Chapter Outline
Outline
• An Introduction to Management
– Kinds of Managers
– Basic Management Functions
– Fundamental Management Skills
• The Evolution of Management
– Classical Management Perspective
• Scientific Management & Administrative Theory
– The Behavioral Management Perspective
• Human Relations and Human Resources Management
– The Quantitative Management Perspective
• Contemporary Management Thought
– The Systems Perspective
– The Contingency Perspective
– Contemporary Management Challenges and Opportunities
Efficiency: Effectiveness:
Operating in Doing the right
Successful
such a way things in the
Management
that resources right way at
are not wasted the right times
Source: Adapted from Van Fleet, David D., Contemporary Management, Second Edition.
Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Used with permission.
Planning
and decision Organizing
making
Inputs from the environment
• Human resources Goals attained
• Financial resources • Efficiently
• Physical resources • Effectively
• Information resources
Controlling Leading
• Organizing
– Defining tasks and duties
– Grouping positions into effective structures (departments)
– Clarifying authority, responsibility, and reporting relationships
– Allocating scarce resources (financial, human, physical)
– Staffing positions with qualified personnel
• Controlling
– Clear standards
– Monitoring progress and results
– Knowing when and how to intervene
– Correcting deviations successfully
Interpersonal Skills
Conceptual Skills
Fundamental
Fundamental
Management
Management Diagnostic Skills
Skills
Skills
Communication Skills
Decision-Making Skills
Time-Management Skills
• In one day…
– Processed 36 memos, letters and notes
– Attended 8 meetings
– Got 11 phone calls
– Met with some very unhappy customers
– Refereed two internal managerial disputes
– Spent an average of 9 minutes on each task during the day
Key
KeyManagement
Management
Roles
Roles
Interpersonal
Interpersonal Informational
Informational Decisional
Decisional
Roles
Roles Roles
Roles Roles
Roles
1.1. Figurehead
Figurehead 1.1. Monitor
Monitor 1.1. Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
2.2. Leader
Leader 2.2. Disseminator
Disseminator (Innovator)
(Innovator)
3.3. Liaison
Liaison 3.3. Spokesperson
Spokesperson 2.2. Disturbance
Disturbance
handler
handler
3.3. Resource
Resource
Allocator
Allocator
4.4. Negotiator
Negotiator
• Survey research
– Interviews
– Questionnaires
• Experimentation
– Laboratory
– Field
– Natural
• NEGATIVES
– Selective observation and limited recall
– Researcher bias toward the dramatic
– Data not easily quantified or recorded
– Generalizations are difficult (impossible) to make
– Time consuming…when do you stop observing/gathering info?
• NEGATIVES
– Objectivity of responses?
– Issue of non-responses
– Identifies symptoms, not cause-effect links
– Requires much expertise and time
• NEGATIVES
– Difficult to control all the variables (precision)
– Timing of observations and measurements
– Impact of the experiment on work productivity
– Subject bias and loss
– Generalizability to other organizations
D Greeks
C Babylonians G Venetians
B Egyptians E Romans
A Sumerians F Chinese
3000 B.C. 2500 B.C. 2000 B.C. 1500 B.C. 1000 B.C. 500 B.C. A.D.500 A.D.1000 A.D.1500
A Used written rules and regulations for governance E Used organized structure for communication and control
B Used management practices to construct pyramids F Used extensive organization structure for government
agencies and the arts
C Used extensive set of laws and policies for governance
G Used organization design and planning concepts to
D Used different governing systems for cities and state control the seas
• Contributions
– Time Study
– Standards for Work
– Job Specialization
– Managerial Planning and Control
– Worker Selection and Training
– Incentives
• Principles of Management
– Division of Labor (specialization)
– Scalar Chain of Command (hierarchy of authority)
– Unity of Command (only one superior for each worker)
– Span of Control (number of subordinates supervised)
• Management Science
– Focuses on the development of representative
mathematical models to assist with decisions.
• Operations Management
– Practical application of management
science to efficiently manage the
production and distribution
of products and services.
• Quality Management
– Statistical improvement models
• Contributions
– Developed sophisticated quantitative techniques to assist in
decision making.
– Application of models has increased our awareness
and understanding of complex processes and situations.
– Has been useful in the planning and controlling processes.
• Limitations
– Quantitative management cannot fully explain or predict the
behavior of people in organizations.
– Mathematical sophistication may come at the expense of other
managerial skills.
– Quantitative models may require unrealistic or unfounded
assumptions, limiting their general applicability.
• Open system
– An organizational system that interacts with its environment.
• Closed system
– An organizational system that does not interact with its
environment.
• Subsystems
– A system within another system. Their importance is due to their
interdependence on each other within the organization.
Problem
Problemor
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Situation
Important
Important
Contingencies
Contingencies
Solution
Solutionor
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Solutionor
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Solutionor
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Action
ActionAA Action
ActionBB Action
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