ADM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Explicit Knowledge, Masculinity, Strategic Thinking

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1300
• Professor: Gerard Brathwaite- Sturgeon

Document Summary

All pro t seeking activities and enterprises that provide goods and services necessary to an economic issues. Rewards for business people who take the risks involved to offer goods (products) and services. A collection of people working together to achieve a common purpose. Organizations provide useful goods and services that return value to society and satisfy customer needs. A party that has an interest in a company, and can either affect or be affected by the business. De ned as the art and science of getting things accomplished through others in organizations. Top managers: responsible for the performance of the organization as a whole or for the one of its larger parts. Middle managers: in charge of relatively large departments or divisions. Team leaders or supervisors: in charge of a small work group of non-managerial workers. The organization as an upside down pyramid. Re ects the changing nature of work today. A managers job to support work efforts.