Kinesiology 2298A/B Lecture 3: What is Management
16 Dec 2016
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What is Management
Management Defined
-The process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals”
•Bateman & Snell, 2007, p. 16
-“The process of communicating, coordinating, and accomplishing action in the pursuit of
organizational objectives while managing relationships with stakeholders, technologies, and
other artifacts both within as well as between organizations”
•Clegg, Kornberger, & Pitsis, 2005, p. 500
Function of Management
-Planning
•Setting the goals for the organization and its members (what)
•Specifying how to achieve those goals (hoe)
•May be short or long term
•Basis for all other functions
-Organizing
•Breaking down the total work into specific jobs
•Specifies who should do what; individuals and groups
•Methods of coordination
-Leading
•Influencing and motivating members to achieve organization goals
•When someone is a good leader, you are the one who wants to achieve the tasks.
Managers can be leaders but typically they are the ones wanting the tasks to get
completed
•More difficult
-Evaluation
•Assessing how well the organization accomplished what is set out to do
•Involves feedback and performance measures
•Enables corrective action
POSDCORB — A More Comprehensive List of Managerial Functions
-Planning
-Organizing
-Staffing
-Directing
-Coordinating
-Reporting
-Budgeting
Skills and Competencies of Managers
Document Summary
The process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals : bateman & snell, 2007, p. 16. The process of communicating, coordinating, and accomplishing action in the pursuit of organizational objectives while managing relationships with stakeholders, technologies, and other artifacts both within as well as between organizations : clegg, kornberger, & pitsis, 2005, p. 500. Planning: setting the goals for the organization and its members (what, specifying how to achieve those goals (hoe, may be short or long term, basis for all other functions. Organizing: breaking down the total work into speci c jobs, speci es who should do what; individuals and groups, methods of coordination. Leading: in uencing and motivating members to achieve organization goals, when someone is a good leader, you are the one who wants to achieve the tasks. Managers can be leaders but typically they are the ones wanting the tasks to get completed: more dif cult.
