1. Introducing Modern Management1
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2. Objectives
1. An understanding of the importance of management to society and individuals 2. An understanding of the role of management 3. An ability to define management in several different ways 4. An ability to list and define the basic functions of management 5. Working definitions of managerial effectiveness and managerial efficiency 6. An understanding of basic management skills and their relative importance to managers 7. An understanding of the universality of management 8. Knowledge of skills that help managers become successful 9. Insights concerning what management careers are and how they evolve
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3. Importance of Management
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4. Importance of Management
Managers influence all phases of modern organisations. Plant managers run manufacturing operations… producing clothes we wear, food we eat, automobiles we drive, etc. Sales managers provide markets the goods for selling, personell managers? They have a serious influence in the society for everyone.
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5. The Management Task
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6. Think - Tank What should a manager do?
Name 6 companies and their managers? What have they managed?
Who is the manager of this organisation?
Does it effect the company when its manager
changes?
Why?
Which company may not be effected?
Big/Small/ Large
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7. Management Skill The ability to work with people and
other organisational resources to
accomplish organisational goals.
- ability to work with people,
- ability to work with organisational resources
- accomplishing organisational goals.
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8. The Management Task
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9. The Management Task
Peter Drucker: Effective management is probably the main resource of developed countries and the most needed resource of developing ones. All societies need good managers. Good managers are important for the society, organisations, families, the person himself. They all may come from different backgounds.
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10. The Management Task
The Role of a Manager is to guide orgnisations toward goal accomplishment by using organizational resources to ensure that their organization achieve their purposes.
They do this by;
- Assigning activities organization members perform,
They encourage individual activity that will reach organizational goals and discourage those that may prevent the purposes.
So they must keep the goal in mind all the time.
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11. The Management Task
Management Defined: The process of reaching organisartional goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources. Management encompasses the following 3 main characteristics;
process/series of continuing related activities,
Involves and concentrates on reaching organisational goals,
Reaches the goals by working with and through people and other resources.
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12. The Management Task
Planning: Attaining goals. Through their plans, managers outline exactly what organization must do to be successful. Involves choosing tasks and outlining how the tasks must be performed and indicating when they should be performed.
Organizing: Creates a mechanism to put plans in to action. People within the organization are given work assignments that contributes to the company’s goals.
(involves determining of tasks and grouping of work)
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13. The Management Task
Influencing: Motivating and leading. Guiding the activities of organizational members in appropriate directions. It aims to increase productivity.
Controlling: Gather information that measures recent performance. Compare present performance with previous ones and finds what should be modified.
4 of these functions can not be separeted.
Performance of one depends on other.
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14. How can we establish a milk factory and make it progress?
Produce
Market
Sell
Stock
Etc…..Think of the management functions.
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15. The Management Process = Manegement Functions
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