The Management Process Today
The Manager as a Person
Elements of Management
Potpouri
100

Identifying and selecting appropriate goals:  one of the four principal tasks of management

Planning

100

A collection of feelings and beliefs

Attitude

100

The highest level of management in the organizational hierachy

CEO

100

The founder of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg

200

A manager who is responsible for the daily supervision of non-managerial employees

First-line manager

200

The ability to understand manage one's own moods and emotions and the moods and emotions of other people.

Emotional Intelligence

200

Refers to a specific set of departmental skills, knowledge and experience

Core competecies
200

The state of being unable to pay one's debt

Bankruptcy

300

A measure of the appropriateness of the goals of organization in pursing and of the degree to which the organization achieves those goals.

Effectiveness

300

The degree to which individuals feel good about themselves and their capabilities.

Self-esteem

300

The ability to understand, alter, lead and control the behavior of other individuals and groups as well as the ability to communicate, coordinate and motivate people into a cohesive team.

Human Skills

300
The department looking after the staff

Human Resources

400

Downsizing an organization by eliminating the jobs of large numbers of top, middle and first-line managers and non-managerial employees.

Restructuring

400

A lifelong goal or objective than an individual seeks to achieve

Terminal value

400

The ability of one organization to outperform other organizations because it produces desired goods or services more efficiently and effectively than its competitors.  

Competitive advantage

400

What does the term TQM stand for?

Total Quality Management

500

The expansion of employee' knowledge, tasks, and decision-making responsibilities.

Empowerment

500

Thee tendency to experience negative emotions and moods, to feel distressed, and to be critical of oneself and others

Negative affectivity

500

Obligations a company has towards the people and groups affected by its activities such as employees, customers and its surrounding community.

Social responsibility

500

President of Park University

Greg Gunderson, Ph.D.