responsibility.

The Three Informational Roles
• Monitor
• Disseminator
• Spokesperson

The Manager Must Control
Control means?
• A method of
checking up to find
what has been done
and what must be
done.
• A manager must
know how well
employees are
performing.

The Management Process
Planning and Decision
Making
– Setting the organization’s
goals and deciding how
best to achieve them.
Organizing
– Determining how best to
group activities and
resources.
Leading
– Motivating members of the
organization
Controlling
– Monitoring and correcting
activities

The Management Process
• The manager’s primary responsibility is
to carry out the management process.
• Figure 1.2 will illustrate the basic
definitions and interrelationships of the
basic managerial functions:

Figure 1.2: The Managerial Process

Kinds of Managers
Managing at Different
Levels of the
organization:
Top Managers
• Small group of executives
who manage the overall
organization, the strategic
level.
Middle Managers
• A large group that implement
the strategies developed at
the top.

Kinds of Managers
First-Line Managers
– Supervise and
coordinate the
activities of operating
employees.

Figure 1.3: Kinds of Managers by
Level and Area

Managing in Different
Areas of the Organization
• Marketing Managers
• Financial Managers
• Operations
Managers
• Human Resource
Managers
• Administrative
Managers
• Specialized
Management

Basic Managerial Roles and Skills
Regardless of level or
area within an
organization, all
managers must play
certain roles and
exhibit certain skills in
order to be successful,
such as:
– Do certain things.
– Meet certain needs.
– Have certain
responsibilities.

The Three Interpersonal Roles
• Figurehead
• Leader
• Liaison, Coordinator

The Four DECISIONAL ROLES
• Entrepreneur
• Disturbance Handler
• Resource Allocator
• Negotiator

Managerial Skills
• In addition to fulfilling
roles, managers also
need a number of
specific skills.
• The most fundamental
management skills are:
– Technical
– Interpersonal
– Conceptual
– Diagnostic
– Communication
– Decision-making
– Time-management

Technical Skills
• Necessary to
accomplish or
understand the
specific kind of work
being done.
• These skills are
especially important
for first line
managers.

Interpersonal Skills
• The ability to
communicate with,
understand, and
motivate both
individuals and groups.
• Be able to get along
with:
– Subordinates
– Peers
– Those at higher levels

Conceptual Skills
• A manager’s ability to
think in the abstract.
• The mental capacity to:
– Understand organizational
goals and its environment.
– How the organization is
structured.
– Viewing the organization
as system.

Diagnostic Skills
• Skills that enable a
manager to visualize
the most appropriate
response to a
situation.

Communication Skills
• A manager’s
abilities both to
effectively convey
ideas and
information to others
and to effectively
receive ideas and
information from
others.

Decision-Making Skills
• A manager’s ability
to correctly
recognize and
define problems and
opportunities and to
then select an
appropriate course
of action to solve
problems and
capitalize on
opportunities.

Time-Management Skills
• The manager’s
ability to prioritize
work, to work
efficiently, and to
delegate
appropriately.

Becoming a Manager
• How does one acquire the skills
necessary to blend the science and art
of management to become successful
manager?
• Observe the next slide Figure 1.4, it will
become clear how this generally
happens:

Figure 1.4: Sources of
Management Skills

The Nature of Management
The manager’s job is
fraught with:
– Uncertainty
– Change
– Interruption
– Fragmented activities

A Manager Must be a Leader of Employees
• It means overseeing the
team by influencing the
employees to get the
job done.
• Motivating employees.
• Creating an
environment that makes
employees work
efficiently.
• Managers get
employees to put forth
their best effort.

You Have Been Assigned As
Manager of Your Group
• The manager whose place you are
taking is being left on the job for a
period to train you, but he is not training
you.
• You find the previous manager has
been running a one person show.
• The morale of the employees really
could be better.
• What are you going to do?

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