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