MANGMT 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Project Management Software, Videotelephony, Knowledge Management
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High profile role is a stepping stone: social- improve society, stockholder, financial- profits for owners, jobs for workers for profit- amazon- social value. The art of getting things done through people . Management- pursuit of organizational goals efficiently and effectively by (2) integrating the work of people through (3) planning, organizing, leading, controlling the organization"s resources. Efficiently and effectively, basically mean doing things right . To be efficient means to use resources- people, money, raw, materials, and the like wisely and cost- effectively. (means of attaining goal) To be effective means to achieve results, to make the right right decisions and to successfully carry them out so that they achieve the organization"s goals. ( regards the organization"s ends) The reason is that in being a manager you have a multiplier effect: Your influence on the organization is multiplied far beyond the results that can be achieved by just one person acting alone.
