Management Functions
Kinds of Managers
Mintzberg
Management Skills
Hodge Podge
100

Deciding where decisions will be made, who will do what jobs, and who will work for whom.

What is Organizing

100

The CEO would fall in to this level.

What is Top Management?

100

Scanning the environment for information.

What is monitoring? 

100

The ability to see the whole picture.

What is Conceptual Skill?

100

Theorist who came up with the 4 Major Functions of Management (Planning, Organizing, Leading, Controlling)

Who is Henry Fayol?

200

Determining organizational goals and a means for achieving them.

What is Planning?

200

These managers work directly with the employees who are producing the goods and services.

What is a First-Line Manager?

200

Major role that deals with dealing with people.

What is Interpersonal?

200

Specialized procedures, techniques or skills needed to get the job done.

What is Technical Skill?

200

Getting work done through others.

What is Management?

300

Monitoring progress toward goal achievement and correcting for errors along the way.

What is Controlling?

300

A new type of manager position that facilitates team activities toward goal accomplishment.

Who is a Team Leader?

300
Dealing with an unhappy customer.

What is Disturbance Handling?

300

The ability to work well with others.

What is Human Skill?

300

Getting work done with a minimal amount of waste.

What is Efficiency?

400

Inspiring and motivating workers to work hard to achieve organizational goals.

What is Leading?

400
This manager is responsible for a sub unit or department within the company.

Who is a Middle Level Manager?

400

Meeting with a different department than your own to share information.

What is a Liaison?

400

Top managers need this skill more than other levels.

What is Conceptual Skill?

400

A manager who never makes it to the top.

Who is a Derailed Manager?

500

Function that involves being able to answer the questions, "What Business are You In?"

What is Planning?

500

This manager is responsible for the culture, climate, environment and change within an organization.

Who is a top level manager?

500

Deciding who gets what and in what amounts.

Who is a Resource Allocator?

500
An assessment of how willing one is to tell others what to do, reward/punish others.

What is Motivation to Manage

500

The No. 1 worst mistake managers can make.

What is being insensitive, a bully, intimidating or abrasive.