MG 210 Lecture 1: Chapter 1 notes
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Organization- a deliberate arrangement of people brought together to accomplish a specific purpose. Management roles approach: mint burgs managerial roles. Analyzing and diagnosing complex situations to see how things fit together and to facilitate making good decisions: interpersonal skills. Working well with other people both individually and in groups by communicating, motivating, mentoring, and delegating: technical skills. Building a power base and establishing the right connections so they can get needed resources for their groups. Early management: 1776, adam smith- and the wealth of nations. Ground breaking publication for management saying that division of labor (or specialization, when a job is divided into pieces) The breakdown of jobs into narrow and repetitive tasks. An approach that involves using the scientific method to find the one best way for a job to be done. Jobs should be done by finding a scientific by finding the one best method, needs to be backed by science: general administrative theory.
