Management, Managerial

tasks and skills

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Duration: 30 minutes

Presented by

Fahim Muntaha

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Learning Objectives

1. Describe what management is, why management is important, what managers do, and how managers utilize organizational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational goals

2. Distinguish among planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (the four principal managerial tasks), and explain how managers’ ability to handle each one affects organizational performance

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Learning Objectives

3. Differentiate among three levels of management, and

understand the tasks and responsibilities of managers

at different levels in the organizational hierarchy

4. Distinguish between three kinds of managerial skill,

and explain why managers are divided into different

departments to perform their tasks more efficiently and

effectively.

Various definitions:

• “Management is a multi-purpose organ that manages

business, manages managers & manages workers &

work”-Peter Drucker

• “To manage is to forecast & to plan, to organize, to

command, to co-ordinate & to control”

- Henri Fayol

• “Management is the art of getting things done through &

with people in formally organized groups”

--Mary Parker Follett & Harrold Koontz

• “Management is the process of accomplishment of

results through the efforts of other people”

-Lawrence Appley

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Management Is…

Effectiveness

EfficiencyGetting workdone through

others

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Efficiency and Effectiveness

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Functions of

Management

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Planning and

Decision Making

Defining goals,

establishing

strategy and

developing sub

plans to choose

alternatives and

coordinate activities

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Organizing

• Deciding where

decisions will be made

• Who will do what jobs

and tasks

• Who will work for

whom

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Leading

Motivating

Inspiring

Leading

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Controlling

Monitoring

progress towards

goal achievement

and taking

corrective action

when needed

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Levels of Management

Figure 1.3

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Relative Amount of Time That Managers Spend on

the Four Managerial Functions

Figure 1.4

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Managerial

Skills

Technical Skills Human Skills

Conceptual SkillsMotivation to

Manage

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Skill Types Needed

Figure 1.5

Thanks!

• Any Question?

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