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It may be defined as the creative problem solving process of PLANNING, ORGANIZING, LEADING, and COONTROLLING an organization’s resources to achieve its missions and objectives.
Management
It refers to the activity combining technical knowledge with the ability to organize and coordinate worker power, material, machinery, and money.
Engineering Management
What is the top position an engineer may hope to occupy?
General Managership or Presidency of any firm.
TRUE OR FALSE: As he scales the management ladder, he finds that the higher he goes up, the more technical activities he performs, and the less management tasks he accepts.
FALSE
“As he scales the management ladder, he finds that the higher he goes up, the LESS technical activities he performs, and the MORE management tasks he accepts.”
What are the processes that management consists of?
Planning
Organizing
Leading
Controlling
What level are those with minimal engineering jobs, like retail firms?
Level One
What level those with moderate degree of engineering jobs, like transportation companies?
Level Two
What level are those with a high degree of engineering jobs, like construction firms?
Level Three
Among the types of organizations, at what level will the engineer have a slim chance of becoming the general manager or president, unless, of course, he owns the firm? The engineer manager may be assigned to head a small engineering unit of the firm, but there will not be too many firms that will have this unit.
Level One
Among the types of organizations, at what level may the engineer be assigned to head the engineering division? The need for management skills will now be felt by the engineering manager.
Level Two
Among the types of organizations, at what level does it provide the biggest opportunity for an engineer to become president or general manager? In this case, the engineer manager cannot function effectively without adequate management skills.
Level Three
What are the types of organizations that may be classified according to the engineering jobs performed?
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
When did the formal study of management begin?
Later in the 19th century
He is one of the early pioneers of management theory.
Frederick W. Taylor
He is a mechanical engineer who believed that it was management’s task to design jobs properly and to provide incentives to motivate workers to achieve higher productivity.
Frederick W. Taylor
This institute is believed to have the oldest engineering management department, established as the School of Business Engineering in 1908. This was later called the Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM).
Stevens Institute of Technology
According to him, specialization promotes efficiency of the workforce and increases productivity. In addition, the specialization of the workforce increases their accuracy and speed.
Jules Henri Fayol
He was a German sociologist who approached management by focusing on organizational structures, dividing organizations into hierarchies with clear lines of authority and control.
Max Weber
He believed that an ideal bureaucracy consists of six specific characteristics: hierarchy of command, impersonality, written rules of conduct, advancement based on achievement, specialized division of labor and efficiency.
Max Weber
What are those six specific characteristics that an ideal bureaucracy consists of, as believed by Max Weber?
- Hierarchy of command
- Impersonality
- Written rules of conduct
- Advancement based on achievement
- Specialized division of labor
- Efficiency
He was a Harvard professor who proposed that managers should become more “people oriented”.
Elthon Mayo
Conducting experiments on conditions in the workplace and incorporating the well-published findings of hawthorne studies, HE declared that logical factors were far less important than emotional factors in determining productive efficiency”.
Elthon Mayo
He concluded that participation in social groups and group pressure as proposed to organizational structures or demands from management had the strongest impact on worker productivity.
Elthon Mayo
He explained that becoming a servant leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve followed by the aspiration to lead. Although the concept of servant leader is found in the bible and might even date further back into antiquity, it was first proposed as a management by him.
Peter Greenleaf
This is where the engineers are engaged in the process of learning about nature and codifying this knowledge into usable theories.
Research
This is where the engineers undertakes the activity of turning a product concept to a finished physical item.
Design and Development
This is where the engineer works in a unit where new products or parts are tested for work ability.
Testing
This is where the engineer is directly in charge of production personnel and assumes responsibility for the product.
Manufacturing
This is where the construction engineer is either directly in charge of the construction personnel or may have responsibility for the quality of the construction process.
Construction
This is where the engineer assists the company’s costumers to meet their needs, especially those that required technical expertise.
Sales
This is where the engineer works as consultant of any individual or organization requiring his services.
Consulting
This is where the engineer may find employment performing any of the various task in regulating, monitoring, and controlling the activities of various institutions, public or private.
Government
This is where the engineer gets employment in a school and is assigned as a teacher of engineering courses. Some of them later becomes deans, vice-president and presidents.
Teaching
This is where the engineer is assigned to manage groups of people performing specific tasks.
Management
What are the three general preconditions for achieving lasting success as a manager, as indicated by Kreitner?
Ability
Motivation to Manage
Opportunity
It refers to the capacity of engineer manager to achieve organizational objectives effectively and efficiently.
Managerial Ability
According to Higgins, it refers to a description of whether objectives are accomplished.
Effectiveness