Reading 4 Flashcards
What is management
The responsibility for and control of the company or organisation
Name three things that manages do
Organising commanding planning forecasting coordinating controlling
What was Peter Druckers two ideas of management?
Hard aspects and soft aspects
What is the hard aspects of management
Examples such as setting objectives targets allocating tasks and measuring performance
What are the soft aspects of management
Soft aspects all people based such as communication motivation and development
What does Mintzberg argue
Managers perform 10 different types of roles
What is it interpersonal role
Roles arise directly at the managers formal authority
Monitor
The manager of scanning the environment that information and so forth
Decimetre
The manager passes on information to employees who otherwise wouldn’t have access to it
Spoke person
The manager sends information outside the work unit
What’s a decisional role
Well that form a large part of the managerial work
Entrepreneur
The manager actively seek to improve the organisational unit and adapt to the changing environment
Disturb and handler
Managers respond to pressure outside their control that is not planned
Re-sources allocators
The manager must decide who and what task gets recourses
