Groups
A group managers establish to achieve organizational goals.
Formal Group
A type of planning performed by managers that involves analyzing competitive opportunities and threats, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. Has a long time frame, typically three years or more.
Strategic Planning
A manager who is responsible for the daily supervision of nonmanagerial employees
First-Line Managers
Management skill that involves the ability to analyze and diagnose a situation to distinguish between cause and effect
Conceptual Skill
The shared of beliefs, expectations, values, norms, and work routines that influence how individuals, groups, and teams interact with one another and cooperate to achieve organizational goals.
Organizational Cultures
A group that managers or non managerial employees form to help them achieve their own goals and meet their own needs.
Informal group
A type of planning that is intermediate range (1-3 years) that is designed to develop relatively concrete and specific means to implement the strategic plan.
Tactical Planning
A manager who supervises first-line managers and is responsible for finding the best way to use resources to achieve organizational goals.
Middle Manager
Management skill that demonstrates the ability to understand, alter, lead, and control the behavior of other individuals or groups.
Human Skills
a model that explains how personality may influence organizational culture
Attraction-Selection-Attrition Framework
A group composed of subordinates who report to the same supervisor; also called department or unit.
Command Group
A type of planning that generally assumes the existence of organization-wide or subunit goals and objectives and specific ways to achieve them. Short range planning of less than a year
Operational Planning
A manager who establishes organizational goals, decides how departments should interact, and monitors the performance of middle managers.
Top Managers
Management skill that involves job specific knowledge and techniques required to perform an organizational role.
Technical skills
the process by which newcomers learn an organization's values and norms and acquire the work behaviors necessary to perform jobs effectively
Organizational Socialization
A committee of managers or nonmanagerial employees from various departments or divisions who meet to solve a specific, mutual problem, also called an ad hoc committee.
Task Force
role of managers that involves identifying and selecting appropriate goals
Planning
A group composed of the CEO, the COO, and the vice presidents of the most important departments of the company
Top-Management Team
Downsizing an organization by eliminating the jobs of large numbers of managerial and non-managerial employees.
Restructuring
signify what an organization and its employees are trying to accomplish
Terminal Values
A team whose members have the expertise and experience needed to develop new products.
Research and development Group
The creation of a new vision for a struggling company based on a new approach to planning and organizing to make better use of a company's resources and allow it to survive and prosper
Turnaround Management
Contracting with another company, usually abroad, to have it perform an activity the organization previously performed itself.
Outsourcing
guide how the organization and its members achieve organizational goals
Instrument values