GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Selective Perception, Uptodate, Organizational Culture

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Deborah De Lange

Document Summary

Planning: set objectives and how to accomplish them. Organizing: assign tasks, allocate resources, and coordinate work activities. Informational exchange and process information: moniter, desseminate, spokesperson. Interpersonal interact with people: figurehead, leader, liaison. Decisional roles: negotiate, handle disturbances, allocate resources, entrepreneur. 5 criteria for useful information: timely re: deadlines, high quality re: used with confidence, complete re: current & up-to-date, relevant re: appropriate for the task, understandable re: clear. Your competencies: computer competency use computers to their best advantage. Information competency use technology to locate, retrieve, evaluate, organize, and analyze information for decision-making. Systematic rational; step by step; analytical; break problem down into small components; plan before action; search for information. Intuitive flexible; spontaneous; creative; quick and broad evaluation; many possible courses of action; deal with many aspects of a problem at once; facts are limited, no precedents. Multi-dimensional view many problems at once in relationship to each other, across short and long time horizons.