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Management (concept and application)

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-Getting work done through others
-Key to an organizations success
-Efficiency and effectiveness

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Four functions of management

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-Planning
-Organizing
-Leading
-Controlling

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Levels of management

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-top manager
-middle manager
-first line manager
-team leader

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top manager

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-Executives responsible for the overall direction of the organization
-Responsible for creating change, employee buy-in, good culture

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middle manager

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-Setting objectives consistent with top management goals
-Planning/allocating resources
-Linking/coordinating divisions within a firm
-Monitoring/managing subunits and individual managers
-Implementing strategies developed by top managers

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first line manager

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-Responsible for managing the performance of entry level employees
-Responsible for monitoring, teaching, short term planning
-Encourage/reward workers

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team leader

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-Responsible for facilitating team activities toward goal accomplishment
-Help team members plan, learn, work effectively
-Foster internal/external relationships

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manager roles

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-interpersonal
-informational
-decisional

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interpersonal managers

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-Figurehead (ceremonial duties)
-Leader (motivate/encourage workers to accomplish objectives)
-Liaison (deal with people outside their units)

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informational managers

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-Monitor (scan environment for info, contact others for info, and receive unsolicited info)
-Disseminator (share collected info with their subordinates/others in the company)
-Spokesperson (share info with people outside their department/company)

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decisional managers

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-Entrepreneur (adapts everyone to change)
-Disturbance handler (responds to pressures/problems that demand immediate attention/action)
-Resource allocator (decide who gets what resources/what amounts)
-Negotiator (negotiate schedules, projects, resources, goals, outcomes, and employee raises)

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Manager skills

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-technical
-human
-conceptual
-motivation

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technical (skill)

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-Specialized procedures, techniques, and knowledge required to get the job done
-Essential for team leaders/lower level managers

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human (skill)

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-Ability to work well with others
-Essential at all levels of management

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conceptual (skill)

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-See organization as a whole
-Understanding how different parts effect each other
-Recognize how the company fits into or is affected by its external environment

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motivation (skill)

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-Assessment of how enthusiastic employees are about managing the work of others

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scientific management

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-Thorough study/testing of different work methods to identify the most efficient way to complete a job

-Frederick W. Taylor considered the father of scientific management

-Soldiering (workers slow pace)

-Rate buster (workers work is significantly faster)

-Time study (how long it takes good workers to complete their job)

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Gilbreth

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-Husband/wife who used motion study to simplify work/improve productivity

-Motion study used to eliminate unnecessary/repetitive things

-Motion picture was a relatively new technology

-Lillian was an early contributor to industrial psychology

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bureaucratic organization characteristics

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-Max Weber
-Exercise of control on the basis of knowledge, expertise, or experience
-Purpose to achieve organizations goal efficiently as possible
-7 qualities

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7 qualities of bureaucratic organization

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-Qualification based hiring
-Merit based promotion
-Chain of command
-Division of labor
-impartial application of rules/procedures
-Recorded in writing
-Managers separate from owners

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fayol 14 principles

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-Division of work
-Authority/responsibility
-Discipline
-Unity of command
-Unity of direction
-Subordination of individual interests to the general interest
-Remuneration
-Centralization
-Scalar chain
-Order
-Equity
-Stability of tenure of personnel
-Initiative
-Esprit de corps

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Hawthorne effect

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-Factors related to work found to be more important than the physical conditions/design of the work

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Environmental change

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-Rate at which a company’s general/specific environments change
-Stable (change is slow)
-Dynamic (change is fast)
-Punctuated equilibrium (long periods of stability with small change)

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environmental complexity

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-Number/intensity of external factors in the environment that affect organizations
-Simple (few environmental factors)
-Complex (many environmental factors)

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resource scarcity
-Abundance/ shortage of critical organizational resources in an organizations external environment -Uncertainty (Managers can understand/predict which environmental changes and trends will affect their businesses)
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General environment components and indices
-Economy Business confidence indices (managers level of confidence about future growth) -Technological trends -Sociocultural trends (demographic characteristics, general behavior, attitudes, and beliefs of people in society) -Political/legal trends that indirectly affect all organizations (Legislation, regulations, and court decisions that govern and regulate business behavior)
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Different advocacy groups
-public communication -product boycott -media advocacy
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public communication (advocacy group)
-Voluntary participation by the news media/advertising industry to get the advocacy group’s message out
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media advocacy
-Framing issues as public issues, exposing unethical practices, and forcing media to cover by buying media time or creating controversy
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product boycott
-Protesting a company’s actions by persuading consumers not to purchase its product/services
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organizational culture
-Values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by organizational members -Internal environment (Events/trends inside an organization that affect management, employees, and organizational culture) -Consistent organizational culture (Company actively defines/teaches organizational values, beliefs, and attitudes)
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company mission
-Company’s purpose or reason for existing
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workplace deviance
-Unethical behavior that violates organizational norms about right/wrong
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property deviance
-Unethical behavior aimed at the organization’s property or products
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political deviance
-Using one’s influence to harm others in the company
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Production deviance
-Unethical behavior that hurts the quality and quantity of work produced
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ethical intensity 6 factors
-Degree of concern people have about an ethical issue 1.)Magnitude of consequences 2.)Social consensus 3.)Probability of effect 4.)Temporal immediacy 5.)Proximity of effect 6.)Concentration of effect
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Magnitude of consequences (ethical intensity)
Harm/benefit derived from decision
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Social consensus (ethical intensity)
Agreement/disagreement on behavior
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probability of effect (ethical intensity)
Chance something will happen that harms others
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temporal immediacy (ethical intensity)
Time between act and consequences act produces
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proximity of effect (ethical intensity)
Distance between decision maker and those affected
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concentration of effect (ethical intensity)
Harm/benefit an act produces on the avg person
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selecting/hiring test
-Overt integrity test (Written test that estimates job applicant’s honesty by thoughts on unethical behaviors) -Personality-based integrity test (Written test that estimates job applicant’s honesty by measuring psychological traits, such as dependability and conscientiousness)
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ethical decision making
-Managers can encourage by careful hiring, establishing ethics, training ethics, and creating an ethical environment
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whistle blower
-Reporting others ethics violations to management or legal authorities
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stakeholders
-Person/group with a stake/legitimate interest in a company’s actions -Achieved by satisfying the interest of multiple corporate stakeholders
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primary stakeholder
-Group on which an organization relies for its long term survival
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secondary stakeholder
-Group that can influence/be influenced by a company and can affect public perceptions about the company
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social responsibility
-take actions that benefit society
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economic (social responsibility)
-Social responsibility to make a profit by producing a valued product/service
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Legal (social responsibility)
-Social responsibility to obey society’s laws/regulations
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discretionary (social responsibility)
-Social roles a company fulfills beyond its economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities
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reactivity (response to social responsibility)
-does less than society expects
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defensive (response to social responsibility)
-admits responsibility for a problem -does the least required to meet societal expectations
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accommodative (response to social responsibility)
-accepts responsibility -does all that society expects to solve that problem
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proactive (response to social responsibility)
-anticipates a problem before it occurs -does more than society expects to take responsibility for and address the problem

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