Management
Stephen P. Robbins Mary Coulter
Chapter
1
Management and Organizations
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Question
Learning Outcomes
1.1 Managers? & Organization?
• How managers differ from non-managerial employees.
• How to classify managers in organizations.
• The characteristics of an organization. • How today’s organizations are structured.
• Middle Managers
Individuals who manage the work of first-line managers.
• Top Managers
Individuals who are responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing plans and goals that affect the entire organization.
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Who Are Managers?
• Manager
Someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other people so that organizational goals can be accomplished.
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What Managers Do?
• Roles Manager’s Play
Roles are specific actions or behaviors expected of a manager, the expectation and responsibilities that are associated with being the person in that role.
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Who Are Managers?
• Your impression about a manager?
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Who Are Managers?
• 30 under 30 from Forbes 2014
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What Managers Do?
• Three Approaches to Defining What Managers Do.
Functions they perform. Roles they play. Skills they need.
• Is your course instructor a manager? (managerial function, managerial roles, and skills)
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Organizing

Arranging and structuring work to accomplish organizational goals.
Working with and through people to accomplish goals. Monitoring, comparing, and correcting work.
Manager VS Nonmanagerial employees
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Classifying Managers
a traditional pyramidal form
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What Managers Do?
• Management Roles (Mintzberg)
Interpersonal roles

Ceremonial or symbolic
Informational roles Decisional roles
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What Is Management?
• Managerial Concerns
Efficiency

“Doing things right” – Getting the most output for the least inputs “Doing the right things” – Attaining organizational goals
• Define management. • Efficiency and Effectiveness?
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What Is Management?
• Management involves coordinating and overseeing the work activities of others so that their activities are completed efficiently and effectively.
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What Managers Do?
• Functions Manager’s Perform
Planning

Defining goals, establishing strategies to achieve goals, developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities.
• Common Characteristics of Organizations
Have a distinct purpose (goal) Composed of people Have a deliberate structure
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Exhibit 1–1 Women in Managerial Positions Around the World
Women in Management Australia Canada Germany Japan Philippines United States 41.9 percent 36.3 percent 35.6 percent 10.1 percent 57.8 percent 50.6 percent Women in Top Manager’s Job 3.0 percent 4.2 percent N/A N/A N/A 2.6 percent
Mintzberg identified 10 roles grouped around interpersonal relationships, the transfer of information, and decision making.
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Effectiveness

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Exhibit 1–3 Effectiveness and Efficiency in Management
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Classifying Managers
positions
• First-line Managers
Individuals who manage the work of non-managerial employees.
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