midterm Flashcards
The formal rights of a manager to manage
Vested in the organizational position, not the person.
Provides the manager with positional power
Authority is accepted by the subordinates
Authority flow from the top, down.
Authority
A plan or action based on skill in managing or planning.
General program of action implying commitment of emphasis and resources to attain broad objectives.
Strategies/Methods/Techniques
Pertaining to a goal or end
Planning, organizing, Directing, Staffing, Controlling are aimed.
Without bias or prejudice
Objectives
The duty to perform the task the employee has been assigned.
responsibility
Benefits of Planning
Managers can set goals or objectives ahead of time
The enterprise or organization can prepare for anticipated impediments.
Employees are provided with guidelines in directing them.
Indicators of Poor Planning
Delayed submission of results Idle machines Insufficient materials Inappropriate machines/equipments Undistributed workload Skilled staff doing unskilled work Staffs performing tests outside their area of responsibility Quarreling bickering and/or confusions among staff
Factors affecting Laboratory Planning
Past Experience Market Potential Competition Hospital and Laboratory Relations Regulatory and Accrediting Agency Medical Trends Socio-political Trends
A comprehensive managerial system that integrates many key managerial activities in a systematic manner.
Management By Objectives (MBO)
These two are delegated together and make the employee accountable to superiors
Responsibility and Authority
Importance of Planning
Enables managers to determine goals of organization and develop over all strategies
Provides direction
Allows manager the opportunity to adjust the org to environment
Provides a standard for making process
Types of Plans
- Purposes or mission/aim
- Objectives
- Strategies/Methods/Techniques
- Policies
- Procedures
- Rules
- Programs
- Budget
Something one intends to get or do
An idea or ideal kept before the mind as an end of effort or action
Purposes or mission/aim
Indicators of Good Planning
On-time delivery of results/reports
Machines are in good condition
Materials are available
Machines’ specifications are utilized maximally
Distributed workload
Efficient utilization of staff’s ability/skills
Required trainings are being acquired
Harmonious relation among staffs among departments
Line departments perform the organization’s primary tasks.
Production, marketing, sales, R&D
Staff Departments provide specialized skills in support of line departments.
Engineering, Human Resources, Legal,
Advise and council in areas of expertise
Line and Staff Organizations
Required actions chosen from among alternatives
An authoritative regulation for action, conduct, method, procedures and arrangement
Rules
Implies an action and deals with method of achieving goals
Requires an operational or technical skills
Logical responsibility of the supervisor staff
Tactical Planning
Plans that establish a required method of handling future activities.
Act or method or manner of proceeding in some process or source of action.
Procedures
Also called division of Labor
Specialists get good at a specific task
Efficiency increases
Employees are selected based on specific skills
Training is geared toward increased efficiency.
Based on a mechanistic organization
Work Specialization
Statements or understanding which guide for decision making
Any plan or acts based on such principles
Policies
The process of deploying resources to achieve strategic goals
Organizing
Most basic of all managerial functions
Involves selecting missions and objectives and the actions to achieve it
Intellectually a demanding process
planning
Determining company’s long term goals and idenfying best approach
Top management does, with great importance
Strategic planning
Steps in Planning
Being of Opportunity Objectives or Goals Consider Planning Premises Identify Alternatives Evaluate Alternatives Choose an Alternative Formulate Supporting Plans Budget Considerations
Plan or procedure for dealing with some matter
Complex of goals, policies and procedures, task assignment etc.
Supported by necessary capitals and operating budgets.
Programs
What is organizing in terms of process, and structure
Process
a course of action, a route, a progression
Structure
an arrangement, a configuration, a construction
Benefits of MBO Weakness of MBO
Improvement of managing
Clarification of organization
Encouragement of personal commitment
Development of effective controls
Failure to teach the philosophy
Failure to give guidelines to goal setters
Difficulty in setting goals
Emphasis on short run goals
An unbroken line of authority
Unity of Command-Everyone has only one supervisor
Scalar Principle-Everyone has at least one boss. Everyone is included
Chain of Command
Refers to the objectives, programs, policies and procedures that are formulated in order to achieve the goals of an organization.
plan
Statement of expected results expressed in numerical terms
Plan for adjusting expenditures to income
Budget
