JOURNAL MEM209

Complete Name: MARY GRACE L. SAAVEDRA Date: ___________

Program & Year: MAED_EM , 2021 Rating _________

Course Description: System Analysis in Education Code: MEM 209

Time and Date: Wednesday/ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm

A SYNTHESIS ON MANAGEMENT: IT’S NATURE AND CONCEPT

Management is a set of activities (including planning and decision making,

organizing, leading, and controlling) directed at an organization's resources (human,
financial, physical, and information) with the aim of achieving organizational goals in
an efficient and effective manner. A manager is someone whose primary
responsibility is to carry out the management process within an organization.

The basic activities that comprise the management process are planning and
decision making (determining courses of action), organizing (coordinating activities
and resources), leading (motivating and managing people), and controlling
(monitoring and evaluating activities). These activities are not performed on a
systematic and predictable schedule.

Managers can be differentiated by level and by area. By level, we can identify top,
middle, and first-line managers. Kinds of managers by area include marketing,
financial, operations, human resource, administrative, and specialized managers.

Managers have ten basic roles to play: three interpersonal roles (figurehead, leader,
and liaison), three informational roles (monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson),
and four decisional roles (entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and
negotiator). Effective managers also tend to have technical, interpersonal,
conceptual, diagnostic, communication, decision making, and time management
skills. The manager's job is characterized by varied, unpredictable, nonroutine, and
fragmented work, often performed at a relentless pace. Managers also receive a
variety of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.
The effective practice of management requires a synthesis of science and art; that is,
a blend of rational objectivity and intuitive insight. Most managers attain their skills
and positions through a combination of education and experience.

Management processes are applicable in a wide variety of settings, including profit-

seeking organizations (large, small, and start-up businesses and international
businesses) and not-for-profit organizations (government organizations, educational
organizations, healthcare facilities, and nontraditional organizations).
REFLECTION ON MANAGEMENT: IT’S NATURE AND CONCEPT

I learned that good and effective management is vital to the dynamics of a forward
moving society. This is true in all organizations, including business and government.
Society could function with ineffective managers and management to some extent
but not to its optimum. 'Good' management can map out a path to success whereas
poor management may lead to failure and possible collapse. By considering the
roles of a successful manager we can learn that they are carried out continually in
society and it is in fact managers that implement them. French managerial scholar
Henri Fayol identified the roles of a successful manager. The "process approach"
identifies these. It states that managers perform four main roles, those of planning,
organizing, leading and controlling (Robbins, Coulter, 2003). Every management
decision is a result of the application of one or more of these roles. Without a
manager to plan, organize, lead and control an organization, what would be the
effect on society? Considering a manager's fulfillment of these basic four roles and
the impact these have on society will provide us with an understanding that, as
Henry Mintzberg stated, "No job is more vital to society than that of the manager."

One of the most important activities is to understand how people should

behave in organizations. I learned that the n a t u r e o f m a n a g e m e n t i s
m a i n l y p o w e r , i n f l u e n c e a n d o f c o u r s e , leadership. Managing has been
essential to ensure coordination of every people’s effort; whether it’s for a
group work project or for a larger society. And as society has to come to
rely increasingly on group effort, many are being performed in large tasks and
the rising importance of skills a n d e x p e r t i s e r e q u i r e d t o a c h i e v e
r o l e s i n v o l v i n g l e a d e r s h i p responsibilities. I’ve also learned about
how being an effective leader involve working with other people’s goals and
motivations, which you can also learn from other people. Leadership leads you
to listen to others to understand them.

Management uses resources to accomplish results; leadership motivates people to

achieve objectives. Managing is impersonal and can be demeaning. It presumes that
those being managed don't have ideas and feelings and must be told what to do and
how to do it. Management is appropriate for handling inanimate objects or routine
jobs. However, people like to be motivated to accomplish more challenging tasks,
and they do not like being herded and directed as if they were so many cattle.

Most of us sought development careers because we like to do creative and

challenging things. We also like to see the results of our labors, particularly when our
goals work the way we intended. As a leader, you will probably have to manage at
least some routine work. That is the only way to consistently produce truly superior
results.
One principal distinction between leaders and managers is that managers direct
people to obey their orders while leaders lead them. So, leadership is intensely
personal. It is not something that you can order and it is not something that you can
measure, evaluate, and test. It is a property like loyalty or trust. It cannot be bought
or inherited. It must be earned, and earned through long and often painful
experience. It can, however, be lost in an instant. All you need to do is to stop
behaving like a leader. Then your followers will stop following. They may continue to
obey you, but you will soon sense that you no longer have their loyalty and trust. You
can only tell if you are a leader by what happens: you are leading and they are
following their leader.

What sets leaders apart from everyone else is that they have followers, and what
attracts followers is a challenging and rewarding goal. It is impossible to be an
effective leader without being committed to a cause that animates you and motivates
your followers. Your energy and drive then come from your personal commitment to
accomplish this objective.

This can't be just any goal—it must be something that you feel strongly about and
will strive to accomplish. You must be sufficiently committed to this goal so that you
can exhort your organization to achieve it, in spite of all obstacles. While
development projects can have this character, that is not always the case. But, as
we shall see, it is usually possible to excite creative people about the challenges and
rewards of producing something entirely new and original.
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