Management Richard L. Daft - Chapters 1 & 2
1. Management: The attainment of organizational goals in an effective and
efficient manner through planning, leading, organizing and controlling
organizational resources.
2. Organization: A social entity that is goal directed and deliberately structured.
3. Effective: The degree to which the organization achieves a stated goal.
4. Efficient: The amount of resources used to produces a desired volume of
output. 5. Planning: The management function concerned with defining goals
for future performance and how to attain them.
6. Organizing: The deployment of organizational resources to achieve strategic
goals.
7. Leading: Using influence to motivate employees to achieve the organizations
goals.
8. Controling: Is concerned with monitoring employees activities, keeping the
organization on track toward meeting its goals and making corrections as
necessary.
9. Performance: The stage of development in which team members focus on
problem solving and accomplishing the teams assigned tasks.
10. Organizational Hierarchy: Organizational structure where every entity in the
organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity
11. Project Mananger: A manager who is responsible for a specific work project
that involves people from various functions and levels of the organization.
12. Functional Management: A management structure in which a manager is
responsible for a department that performs a single functional task.
13. General Management: A management structure in which a manager is
responsible for several departments that perform different functions.
14. Line Management: Manufacture and Market products - Work directly with the
product.
15. Staff Management: Support the line management.
16. Disseminator: Communicate potentially useful information to your colleagues
and your team.
17. Spokesperson: A person who speaks for another or for a group - The face of
the company.
18. Social Forces: Aspects of society that guide and influence relationships
amount people such as their values, needs and standards of behaviors.
19. Political Forces: Relates to the influence of political and legal institutions on
people and organizations.
20. Economic Forces: Affects the availability, production, and distribution of a
society's resources.
1. Management: The attainment of organizational goals in an effective and
efficient manner through planning, leading, organizing and controlling
organizational resources.
2. Organization: A social entity that is goal directed and deliberately structured.
3. Effective: The degree to which the organization achieves a stated goal.
4. Efficient: The amount of resources used to produces a desired volume of
output. 5. Planning: The management function concerned with defining goals
for future performance and how to attain them.
6. Organizing: The deployment of organizational resources to achieve strategic
goals.
7. Leading: Using influence to motivate employees to achieve the organizations
goals.
8. Controling: Is concerned with monitoring employees activities, keeping the
organization on track toward meeting its goals and making corrections as
necessary.
9. Performance: The stage of development in which team members focus on
problem solving and accomplishing the teams assigned tasks.
10. Organizational Hierarchy: Organizational structure where every entity in the
organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity
11. Project Mananger: A manager who is responsible for a specific work project
that involves people from various functions and levels of the organization.
12. Functional Management: A management structure in which a manager is
responsible for a department that performs a single functional task.
13. General Management: A management structure in which a manager is
responsible for several departments that perform different functions.
14. Line Management: Manufacture and Market products - Work directly with the
product.
15. Staff Management: Support the line management.
16. Disseminator: Communicate potentially useful information to your colleagues
and your team.
17. Spokesperson: A person who speaks for another or for a group - The face of
the company.
18. Social Forces: Aspects of society that guide and influence relationships
amount people such as their values, needs and standards of behaviors.
19. Political Forces: Relates to the influence of political and legal institutions on
people and organizations.
20. Economic Forces: Affects the availability, production, and distribution of a
society's resources.
