The topics discussed to date have centered around management in the workplace, including its importance and challenges. We will discuss the key points that captured our attention including what management is, how management differs from leadership and issues that managers encounter in the ever changing workforce.
Management in the Business World
In today’s business world, managers are dealing with changing work environments, a changing workforce, globalization, economic and political uncertainties, and changing technology. Due to the fact that we interact with organizations daily we have a vested interest in seeing that organizations are well managed. Additionally, throughout your career, regardless of the business, you will either
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Efficiency pertains to completing tasks in an optimal way, doing it the fastest or least expensive way, with the least amount of resources possible by utilizing certain time-saving strategies. Effectiveness is completing the right task, completing activities and achieving goals with optimal levels of input and output (Grimshaw, Thomas, MacLennan, Fraser, Ramsay, Vale & Wensing, 2004). We have debated which is superior, effectiveness or efficiency, and have concluded that it depends on the type of organization and established goals.
What Managers Do
All managers plan, organize, lead and control, however, how they do these activities and how often they do them may vary according to their level in the organization, whether the organization is profit or not-for-profit and the size of the organization. There is a variety of approaches to describing what managers do (Kotter, 2008). The textbook centers around three approaches: functions, roles and skills/competencies.
The function approach centers around managers performing four functions: planning, organizing, leading and controlling (POLC). Managers make decisions on a daily basis, which rely on using the four functions (CITE TEXTBOOK). While all functions of POLC are important, planning is essential as illustrated by the statement “failing to plan is planning to fail”. Our cohort discussed this statement in a forum
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is introduced as a powerful and authoritative character, but yet mentally unstable. After receiving a letter from Macbeth about the witches prophecy, she instantly arranges Duncan’s murder. However Lady Macbeth has symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. For example, during the assassination of King Duncan, she shows her mental instability by being unable to kill Duncan due to his resemblance to her father. Following this event, Lady Macbeth’s supposedly dominant mental state gets worse as she continues to hallucinate and sleepwalk; thus leading to her mental downfall.
While a curse does involve the use of negative energy, a hex involves energy that can be either positive or negative. A hex plain and simply is a manipulation and is neutral in origin. What separates this from other magick is that with most magicks we are sending out our intent and giving it energy, hoping the universe or deity we have called upon will move things in our favor. This is tricky but likely will not affect our free will. We still have to make changes on a non magickal level, for instance, a prosperity spell. This type of spell might attract money to us but if the reason we are broke is due to an overspending habit we need to work on counteracting this habit or else we will spend all the money the magick attracted and end up in
Management makes remarkable differences between the companies regarding their performance in term of productivity , products, sales, profitability, service to the customer, employee welfare etc. Management plays a vital role in deciding the destiny of business as well as non-business organisations.
The world of business has undergone radical and dramatic changes in the last decade changes that present extraordinary challenges for the contemporary manager. A manager is an organizational member who is responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the activities of the organization so that the goals can be achieved. According to a widely referenced study by Henry Mintzberg, managers serve three primary roles: interpersonal, informational, and decision-making. Management is process of administrating and coordinating resources effectively and efficiently in an effort to achieve the goals of the organization.
This article and its main points directly relate to discussions in class and assigned reading about managers. As we learn about what managers do in the text, the examples given in the article give good insight and problem solving scenarios to work out. We can also see how change is good and can be controlled in shaping and helping to direct the focus that is desired for an organization.
3M is a very interesting company, regarded by Fortune magazine for its ability to grow leaders within the organization. They do this through an organizational program that focuses on 6 specific leading attributes that it wants every employee, and more importantly leader, to have.
According to Bateman & Snell (2009), Management is a world of action. It is a world that requires timely and appropriate action. It is a world not for the passive but for those who commit to positive accomplishments. Management requires the organization and coordination of the activities related to the running of an organization based on established policies. Historically, organizing involved creating an organization chart by identifying business functions, establishing reporting relationships, and having a personnel department that administered plans, programs, and paperwork. Now and in the future, effective managers will be using new forms of organizing and viewing their people as perhaps their most
Management is one of the most important human activities and has critical impact on life, growth, development or destruction of an organisation. In an organisation, managers with any rank or status should understand their basic duties i.e. maintaining a sustainable conductive environment where people can fulfil their commitments and objectives through collaborative approach. (Akhtar, 2011) A manager is responsible to achieve the business’s goals, visions and objectives by planning, organising, leading and controlling. Dubrin (1994) stated that in every organisation each member of staff must plan, organise, make decisions, and control the resources they need to accomplish the results expected
The four functions of a manager are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. These are key elements that managers must understand to run a successful organization. I will view each concept as well as their roles to acknowledge how these functions have been related to my personal experience in the work environment. Behind the scenes of a manager, they spend an equal amount of time planning so that he or she can successfully achieve the leading and controlling functions. These functions are standard for any industry that is striving to maintain a strong organization. While reviewing this paper, try to think of the four functions as a method that is established to build on each other. The four functions must be performed efficiently, and when done correctly, an organization will reap the accomplishments from a well-defined plan. My own experiences of how the four functions operate illustrates that each role requires a manager to devote time and patience in order to ensure that the main principles are achieved.
The traditional views of a manager's functions are as an administrator working on short-term goals within the current systems and structures. The manager focuses upon making that which exists as efficient as possible. The four functions of management as planning, budgeting, organizing, and controlling resources and problem solving. These managerial activities, they assert, are most appropriate when organizations are basically stable and relatively predictable. On the other hand traditional view of a leader' functions are of one who takes a long-term, big picture, perspective and endeavors to initiate change for the improvement of the organization. When organizations need to adapt and change to new circumstances then leaders who challenge, motivate and inspire
“Managing is organizing: pulling things together and along in a general direction to bring about long-term organizational survival” (Watson, 1986, p.41). Proper management is required to ensure success to a business by bringing staff together on a common stand and getting the best out of them. The importance of management is to intensify the relationship between staff and getting them to work together as one. It is the management’s duty to make certain that staff are content with their job duties and ultimately deliver their best. Managers are responsible for planning, organizing, leading and controlling the business.
Over the past hundred years management has continuously been evolving. There have been a wide range of approaches in how to deal with management or better yet how to improve management functions in our ever changing environment. From as early as 1100 B.C managers have been struggling with the same issues and problems that manager's face today. Modern managers use many of the practices, principles, and techniques developed from earlier concepts and experiences.
One of the most important aspects of a successful organization is dependent on an effective management system. There are so many different kinds of methods for management that apply to different organizations in order for them to advance and expand. As a manager, they must be responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company, meaning they have to have a flexible time schedule and maintain high credibility. One sees their own manager as the role model of the work place, so in all reality a manager has a lot to live up to.
Management is the process of managing a business through people by using the role of the Directorate. There are four managements’ functions including planning, organising, leading and controlling. Every organisation has its employers who can determine the success and failure of their business. Over the last few decades, it has been a growing competition among institutions from all over the globe. Therefore, there have been some of the ways, which have altered organisations and jobs. These ways are the increasing number of technology, globalisation of organisations and workforce expectations.
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