Nature and Concept of Managemet

Its involves determining the organization’s goals or performance objectives, defining strategic actions that must be done to accomplish them, and developing coordination and integration activities.

• Planning

• Organizing

• Staffing

• Leading

In 19th-century he has writings concerned with managerial activities, which he based on his experience as a managing director in a big mining company.

• Henri Fayol

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Joseph M. Juran

• Hugo Munsterberg

It involves planned removal of positions or jobs.

• Downsizing

• Customer Relations Management (CRM)

• Just-In-Time (JIT)

• Rightsizing

Entails influencing or motivating subordinates to do their best so that they would be able to help the organization’s endeavor to attain their set goals.

• Staffing

• Organizing

• Planning

• Leading

These are commonly used in situations where initiators face a lack of information for the change and other participants have the power to resist the same.

• Facilitation and support

• Manipulation and co-optation

• Education and communication

• Controlling

He is known as the father of scientific management.

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Henri Fayol

• Max Weber

• Edwards Deming

This theory concentrates on the manager’s functions and what makes up good management practice or implementation.

• Total Quality Management (TQM) Theory

• Organizational Behavior (OB) Approach

• General Administrative Theory

• Scientific Management Theory

the general or strategic managers who focus on long-term organizational concerns and emphasize the organization’s stability, development, progress, and overall efficiency and effectiveness.

• Middle-level managers

• Top-level managers

• Frontline or lower-level managers

Skills that enable managers to think of possible solutions to complex problems

• Human skills

• Conceptual skills

• Technical skills

The __________________ approach involves the study of the conduct, demeanor, or action of people at work.

• Total Quality Management (TQM) Theory

• Organizational Behavior (OB) Approach

• General Administrative Theory

• Scientific Management Theory