Management Functions Flashcards
Shows the manager as a symbol, leader, and as a liaison.
Interpersonal Role
Presents the manager as a spokesperson or representative of the organization.
Informational Role
Makes him/her an entrepreneur, trouble-shooter, as negotiator, resource allocator.
Decisional Role
Proficiency in performing an activity
Technical skills
dealing with people
Human relationship skills
Ability to see individual matters as they relate to the total picture and to develop creative ways of identifying pertinent factors, responding to the big problems, and discarding irrelevant facts.
Conceptual skills
Refer to ideas, concepts, or principles that can be expressed and are accepted because they have logical proofs.
Knowledge factors
Skill, art, judgment, and wisdom.
Ability factors
Management function, concerned with defining goals for future organizational performance.
Planning
They are usually around 3-5 years, long-term in nature and are based on explicit assessments of the competitive strengths and weakness of the organization.
STRATEGIC PLANS
The main output of strategic planning.
Set the goals for the organization
Pertain to activities in specific departments of an organization.
OPERATIONAL PLANS
Outlines the organization’s future role and functions.
ORGANIZATIONAL VISION
Outlines the purpose of the agency
ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION
Describes the vision of an organization and explains beliefs and gives direction to how the mission or purpose is achieved.
ORGANIZATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
Broad statements of intent
Goals
Specific behavior or tasks set for the accomplishment of a goal.
Objectives
A written plan stating how the organization will function and work together
POLICIES
Policies that are never written in any employee manual
Implied policies
Published to guide the employees and also to have a basic understanding of the company’s rules
Expressed policies
Methods and direction on how the policy will be implemented.
PROCEDURES
Plans that specifically define acceptable choices of action.
RULES
A planned sequence and combination of activities
PROGRAMS
Looking into the future
FORECASTING
Show task and schedule information, commonly used in project management.
Gantt chart
Nurse’s station at the side and the rooms are arranged
Traditional/Conventional
Nurse’s station at the center of the ward
Modern
Patients are arranged according to diseases presented.
Patients are grouped according to classification of illness.
Progressive Patient Care (PPC)
Modification of the modern set-up
Y-shaped
