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Organization and Management

The document outlines the nature and concepts of management, defining it as a process of coordinating work activities to achieve organizational goals. It describes management as goal-oriented, universal, continuous, multi-disciplinary, intangible, situational, and both a science and an art, while detailing the functions, roles, and skills of a manager. Additionally, it highlights the importance of interpersonal, informational, and decisional roles, as well as essential managerial skills such as technical, human, and conceptual skills.

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Organization and Management

The document outlines the nature and concepts of management, defining it as a process of coordinating work activities to achieve organizational goals. It describes management as goal-oriented, universal, continuous, multi-disciplinary, intangible, situational, and both a science and an art, while detailing the functions, roles, and skills of a manager. Additionally, it highlights the importance of interpersonal, informational, and decisional roles, as well as essential managerial skills such as technical, human, and conceptual skills.

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Organization and Management

Nature and Concepts of Management


Definition of Management
-refers to the act or bring together the work activities to
achieve the organization’s goals and objectives. Basically, it
means teamwork.
-it is essentials in any organization, leader manage must
realize the important of people working harmoniously with the
aim of effectively reaching target goals of the company.
According to Peter Ducker, management is a multi-purpose
organ that manages business and manages managers and
manages workers and works.
According to Harold Koontz, management is an art of getting
things done through and with the people in formally organized
groups. It is an art of creating and environment in which can
Characteristics and Nature of Management
a. Management is goal oriented- management is not an end
in itself. It is means to achieve certain goals. Management
has no justification to exist without goals.
b. Management is universal- management is an essential
element of every organized activity irrespective of the size
or the hype of the activity.
c. Management is continuous process- the cycle of
management continues to operate as long as there is
organized action for the achievement of group goals.
d. Management is multi-disciplinary- management
techniques, principles and theories are drawn for other
discipline such as engineering, anthropology, sociology and
psychology
e. Management is intangible force- management is evidence
by the results of its effort through others. It can not be seen but
its presence can be felt in the form of results in very type of
organization.
f. Management is situational- there is no best way of doing
things. To solve a particular problems conditions and situations
must be taken in to account. Management provides direction
every activity of an organization.
g. Management is both a science and an art- scientific
knowledge is observed through the process of critical and
continuous observation and intelligent speculation.
Functions, Roles and Skills of a Manager
Management is a vital aspects of economic life of man, which
is an organized group activity. A central directing and
controlling agency are indispensable for a business concern.
The productive resources- material, labor, capital, etc. are
entrusted to the organizing skill, administrative ability and
enterprising initiative of the management.

What is manager?
-a manager achieves objectives through efficient and effective
use of resources.
5 Function of Management
PLANNING is future oriented and determines an organizations direction.
It is rational and systematic way of making decisions today that will affect
the future of company.
ORGANIZING requires a formal structure of authority and the direction
and flow of such authority through which works subdivisions are defined,
arranged and coordinated.
STAFFING is the function of hiring and retaining a suitable workforce for
the enterprise both managerial as well as non-managerial level.
DIRECTING concerned with leadership, communication, motivation, and
supervision so that the employees perform their activities in most efficient
manner possible.
CONTROLLING the function of control consists of those activities that are
undertaken to ensure that the events do not deviate from the pre-arranged
plans.
ROLES OF MANAGER
CATEGORY ROLES
INTERPERSONAL Figurehead
Leader
Liaison

INFORMATIONAL Monitor
Disseminator
Spokesperson

DECISIONAL Entrepreneur
Disturbance Handler
Resource Allocator
Negotiator
INTERPERSONAL CATEGORY
- Involves providing information and ideas.
FIGUREHEAD- as a manager, you have social, ceremonial and
legal responsibilities. Expected to be the source of inspiration.
LEADERSHIP- this is where you provide leadership for your
team, your department or perhaps your entire organization and
its where you manage the performance ad responsibilities of
everyone in the group.
LIAISON- managers must communicate with internal and
external contacts. You need to be able to network effectively on
behalf of your organization.
INFORMATIONAL CATEGORY
- Involves processing information.
MONITOR- in this role, you regularly seek out the information
related to your organization and industry looking for the
relevant changes in the environment.
DISSEMINATOR- this is where you communicate potentially
useful information to your colleagues and your team.
SPOKESPERSON- managers represent and speak for their
organization. In this role you’re responsible for transmitting
information about your organization and its goals to the people
outside it.
DECISIONAL CATEGORY
- Involves using of information.
ENTREPRENEUR- as a manager, you create and control change within
the organization. This means solving problems, generating new ideas
and implementing them.
DISTURBANCE HANDLER- when an organization or team hits an
unexpected roadblock, its manager who must take charge. You also
need to help mediate disputes within it.
RESOURCE ALLOCATOR- you’ll also need to determine where
organizational resources are bets applied. This involves allocating
funding, as well as assigning staff and other organizational resources.
NEGOTIATOR- you may be needed to take part in, and direct,
important negotiations with your team, department or organization.
Social psychologist Robert L. Katz in 1974, in his article, “SKILLS
OF AN EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATOR” in Harvard Business
through about the relationship of managerial skills and hierarchical
management levels. This result was a setting of three areas of
managerial skills and determination, for which level they are
characterized:
Inter-relationship skills- interact and communicate with other
people should possess communication skills such as listening and
effective speaking.
Technical skills- skills that give the manager the ability ad
knowledge to use a variety of techniques to achieve their objective.
Human skills- ability to relate to one another and refer to aspects
such as empathy, compassion and authenticity.
Conceptual skills- ability to think and conceptualize about abstract
and complex situations.
Directions: Before each statement write TRUE if the statement
in correct or FALSE if the statement is in incorrect.
1. Management is goal-oriented when they achieved specific
goals
2. Management is a continuous process to operate as long as
there is organized action for the achievement of group goals.
3. Management is universal that has an unessential element of
every organized activity.
4. Management is situational that there is the best way of
doing things and not to solve particular problems conditions
and situations.
5. Management is multi-disciplinary such as management
techniques, principles, and theories.
Directions: Choose the letter corresponding to the correct answer for
each of the questions provided below.
1. Management is an essential element of every organized activity
irrespective of the size or the type of the activity.
a. Management is universal c. Management is continuous process
b. Management is goal-oriented d. Management is multi-disciplinary
2. This is where you communicate potentially useful information to your
colleagues and your team.
c. Spokesperson c. Monitor
d. Disseminator d. Negotiator
3. In which the ability to think and conceptualize about abstract and
complex situations.
e. Inter-relationship skills c. Conceptual skills
f. Technical skills d. Human skills
4. Which of the following has three common characteristics
such as distinct purpose, composed of people and develops
some deliberate structure?
a. Management c. Organization
b. Organizing d. Directing
5. As manager, you create and control change within the
organization. This means solving problems, generating new
ideas, and implementing them.
c. Conceptual skills c. Human skills
d. Technical skills d. None of the above

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