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| a group of people working together in a stuctured and coordinated fashion to achieve a set of goals |
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| set of activities (decision-making/planning, controlling, leading, organizing) directed at using resources to achieve organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner |
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| using resources wisely and cost-effectively |
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| making and implementing good decisions |
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| small group of senior executives who manage the overall organization |
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| larger set of managers, responsible for implementing policies and plans developed by top mgrs and for supervising and coordinating activities of lower-level mgrs |
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| supervise and coordinate activities of operating employees |
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| assist with marketing function to new product development |
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| deal with Financial resources, such as accounting, cash mgmt, and investments |
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| involves creating and managing systems that create organizations products and services. production control and inventory control etc. |
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| hiring and developing employees |
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| not associated with any particular specialty, tend to be generalists. have a basic familiarity with all functional areas |
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| setting an organizations goals and deciding how best to achieve them |
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| selecting a course of action from a set of alternatives |
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| determining how organizational activities and resources are to be grouped |
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| set of processes used to get members of the organization to work together to further interests of organization |
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| monitoring progress toward goal attainment |
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| the skills necessary to accomplish or understand the specific kind of work being done |
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| the ability to communicate with, understand, and motivate others |
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| the ability to think in the abstract and to understand the overall workings of organization and its environment |
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| ability to visualize the most appropriate response to a situation |
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| ability to convey and receive ideas and info to others effectively |
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| ability to recognize and correctly define problems and opportunities and then to select and appropriate course of action |
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| ability to prioritize work, work efficiently and to delegate appropriately |
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| involves approaching issues and problems ain ways that are rational, logical, objective, and systematic |
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| involves making decisions and solving problems based on intuition, experience, instinct and personal insight |
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| a conceptual framework for organizing knowledge and providing a blueprint for action |
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| developments are also important to contemporary managers, because knowing how mistakes have happened in the past can lead to avoidance now |
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| concerned with improving the performance of individual workers |
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| first recognized importance of human resources and to express personal concern for his workers |
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| focused on efficiencies or production, and placed great faith in division of labor |
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| when a worker deliberately doesnt work as to maximum capacity by fredrick taylor |
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| developed faster brick laying techniques |
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| administrative management |
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| focuses on managing the total organization |
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| was the first to systemize practice of mgmt processes and first to identify the specific functions of planning leading controlling organizing and decision making |
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| known for his work on the synthesis and integration of the work of others |
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| his work on bureaucracy laid foundation for contemporary organizational theory |
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| behavioral management perspectives |
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| more emphasis on attitudes of individuals |
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| the father of industrial psychology because he applied psychology to industry |
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| recognized the human element in the work place |
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