XAVIER UNIVERSITY

Ateneo De Cagayan de Oro

College Of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Department

ESC 21
Engineering Management
Report # 1

INTRO TO ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT (ME)

Title

______Feolo Riel B. Taray______

Student Name

__20190017320__
Student ID #

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A. TOPIC
Intro to Engineering Management (EM)

• Decision Making
• Henry Feyol’s Management Principles
• Modern Management Approach

B. OBJECTIVE

• Make decisions in accordance with social and organizational principles.

• To emphasize the use of systematic mathematical approaches in the system with
studying and comprehending the interdependence between all aspects of
management and employees.
• To learn about the most complicated issues that managers faced when managing the
workplace.
• To explore the effects of applying management concepts to organizational
leadership and governance.

C. DISCUSSION
Engineering management restricts itself to the direct supervision of engineers or
engineering operations. It might involve things like supervising engineering research or design
efforts in the company. Every engineering manager is responsible for managing, solving
technical issues, and acting as an overall leader for the organization's engineers.
The most significant aspect of every engineering manager is the safety of the company.
Everything must be categorized and control to ensure productivity. Leadership is an essential
component that influences the success of companies, managers, and employees. Decision-
making is a skill every leader must have and should be maintained. Even in everyday life, "to
do or not to do" is one of the most significant difficulties that a person faces before taking
action. Making the correct and responsible judgment is the ultimate goal of engineering
management, whether in a public or private company. A good leader is one who can decide,
who can solve the problem of "to do or not to do," and who is prepared to take on the burden
of decision-making. See Illustration 1 for the characteristics of decision making.
According to Henri Fayol, the basic components of management are planning, organizing,
leading, and controlling (Brunsson, 2008). He is the one who introduced the fundamental
basis of understanding management where other philosophers have created their own
theories in response to Henri Fayol's understanding of management. He is also known as the
"Father of the Classical School of Management" (Parker & Ritson, 2005). After graduating with
an engineering degree, he became the chief executive officer of a coal mining plant and he

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also recognized that in order for managers to be efficient and effective, they must apply some
management principles when managing their company’s organization (Brunsson, 2008).
Henri Fayol proposed the following 14 management concepts as general principles:

• Division of Work - Implies the division of a labor process into a number of jobs, each
of which is completed by a different individual or group of people.

• Authority and Responsibility – Managers who have more high intelligence and
experience have the right to give orders and has the ability to give the employees
obediency.

• Discipline - Successful organization needs the collaboration of employees. Managers

should provide good leadership to maintain disciplined employees.

• Unity of Command – Employees should receive orders from only one manager.

• Unity of Direction – Each team should be moving towards a common objective in a

common direction.

• Subordination of Individual to general interest - One person's interests should not

take precedence over the interests of the organization as a whole.

• Remuneration – reasonable rate for the work can motivate and be fair to employees.

• Centralization – An organization's management and decision-making authority must

be appropriately balanced or centralized.

• Scalar Chain – Implies that authority and responsibility should flow in a clear unbroken
line from the highest executive to the lowest rank.

• Order – Refers to the best conceivable arrangement to accomplish the organization's

most effective operation.

• Equity – Every employee should be as fair and treated equally as possible.

• Stability of Tenure of Personnel – The important is the stability on each employee.

Any personnel vacancies that emerge should be filled in a clear and efficient manner.

• Initiative - Management should take efforts to encourage employees' initiative, which

is defined as any new or additional job activity carried out through originality.

• Espirit de corps - Employees should be encouraged to be cooperative and to feel good

about themselves by management.

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D. ILLUSTRATION

Process of selection and Decision Making is a

the aim is to select mental process and
the best alternative involves rationality
Characteristics
of decision making
Aimed in achieving Involves the evaluation
the objectives of of available alternatives
the organization and on-going process

Illustration 1

Planning
deciding on ways of action

Organizing
Functions activity and resource
coordination
Controlling of
monitoring and Management
assessing activities

Leading
people management
and motivation

Illustration 2

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E. CONCLUSION
The focus of this report is to understand how engineering management can lead people
to success. The information provides detailed ideas to better understand the basic concepts
and principles of Engineering Management that may apply to our profession in the future.
Engineering Manager needs to have leadership skills and a skill to handle different
individuals. An organization cannot achieve consistency and efficiency if they do not have
any sort of background ideas about the 14 principles of management. Furthermore, it is one
of the greatest goals of every engineering manager and workers to learn these principles.
Organization and all of these principles are likely to be together all the time; they are like
engines and gasoline without the other, one is meaningless.

F. REFERENCE
https://www.managementstudyhq.com/henri-fayol-principles-of-management.html
https://ivypanda.com/essays/henri-fayols-management-theories/
http://dx.doi.org/10.31838/jcr.07.11.25 (HENRI FAYOL’S PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND
ITS EFFECT TO ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE)

https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/cw1ev9e9ib/An-Introduction-to-the-
Principles-of-Management.html

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Intro to Engineering • Recognize EM as part of
Management (EM) the profession and the
• Decision Making industries involved in its
• Henry Feyol’s application
Management • Know the career AUG 20,
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Principles
opportunities and the AUG 27, 2021
typical activities and scope 2021
• Modern of works
Management • Create and deliver oral
Approach presentations on the topic
• Right reflection paper