Q You may be wondering why you need to study management. If you are majoring in computer engineering, software engineering, accounting or any field other than management, you may not understand how studying management is going to help you in your career. On this background, define management and explain the value of studying management. A Management is an activity to create and maintain favorable environment where the members of the organization can work together to achieve the objectives efficiently and effectively. A manager is responsible of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the daily organizational activities. A manager of an organization has to understand the value of the organization. Being in a technical organization, a manager should understand the value of their team and how they are working on a product and service. Management enables the proper functionality of an organization, either IT or any other fields. Values of studying management: • Universality of management: ® Management skills are required in every type of organizations, either an IT organization or of any field. Employee of all level in an organization should have management skill in every action they perform. • Reality of work ® Every person either manage or be managed in an organization. They are responsible for the challenges that arises in the organization. So, the key skill of management is very essential. ® For example: A software engineer after being in a senior level gets promoted to project manager. At that point, they must have managerial skill to manage the projects. • Self-Employment ® When a person run their own business (IT company in this case) rather than working for others, they must be managing every action that occurs. So, management skill is key requirement to be-your-own-boss. • Benefits ® Managerial skills help a manager/employee in critical thinking and problem-solving opportunities. They can help other in this case and be support for others. • Multi-disciplinary ® No career is pre-destined. So, having management skill will always be favorable during a multi-disciplinary approach. Having key managerial skills can contribute to business of any field. Q Organizational culture defines shared values and norms within an organization. Different organizations have their own culture, culture unite all the members in the organization. Many issues related to organizational culture are discussed in today’s business world. In this sense, describe some current issues in organizational culture. A Organizational culture are the important aspects in an organization. They are the collection of values, overall company lifestyle, expectations, and variety of element that makes an organization what it is. Organization should recognize various factors that reflect what the company is all about. There are good and bad type of organizational culture. Good organizational culture is based on strongly held and widely shared beliefs supported by strategy and structure. Whereas, bad organizational culture is based on the hostile and unpleasant workplace experience that makes the workers less loyal and less dedicated to company beliefs. The issues related to organizational culture in present are: Þ Poor Communication: Employees of different level may not communicate with each other and not feel comfortable with each other. Þ Poor leadership Lower-level employees doesn’t have much respect for their leader if their leader doesn’t have much idea what they are doing. A leader must be expert in everything he/she is doing. Þ Employees are voice-less Opinions of lower-level employees are not often heard and taken in value. Higher- level employees act as the superior and take control of everything that happen in an organization. Þ No rewards Employees aren’t properly appreciated and rewarded for their effort they show in their organization.