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a group of people with formally assigned roles who work together to achieve the groups' stated goals.
Organizations need not be just business firms, colleges, local governments, & nonprofits like Red Cross.
- are (or should be) goal-directed
- are (hopefully) organized
- have organizational structure
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| a person who plans, organizes, leads and controls the work of others so that the organization achieves its goals. |
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| the group of people- the managers- who are responsible for accomplishing an organization's goals through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the efforts of the organization's people; also the totality of managerial actions, people, systems, procedures, and processes in place in an organization. |
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| the manager's four basic fuctions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. |
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| Three aspects of managerial work |
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- responsible for contribution- a manager always has the responsibility of accomplishing the organization's goals.
- always get things done through other people (his employees).
- must be skilled at planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
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Planning
One of a managers four basic functions |
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| setting goals and deciding on courses of action, developing rules and procedures, developing plans (for both the organization and those who work in it), and forecasting (predicting or projecting what the future holds for the firm). |
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Organizing
One of a manager's four basic functions |
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| identifying jobs to be done, hiring people to do them, establishing departments, delegating or pushing authority down to subordinates, establishing a chain of command (in other words, channels of authority and communication), and coordinating the work of subordinates. |
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Leading
One of a manager's four basic functions |
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