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Week 1 Introduction To Management

The document provides an introduction to management and organizations, covering topics such as who managers are, what management involves, what managers do, what an organization is, and why study management. It discusses classifying managers, managerial functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, and roles and skills of managers. Key exhibits are also included.

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Week 1 Introduction To Management

The document provides an introduction to management and organizations, covering topics such as who managers are, what management involves, what managers do, what an organization is, and why study management. It discusses classifying managers, managerial functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, and roles and skills of managers. Key exhibits are also included.

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Introduction to Management

and Organizations
Lecturer: Rabia Muhammad Ali
MAN-2011
Principles of Management
Week 1

1–1
Learning Outcomes
Follow this Learning Outline as you read and study
this chapter.
1. Who Are Managers?
2. What Is Management?
3. What Do Managers Do?
4. What Is An Organization?
5. Why Study Management?

Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall


1–2
Who Are Managers?
• Manager
 Someone who coordinates and oversees the work
of other people so that organizational goals can be
accomplished.

1–3
Classifying Managers
• First-line Managers
Individuals who manage the work of non-managerial
employees.
• Middle Managers
Individuals who manage the work of first-line
managers.
• Top Managers
Individuals who are responsible for making
organization-wide decisions and establishing plans
and goals that affect the entire organization.

1–4
Exhibit 1–2 Managerial Levels

1–5
What Is
Management?
• Management involves coordinating and
overseeing the work activities of others so that
their activities are completed efficiently and
effectively.

1–6
What Is
• Managerial Concerns
Management?
Efficiency
 “Doing things right”
– Getting the most output
for the least inputs
Effectiveness
 “Doing the right things”
– Attaining organizational
goals

1–7
Exhibit 1–3 Effectiveness and Efficiency in
Management

1–8
What Managers Do?
• Three Approaches to Defining What Managers
Do.
Functions they perform.
Roles they play.
Skills they need.

1–9
What Managers Do?
• Functions Manager’s Perform
Planning
 Defininggoals, establishing strategies to achieve goals,
developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities.
Organizing
 Arranging and structuring work to accomplish organizational
goals.
Leading
 Working with and through people to accomplish goals.
Controlling
 Monitoring, comparing, and correcting work.

1–10
What Managers Do?
• Roles Manager’s Play
Roles are specific actions or behaviors expected of a
manager.
Mintzberg identified 10 roles grouped around
interpersonal relationships, the transfer of information,
and decision making.

1–11
Exhibit 1.5 Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles
• Interpersonal Roles
• Figurehead
• Leader
• Liaison
• Informational Roles
• Monitor
• Disseminator
• Spokesperson
• Decisional Roles
• Entrepreneur
• Disturbance handler
• Resource allocator
• Negotiator
Adapted from Mintzberg, Henry, The
Nature of Managerial Work, 1st Edition,
© 1980, pp. 93–94..

1–12
What Managers Do?
• Skills Managers Need
Technical skills
 Knowledge and proficiency in a specific field
Human skills
 The ability to work well with other people
Conceptual skills
 The ability to think and conceptualize about abstract and
complex situations concerning the organization

1–13
Exhibit 1–6 Skills Needed at Different
Management Levels

Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall


1–14
What Is An Organization?
• An Organization Defined
A deliberate arrangement of people to accomplish
some specific purpose (that individuals independently
could not accomplish alone).
• Common Characteristics of Organizations
Have a distinct purpose (goal)
Composed of people
Have a deliberate structure

1–15
Exhibit 1–10 Universal Need for Management

1–16
The End

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