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Management - ✔✔- the organization and coordination of the activities of a business in
order to achieve organizational goals
Managers Skills - ✔✔Conceptual Skills, Technical Skills, Human Skills
Conceptual Skills - ✔✔the ability to think analytically and understand complicated or
abstract ideas, birds eye, most often needed by top managers
Technical Skills - ✔✔Specific knowledge needed to perform a specialized skill
Human Skills - ✔✔-interpersonal skills working with people "soft skills"
Managers Roles- Mintzberg - ✔✔Interpersonal, Informational, Decisional
Interpersonal - ✔✔being a leader, a figurehead, or a link between internal and external
constituents. Liaison. "More like your Persona"
Informational - ✔✔monitoring teams and people, communicate information and acting
as a spokesperson "What you're giving to other people"
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,Decisional - ✔✔use of provided information. Managers might be change-makers,
problem-fixers, negotiators, and resource allocators.
Early Classical Viewpoint - ✔✔Work was primarily labor-intensive Workers had very
few rights
Working conditions were less than ideal
Efficiency was NOT a concern for administrators
Efficiency - ✔✔the ability to accomplish a task utilizing available resources in the best
way possible
P.O.L.C. Theory - ✔✔Henri Fayol, Administrative Science, PLANNING, ORGANZING,
LEADING, CONTROLLING
Bureaucracy - ✔✔Max Weber, associating them with organizations was that they
require structure, order, and process to be efficient.
Scientific Management Theory - ✔✔Frederick Taylor, - the study of work methods to
improve productivity and efficiency. Understanding each part of task, selecting the
right workers, providing adequate training, maximize output
Time and Motion Studies - ✔✔Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, Made major contributions to
worker productivity and efficiency by looking at time and motion studies
Used their Children as testing guinea pigs
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,Filmed them doing chores
Behavioral View Point - ✔✔Hugo Munstenberg/ Mary Parker Follet, he introduced
idea of vocational, or industrial psychology. She brough sociology into mix, like
teamwork and groups across different work units.
Hawthorn Effect - ✔✔Elton Mayo, failed study, people acted different when they knew
they were being observed, employees are social beings who seek attention from their
superiors.
Human Relations Movement - ✔✔A Maslow - Hierarchy of needs, (from low to high)
Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, Esteem, Self Actualization
Douglas McGregor- Theory X, Theory Y
Physiological (lowest) - ✔✔Breathing, Food, Water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion
Safety (2nd lowest) - ✔✔security of: Body, Employment, Resources, Morality, Family,
Health, Property
Love/Belonging (3rd lowest) - ✔✔friendship, family, sexual intimacy
Esteem (2nd highest) - ✔✔self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others,
respect by others
Self actualization(highest) - ✔✔Morality, Creativity, Spontaneity, Problem-Solving,
Lack of Prejudice, acceptance of facts
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, Theory X - ✔✔Strict controls and incentives to perform. Monitors workers,
micromanage and create production cycles. Authoritative, command and control style.
Pessimistic and negative
Theory Y - ✔✔believes workers are creative and can manage their work without
someone watching them. Optimistic and positive
Systems Viewpoint - ✔✔Considers the organization as a set of interrelated parts
Ex. Mayo Clinic
Inputs, Processing, Output, Feedback
Inputs - ✔✔any resources that are put into a system to obtain a desired output
Materials, components, labor, research, development
Processing - ✔✔the transformation or use of resources to create some type of output
Production lines, assembly lines, management, skills
Output - ✔✔the finished product or service that comes out of the system
End product, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction
Feedback - ✔✔information or opinions about something that can be used to determine
the success or potential needed changes.
Information, new ideas, expertise, customer feedback
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