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Tohfa
For the student of Management
Compiled by
Gaffar Khan
15th Batch
Session: 2007-2008
Department of Management
Islamic University, Kushtia.
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Management Handbook
(Viva-Voce and academic Purpose only)
Career:
Career means a job which you are trained for and which you expect do all your life
- P. H. Collin
Management:
The word Management comes from a Latin or Italian word managgiare (to train up
the horses)
Management is the co-ordination and integration of all resources, both human and
technical to accomplish various specific results.
Who is Manager?
Manager is one who organizes other people’s doings.
Those who undertake the task and functions of managing at any level in any kind
of enterprise
Management level
There are three levels TOP, Middle, lower level mgt.
6M in Management:
-Man
-Machine
-Materials
-Money
-Market
-Method
Mackinsey’s 7s Model:
-Strategy
-Structure
-System
-Style
-Staff
-Shared values
-Skill
Pioneer of Z-Theory
Prof William Ouchi in 1981
Functions of Management:
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Leading
Directing
Motivating
Coordinating
Controlling
Types of Managers
Top level manager (conceptual & design skills)
Middle level manager(Human skills)
First line manager(Technical skill)
Managerial skill
Technical skill
Human skills or interpersonal skill
Conceptual
Diagnostic skills
Managerial role:
Interpersonal roles: An interpersonal role means the roles of figurehead,
leader and liaison, which involve dealing with other people.
What are the difference between unity of command and unity of direction?
The principle of unity of command is concerned with functioning of people while
unity of direction is related to the activities.
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Unity of Command: Employees get command from only one given authority.
A subordinate (employee) must have and receive orders from only one superior
(boss or manager)
Unity of direction: One head and one plan for a group of activities with the same
objective. All activities which have the same objective must be directed by one
manager, and he must use one plan. This is called Unity of Direction
Management environment:
The elements of environment which affects management process is called
management environment
Business environment:
The environment includes factors outside the firm which can lead to opportunities
for or threat to the firm (Gluck and Joss)
Management Ethics:
Managerial ethics are standards of conduct and moral judgment used by managers
of organizations in carrying out their business.
SWOT means
Strength
Weakness
Opportunity
Threat
2. Classical Theory:
Henry Fayol
Max Weber (1824-1920)
Chester I Bernard (1866-1961)
4. Behavioral School
5. Quantitative approach
Contingency approach:
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Define System:
A system is an interrelated set of elements functioning as a whole
Reengineering System
External environment
Planning:
The word planning comes from Latin word planus which means drawing sketch.
Deciding in advance what is to be done; that is, a plan is a projected course of
action (Newman)
Plan is a trap to capture the future- L.A Allen
Plan is a predetermined course of action to achieve a special aim or goal- S.A
Sherlekar
Planning is the management function that involves setting goals and deciding how
best to achieve them (Bartol & Martin)
Mission: The activities to be taken to achieve long term goal. What we do to meet
up vision.
The basic function of a business of it
Vision: The ultimate goal of a business is called of its vision. where we are going
that is called vision
Strategic Plan: Strategic Plans are broad plans developed by top managers to
guide the general directions of the org.
Kinds of Strategy:
» Corporate level strategy
» Business level strategy
» Functional level strategy
Policies
Policies may be defined as the regular process of accomplishing a work, such as
selling product in cash.
Permanent/standing solutions for recurring problem
Procedure
Procedures are plans that establish a required method of handling future activities.
They are chronologically sequences of required actions. They are guides to action
rather than to thinking and they detail the exact manner in which certain activities
must be accompanied.
Rules
Program:
Program is a single use plan for a large set of activities.
Budget:
A budget is a statement of expected results expressed in numerical terms
Decision Making
Decision Making is defined as the selection of a course of action among
alternatives- Weirich and koontz
STEPS IN PLANNING:
Efficiency
Efficiency is the achievement of the ends with the least amount of
resources.(koontz).
Efficiency means doing things rights(R.M Hodgetts)
Effectiveness
Effectiveness is the achievement of objectives
Productivity
The output-input ratio within a time period with due consideration for quality. We
can express it as
Organizing
Organizing is the process of allocating and arranging human and non human
resources so that plans can be carried out successfully (Bartol & Martin).
Organization:
Organization is harmonious adjustment of specialized parts for the accomplishment
of some common purpose or purposes-Prof Haney
The process of identifying and grouping the work to be performed, defining and
delegation responsibility and authority and establishing relationship for the purpose
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of enabling people to work most effectively together in accomplishing objectives –
L. A Allen
Elements of Organization:
According to R. W Griffin-
1. Identify Jobs
2. Grouping jobs
3. Establishing relationships
4. Distributing authority
5. Coordinating activities
Organization Structure:
OS is the formal pattern of interactions and coordination designed by management
to link the tasks of individuals and groups in achieving organizational goals –
Bartol & Martin
B. Informal Org.
Line org.:
An org. in which there is direct flow of authority from the top of the org. to the
bottom.
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Functional org.:
Combination or blend of functional and product departmentalization in which there
is a dual command system that emphasizes both inputs and outputs
Departmentalization:
The grouping into departments of work activities that are similar and logically
connected
Authority:
Authority means the right to give orders and the power to exact obedience –H
fayol
Line Authority:
Formal Authority based on the hierarchical positions in the chain of command.
Responsibility:
The obligation to carry out duties and achieve goals related to a position- Bartol &
martin
Centralization:
Centralization tends to concentrate decision making at the top of the org. ( Terry
and Franklin)
Decentralization:
Dispersion of power and decision making to successively lower levels of the org.
(Mosely)
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Span of management/Supervision:
The number of people who report to a particular manager.
Cooperation:
The collective action of one person with another or other towards a common goal (
G. R Terry)
Types of organization:
Organization structure
Direction:
The process by which actual performance of subordinates is guided toward
common goals (J.L Massie)
Division of work:
Delegation of authority
Leadership:
The ability to influence and motivate others to achieve organizational goal (Bovee)
Types of leader:
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Formal leadership:
Group
Group is a two or more persons who working together to achieve common goals
Team
A small number of people with complementary skill work together to achieve
common objectives
Functions of leader:
Characteristics of leader
Co-ordinating:
Coordination deals with synchronizing and unifying the actions of a group of
people.(prof. Newman)
Motivation:
Motivation is the act of stimulating someone or oneself to take a desired course of
action. (M.Jucius)
A force that cause people to behave in a certain ways
Douglas McGregor,
Theory x Assumptions
1. People do not like work and try to avoid it.
2. People do not like work, so managers have to control, direct, coerce, and
threaten employees to get them to work toward organizational goals.
3. People prefer to be directed, to avoid responsibility, to want security; they have
little ambition.
Theory Y Assumptions:
1. People do not naturally dislike work; work is a natural part of their lives.
2. People are internally motivated to reach objectives to which they are committed.
3. People are committed to goals to the degree that they receive personal rewards
when they reach
4. People seek and accept responsibility under favorable conditions their
objectives
5. People are bright, but under most organizational conditions their potentials are
underutilized.
6. People have the capacity to be innovative in solving organizational problems.
Controlling:
Controls involve whether anything occurs conformity of the plan, the instruction
issued and principles established. (H.Fayol)
Other way, Control measure performance against goals and plans, showing where
deviations from standards exist, and helping to correct them.
Controlling process
Controlling techniques
A. Budgetary Control technique
B. Non Budgetary control technique
a. Gantt chart
b. Milestone budgeting
c. PERT –Program evaluation review technique
d. Program budgeting
C. Controlling technique of overall performance
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a. Budget summary & report
b. Breakeven point method
c. Control through ROI
Budgetary control:
A tool of management used to plan, carry out & control the operations of the
business (J.I Brown)
Theory:
Theory is a systematic grouping of interdependent concepts and principles that
gives a framework to, or ties together, a significant area of knowledge.
Science:
Science, application of the scientific method to the development of knowledge. It
comprises clear concepts, theory, and other accumulated knowledge developed
from hypothesis, experimentation and analysis. so it’s a organized knowledge.
Technique:
Techniques are essentially ways of doing things, methods of accomplishing a given
result.
Staffing:
Staffing is the process of recruiting, selecting, training and developing
organizational personnel (R. M Hodgets)
Recruitment:
The process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply
for jobs in the org. (EB Flippo)
b. External sources
1. Job seekers
2. Educational institutes
3. Advertisement
4. Employment exchange commission
Selection:
The process in which an enterprise chooses the applicants who best meet the
criteria for the available positions (RM Hodgetts)
Job Design:
The specification of task activities associated with a particular job ( Bartol and
Martin)
Promotion:
Placing employee to the higher position with greater responsibility, greater
knowledge, and greater advantages.
Basis of promotion:
a. On the basis of seniority
b. On the basis of merit
c. On the basis of seniority and merit
HRM:
The management of various activities designed to enhance the effectiveness of an
organizations work force in achieving organizational goal ( Bartol & Martin)
Training :
The process of altering employees behavior and attitudes in a way that increases
the probability of goal attainment. *(Hodgets)
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Organization Development (OD):
A systematic, integrated and planned approach in improving enterprise
effectiveness (Koontz)
Behavioral science
Industrial science:
c. Unity of direction
d. Centralization
e. Scaler chain
f. Espirit de corps
Span of control:
MBO:
Management by objectives (MBO)( popularized by Peter F Drucker in1954 )
MBO is the process of collaborative goal setting by a manager and subordinate-
Griffin
MBE:
Management by Exception is a "policy by which management devotes it’s time to
investigating only those situations in which actual results differ significantly from
planned results.
The idea is that management should spend its valuable time concentrating on the
more important items (such as shaping the company's future strategic course).
Attention is given only to material deviations requiring investigation."
Management Thought:
The schools of management thought are theoretical frameworks for the study of
management.
Gantt chart:
A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts
illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements
of a project.
Organizational conflict
Job enrichment
Job Enlargement
Hierarchy of Objectives
The hierarchy of objectives is a tool that helps analyze and communicate the
project objectives. It organizes these objectives into different levels of a hierarchy
or tree. Different organizations use different names for the various levels and the
types of objectives at each level, but otherwise there is a great deal of similarity in
approach.
Policy
Strategic, and
Operational.
For example:
Hawthorne studies and its effect conducted at western electric factory outside
Chicago. (Contributor Elton Mayo)
The Hawthorne effect is a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify
an aspect of their behavior being experimentally measured simply in response to
the fact that they are being studied, not in response to any particular experimental
manipulation. (Wiki)
Mayo is known as the founder of the Human Relations Movement, and is known
for his research including the Hawthorne Studies and his book The Human
Problems of an Industrialized Civilization (1933). The research he conducted
under the Hawthorne Studies of the 1930s showed the importance of groups in
affecting the behavior of individuals at work. Mayo's employees, Roethlisberger
and Dickson, conducted the practical experiments. This enabled him to make
certain deductions about how managers should behave. He carried out a number of
investigations to look at ways of improving productivity, for example changing
lighting conditions in the workplace. What he found however was that work
satisfaction depended to a large extent on the informal social pattern of the work
group. Where norms of cooperation and higher output were established because of
a feeling of importance, physical conditions or financial incentives had little
Grapevine:
A kind of informal organization network over which information tend to flow
usually regularly, between persons who know and trust each other.
Virtual Company:
An organization that uses information technology to link people, organization,
assets and ideas.
Marketing
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Marketing:
It is all about finding out and then link or contacts between producers and
consumers.
To make this link, it is very important to find out & then deliver exactly what
consumers wants.
So, it is all about finding out and then delivering what consumers wants in a
profitable way.
Market:
The set of actual & potential buyers of a product
Consumer:
One who purchase for the purpose of individual or household consumption.
Need:
The state of felt deprivation (Kotler)
Wants:
Wants are desire for specific satisfies of those deeper needs
Demand:
Demands are human wants that are backed by buying power
Customer:
Someone who regularly purchase from a particular store or company
Locus of Control
The extent to which individuals believe they can control events affecting them.
Understanding of the concept was developed by Julian B. Rotter in 1954, and has since
become an aspect of personality studies.
A person with an internal locus of control believes that he or she can influence events
and their outcomes, while someone with an external locus of control blames outside forces
for everything.
Reinforcement theory
It proposes that you can change someone's behavior by using reinforcement, punishment,
and extinction. Rewards are used to reinforce the behavior you want and punishments are
used to prevent the behavior you do not want. Extinction is a means to stop someone from
performing a learned behavior
Non financial
1. Recognition
2. Praise
3. Participation
4. Good behavior
5. Job security
6. Training
7. Fair working environment
Theory of Jungle
MBWA:
This is a management style where manager wandering around in unstructured manner to
check with employees or equipment and status of ongoing work.
MIS:
MIS, broadly refers to a computer-based system that provides managers with the tools to
organize, evaluate and efficiently manage departments within an organization
Management Information Systems (MIS) is the study of people, technology, organizations
and the relationships among them.