ADMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Henry Mintzberg, Henri Fayol, Original Intent

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1010
• Professor: Helen Pogrin

Document Summary

Administrating/managing what: primary focus is business, also, government, not-for-profits , any organization. First collegiate business schools: wharton, u of pennsylvania, u. of chicago graduate school of business, harvard business school. Original intent was to develop a professional degree similar to law and medicine: manage corporations in the interest of a variety of stakeholders, shareholders, customers, employees, society. Rapid growth of b-schools following ww2: returning soldiers needed jobs, public policy goal to have no unemployment. Car(cid:374)egie & ford fou(cid:374)datio(cid:374)s (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)issio(cid:374) studies (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) i(cid:374) the later (cid:1005)95(cid:1004)"s: led to greater legitimacy and power within universities. 2 main teaching methods: traditional skills-based, lecture style, case-method, developed in harvard. The manager: the person in charge of the organization or one of subunits. He critics the classic view of management. Folklore: manager is a reflective, systematic planner. Fact: managers work at an unrelenting pace, activities are characterized by variety, managers like action, avoid reflection. Folklore: the effective manager has no regular duties.