Lec 01 Flashcards

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What is Management?

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Management is the planning, organizing, and controlling of resources to achieve organizational goals effectively and efficiently.

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What are resources

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assets such as people machinery, raw materials, information, skills and capital

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Organizational goal?

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Is a desired future outcome that an organization strives to achieve

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What are managers?

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Managers are people responsible for supervising the use of an organization’s resources to achieve its goals

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Tasks of a manager?

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  1. Planning
  2. Organizing
  3. Leading
  4. Controlling
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How is an organization described?

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A set of people coordinating their activity in pursuit of goals

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Organizational Performance?

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Principles of scientific Management to increase work efficiency?

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  1. Study the way workers perform their tasks
  2. Codify the new methods
  3. Carefully select workers
  4. Establish a fair or acceptable level of performance for a task
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The congruence Model: Nadler and Tushman

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Congruence?

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The degree to which the needs, demands, goals, objectives, and or structures of one component are consistent with those of the other

The grater the congruence between components the more effective the organization will be

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