Management Functions
Deciding where decisions will be made, who will do what jobs, and who will work for whom.
What is Organizing
The CEO would fall in to this level.
What is Top Management?
Scanning the environment for information.
What is monitoring?
The ability to see the whole picture.
What is Conceptual Skill?
Theorist who came up with the 4 Major Functions of Management (Planning, Organizing, Leading, Controlling)
Who is Henry Fayol?
Determining organizational goals and a means for achieving them.
What is Planning?
These managers work directly with the employees who are producing the goods and services.
What is a First-Line Manager?
Major role that deals with dealing with people.
What is Interpersonal?
Specialized procedures, techniques or skills needed to get the job done.
What is Technical Skill?
Getting work done through others.
What is Management?
Monitoring progress toward goal achievement and correcting for errors along the way.
What is Controlling?
A new type of manager position that facilitates team activities toward goal accomplishment.
Who is a Team Leader?
What is Disturbance Handling?
The ability to work well with others.
What is Human Skill?
Getting work done with a minimal amount of waste.
What is Efficiency?
Inspiring and motivating workers to work hard to achieve organizational goals.
What is Leading?
Who is a Middle Level Manager?
Meeting with a different department than your own to share information.
What is a Liaison?
Top managers need this skill more than other levels.
What is Conceptual Skill?
A manager who never makes it to the top.
Who is a Derailed Manager?
Function that involves being able to answer the questions, "What Business are You In?"
What is Planning?
This manager is responsible for the culture, climate, environment and change within an organization.
Who is a top level manager?
Deciding who gets what and in what amounts.
Who is a Resource Allocator?
What is Motivation to Manage
The No. 1 worst mistake managers can make.
What is being insensitive, a bully, intimidating or abrasive.