BUS 326 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Henri Fayol, System On A Chip, Inflectional Phrase

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Business Management
• Course: BUS 326
• Professor: Julia Bear

Document Summary

Manager get things done through other people: make decisions, allocate resources, direct activities of others to attain goals. Organization consciously coordinated social unit composed of 2+ ppl to achieve common goal/set of goals. Interpersonal roles: figurehead role, leadership role, liaison role. Decisional roles: entrepreneur role, disturbance handlers, resource allocators, negotiator role. Technical skills ability to apply specialized knowledge/expertise. Human skills ability to understand, comm w/, motivate, and support other ppl individually and in groups. Conceptual skills mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex sit. Traditional managemnt decision making, planning, controlling. Communication exchanging routing info and processing paperwork. Hr management motivating, disciplining, managing conflict, staffing, training. Networking socializing, politicking, interacting w/ outsiders. Successful managers (speed of promotion w/in org) networking = largest contrib to success and. Effective managers (quantity and quality of perf and satisfaction and commitment of employees) Behav generally predictabrle, systematic study of behav to make reasonably accurate predictions.