Management - 4

02/12/2014

1.       The school of management are divided by-

-          3 parts

-          1. Classical management theory  (1880- 1920)

-          Henry Fayol, C. I. Barnard, L. Urwick & bureaucratic organizations (Maxweber).

-          2. Neo-classical theory (1920- 1950)

-          Elton  Mayo, F. J. Roethlisberger, W. J. Dickson , Maslow, McGregor, Argyris , Herzberg, Lickert, Lewin

-          3. Modern management theory (1950-

2.       Mathematical Model-

-          It emphasis the complete employs view by revisionist researcher  (Litchfield) which includes systems theory , contingency theory, organizational and management science.

3.       Managers are divided into three groups –

-          1. Supervisory (or first line or operational) managers are directly oversee the efforts of those who actually perform the work. Performance of various routine tasks to obtain desired outputs of every units and concomitant activities is taken care of this level.

-          2. Middle managers – are supervisory level but subordinate to the most senior executives of the organization; they have the responsibility to develop implementation strategies for the concepts determined by top management , execution supervision , monitoring and other related functions

-          3. Top managers- most senior executive of the organization. They are responsible for providing the overall direction of the organization

Levels of management their responsibilities, duties and skills :

Conceptual Technical	Human	Top	Planning, policy making , quality control and evolution, resources, mobilization
		Middle	Execution of activities , supervision , monitoring
		supervisory	Routine tasks, concomitant activities

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4.       Modern management uses PERT technique, CPM , system analysis and others for improving quality

5.       Newman and Summer identified 4 functions of management-

-          Organization, Planning, Leading & controlling

6.       Full from of SWOT analysis –

-          Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and threats

7.       Various steps of Planning are-

-          SWOT analysis is the first step of planning

-          Establishing specific & clear objectives is the second steps of planning

-          3^rd step of planning is Premising

-          4^th search for & examine alternative course of action

-          5^th systematic evolution of alternative courses

-          6^th selecting the best course of action

-          7^th formulating smaller derivative plans

-          8^th to numberise the plan along with derivative plans by converting them into budgetary figures.  

8.       Some important basic concepts of staffing are-

-          Job analysis

-          Job description

-          Job specification

-          Job enlargement

-          Job enrichment