This document provides an overview of management principles from a textbook. It defines management and what managers do, including planning, organizing, leading and controlling organizational resources and activities. It describes six core managerial competencies: communication, planning and administration, teamwork, strategic action, multicultural awareness, and self-management. It also outlines different management levels from top to first-line managers and their respective roles and skills.
Learning Objectives
 Define Managers And Management.
 Explain What Managers Do.
 Describe The Competencies Used In
Managerial Work And Assess Your Current
Competency Levels.
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Introductory Concepts: WhatAre
Managerial Competencies?
 Competency – a combination of knowledge,
skills, behaviors, and attitudes that contribute to
personal effectiveness
 Managerial Competencies – sets of knowledge,
skill, behaviors, and attitudes that a person
needs to be effective in a wide range of positions
and various types of organizations
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Why are ManagerialCompetencies
Important?
 You need to use your strengths to do your best
 You need to know your weaknesses
 You need developmental experiences at work to become
successful leaders and address your weakness
 You probably like to be challenged with new learning
opportunities
 Organizations do not want to waste human resources
 Globalization deregulation, restructuring, and new
competitors add to the complexity of running a business
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A Model ofManagerial
Competencies
(adapted from Figure 1.1)
Communication
Competency
Planning and
Teamwork
Administration
Competency
Competency
Global Strategic
Awareness Action
Competency Self-Management Competency
Competency
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A Model ofManagerial
Competencies
(adapted from Figure 1.1)
Communication
Competency
Planning and
Teamwork
Administration
Competency
Managerial Competency
Effectiveness
Global Strategic
Awareness Action
Competency Self-Management Competency
Competency
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What Is AnOrganization?
 A formal and coordinated group of people who
function to achieve particular goals
 These goals cannot be achieved by individuals
acting alone
 An organization has a structure, discussed in depth
in Chapter 11
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Characteristics of an
Organization
 An organization has a structure.
 An organization consists of a group of
people striving to reach goals that
individuals acting alone could not achieve.
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Management
Organization
Two or morepeople who work together in a structured
way to achieve a specific goal or set of goals.
Goals
Purpose that an organization strives to achieve;
organizations often have more than one goals, goals are
fundamental elements of organization.
The Role of Management
To guide the organizations towards goal
accomplishment
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- People responsiblefor
directing the efforts aimed
at helping organizations
achieve their goals.
- A person who plans,
organizes, directs and
controls the allocation of
human, material, financial,
and information resources
in pursuit of the
organization’s goals.
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Management
 Management refers to the tasks and activities
involved in directing an organization or one of
its units: planning, organizing, leading, and
controlling.
 The process of reaching organizational goals by
working with and through people and other
organizational resources.
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 Function: Aclassification referring to a group of
similar activities in an organization like marketing or
operations.
 Functional Managers: A manager responsible for
just one organizational activity such as accounting,
human resources, sales, finance, marketing, or
production
 Focus on technical areas of expertise
 Use communication, planning and
administration, teamwork and self-
management competencies to get work
done
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(cont’d)
 General Managers:responsible for the operations
of more complex units—for example, a company or
division
 Oversee work of functional managers
 Responsible for all the activities of the unit
 Need to acquire strategic and multicultural
competencies to guide organization
 Many Other types of managers
Planning involves tasks
thatmust be performed to
attain organizational goals,
outlining how the tasks
must be performed, and
indicating when they
should be performed.
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Planning
 Determining organizationalgoals and
means to reach them
 Managers plan for three reasons
1. Establish an overall direction for the
organization’s future
2. Identify and commit resources to achieving
goals
3. Decide which tasks must be done to reach
those goals
 Discussed in depth in Chapter 7 & 8
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Organizing means assigningthe planned tasks to
various individuals or groups within the
organization and cresting a mechanism to put plans
into action.
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Organizing
 Process ofdeciding where decisions will be made, who
will perform what jobs and tasks, and who will report
to whom in the company
 Includes creating departments and job descriptions
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Leading (Influencing) meansguiding the activities
of the organization members in appropriate
directions. Objective is to improve productivity.
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Leading
 Getting othersto perform the
necessary tasks by motivating them to
achieve the organization’s goals
 Crucial element in all functions
 Discussed throughout the book and in
depth in Chapter 15—Dynamics of
Leadership
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1. Gather informationthat measures recent performance
2. Compare present performance to pre-established standards
3. Determine modifications to meet pre-established standards
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Controlling
 Process bywhich a person, group,
or
organization consciously monitors
performance and takes corrective
action
 Discussed in depth in Chapter 10
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Basic Levels ofManagement
(adapted from Figure 1.3)
Top
Managers
Middle Managers
First-Line Managers
Nonmanagers
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Top Managers
 Responsiblefor providing the overall direction of an
organization
 Develop goals and strategies for entire organization
 Spend most of their time planning and leading
 Communicate with key stakeholders—stockholders,
unions, governmental agencies, etc., company
policies
 Use of multicultural and strategic action
competencies to lead firm is crucial
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Levels of Management
 First-line Managers: have direct responsibility for
producing goods or services Foreman, supervisors,
clerical supervisors
 Middle Managers:
 Coordinate employee activities
 Determine which goods or services to provide
 Decide how to market goods or services to customers
Assistant Manager, Manager (Section Head)
 Top Managers: provide the overall direction of an
organization Chief Executive Officer, President, Vice
President
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First-line Managers
 Directlyresponsible for production of goods or services
 Employees who report to first-line managers do the
organization’s work
 Spend little time with top managers in large organizations
 Technical expertise is important
 Rely on planning and administration, self-management,
teamwork, and communication competencies to get work
done
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Middle Managers
 Responsiblefor setting objectives that are consistent with
top management’s goals and translating them into specific
goals and plans for first-line managers to implement
 Responsible for coordinating activities of first-line
managers
 Establish target dates for products/services to be delivered
 Need to coordinate with others for resources
 Ability to develop others is important
 Rely on communication, teamwork, and planning and
administration competencies to achieve goals
Introductory Concepts: WhatAre
Managerial Competencies?
 Competency – a combination of knowledge,
skills, behaviors, and attitudes that contribute to
personal effectiveness
 Managerial Competencies – sets of knowledge,
skill, behaviors, and attitudes that a person
needs to be effective in a wide range of positions
and various types of organizations
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Six Core ManagerialCompetencies:
What It Takes to Be a Great Manager
 Communication Competency
 Planning and Administration Competency
 Teamwork Competency
 Strategic Action Competency
 Multicultural Competency
 Self-Management Competency
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Communication Competency
 Abilityto effectively transfer and exchange information
that leads to understanding between yourself and others
 Informal Communication
 Used to build social networks and good
interpersonal relations
 Formal Communication
 Used to announce major events/decisions/
activities and keep individuals up to date
 Negotiation
 Used to settle disputes, obtain resources,
and exercise influence
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 Deciding whattasks need to be done, determining
how they can be done, allocating resources to enable
them to be done, and then monitoring progress to
ensure that they are done
 Information gathering, analysis, and problem solving
from employees and customers
 Planning and organizing projects with agreed
upon completion dates
 Time management
 Budgeting and financial management
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 Accomplishing tasksthrough small groups of
people who are collectively responsible and
whose job requires coordination
 Designing teams properly involves having
people participate in setting goals
 Creating a supportive team environment gets
people committed to the team’s goals
 Managing team dynamics involves settling
conflicts, sharing team success, and assign tasks
that use team members’ strengths
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Strategic Action Competency
Understanding the overall mission and values of
the organization and ensuring that employees’
actions match with them
 Understanding how departments or divisions of
the organization are interrelated
 Taking key strategic actions to position the firm
for success, especially in relation to concern of
stakeholders
 Leapfrogging competitors
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Snapshot
“Sony must sell off businesses that don’t fit
its core strategy of fusing gadgets with films,
music, and game software. That means
selling off its businesses in its Sony Financial
Holdings, which are very profitable.”
Howard Stringer, CEO, Sony
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Multicultural Competency
 Understanding,appreciating and responding to
diverse political, cultural, and economic issues
across and within nations
 Cultural knowledge and understanding of the
events in at least a few other cultures
 Cultural openness and sensitivity to how others
think, act, and feel
 Respectful of social etiquette variations
 Accepting of language differences
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Self-Management Competency
 Developingyourself and taking responsibility
 Integrity and ethical conduct
 Personal drive and resilience
 Balancing work and life issues
 Self-awareness and personal development
activities
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Self-Management Competency
Snapshot
“My strengths and weaknesses haven’t
changed a lot in 51 years. The important
thing is to recognize the things you don’t do
well and build a team that reflects what you
know the company needs.”
Anne Mulcahy, CEO, Xerox
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Learning Framework forManaging
Part I: Overview of Management
Part II: Managing the Environment
Part III: Planning and Control
Part IV: Organizing
Part V; Leading