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Definition of Terms in Engineering Management

Engineering management involves planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling work activities to efficiently achieve goals using resources. It deals with utilizing manpower, money, machines, materials, and time. The five basic management functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Engineering management is both an art that uses people's skills and a science that uses systems and procedures. Good planning has specific goals, facilitates action, involves communication, focuses on targets, operates efficiently, and allows for control. Plans should be reviewed and revised regularly to account for changes.

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Definition of Terms in Engineering Management

Engineering management involves planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling work activities to efficiently achieve goals using resources. It deals with utilizing manpower, money, machines, materials, and time. The five basic management functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Engineering management is both an art that uses people's skills and a science that uses systems and procedures. Good planning has specific goals, facilitates action, involves communication, focuses on targets, operates efficiently, and allows for control. Plans should be reviewed and revised regularly to account for changes.

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Definition of Terms in Engineering Management

Engineering Management is an art and science of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling
work activities to attain and achieve common goals and objectives. It principally deals with the efficient
and effective use of the five human resources namely: manpower, money, machines, materials, and
time as well as the proper, efficient and effective utilization of these resources with minimal cost and
short period of time. If the cost is more and the time is long in doing work activities, it is not Engineering
Management but rather Mismanagement.

Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling are the five basic management functions.

1. Planning is deciding in advance what to do and how the work will be done. Organizing is the
grouping of work activities necessary to attain goals and objectives. Staffing is the supplying of
personnel with appropriate qualifications and eligibility in an organization.
2. Directing is commanding and telling people what to do and how it should be
3. Controlling is comparing work accomplishments with planned target and making corrective
action if the accomplishments differ from the plan.

a. Manpower, money, materials, and machines are termed the four M's of Engineering
Management.

Engineering Management is an art because it utilizes the techniques and skills of people in doing work
activities. It is also a science because it deals with systems and specific standard procedures in doing
work activities.

Characteristics of Planning

There are three characteristics of planning, namely:

1. Planning involves the future.


2. Planning requires action.
3. There must be a personal or organizational identification.

Specific Tasks of Planning

There are also four specific tasks of planning:

1. Defining goals and establishing their priorities.


2. Stating and implementing policies which direct work activities to planned targets.
3. Forecasting future events which can affect accomplishment of work.
4. Making the plans operational through detailed work activities and bud getting.

Importance of Planning
There are four objectives in Planning:

1. To offset uncertainty and change. Planning allows the organization to determine the constraints,
specify the planned target, select the number of options, monitor and control the
implementation so as to allow re-planning if necessary.
2. To focus attention to planned targets. Planning unifies the work activities of the different
personnel of the organization to act as one party.
3. To gain economical and efficient operation. Planning minimizes costs. Its emphasis is on efficient
and effective operations and consistency of procedures and methods.
4. To facilitate control. Managers cannot always check on the accomplishments or failures of their
subordinates. It is important to have planned targets against which to measure the performance
of people or units.

Guidelines for Good Planning

1. A plan should have specific planned targets. It should be clear about what it intends to
accomplish. It is important that much attention be devoted in defining the results of the plan.
The planned targets should be clearly understood by all concerned in their implementation.
2. A good plan should facilitate action. A plan without action remains a piece of paper, a figment of
the imagination or a statement of aspiration potentially alive but inactive and dormant. Good
plans lead to good actions.
3. If many people are involved in planning, coordination and communication are very important.
There is a need for constant communication and revision to arrive at realistic results.
4. Planning is the first function of engineering management and is involved in all the other four
functions of organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Revisions along the way is required.

5. Good plans are plans that can be constantly improved, redrafted, and replanned. Improvement,
redrafting, and replanning recognize the real ity that many of the basic assumptions upon which
a plan is based may change as environment factors or resources also change. For instance, if a
plan for five years is completed, reviews must be conducted every year to revise the plan
accordingly without changing the basic planned targets or end results desired. What may change
are the strategies and programs of achieving the planned targets.

6. Planning may be delegated to a formal planning staff or group within the company. Or it may be
a full-time job of the Planning Officer. Or it may be contracted to an outsid consultant.

7. All plans are tentative and interim. They are never final. Good plans should be flexible, not rigid.

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