INTRODUCTION

TO ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT
ES 70

Reported by: Topic 1

Vince Edward Ortega
Aldwin Apuya
Jules Estana
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What is management?
According to Frederick Taylor
“Management is knowing exactly what you
want (people) to do, and then seeing that
it is done in the best and cheapest way.
- Is a set of activities (including planning,
decision making, organizing, leading, and
controlling) directed to an organization’s
resources (human, financial, physical, and
information) with the aim of achieving
organizational goals in an efficient and
effective manner.
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Management
 is a process involving planning, leading
and controlling the different elements to
achieve desired outcome.
 involves problem solving and decision
making (BM, TM, EM)
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Business Management
 Management of business to achieve its
mission, goals and objectives.
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Technology Management
 is concerned with decision, problems, at
all levels related to the creation and
utilization of technological assets and
capabilities.
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Engineering Management
 management of different engineering
activities, for example,
R & D, design, manufacture, operations,
maintenance etc.
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Engineering Management
Engineering Activities

 Research and Development

 Design Need to Manage
 Construction And coordinate
 Production Activities
 Operation
 Maintenance
 Complex: Involving
 Idea Generation Project Evaluation and
 Processes Management
 Machines
 Material
 People
 Money
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Who is a manager?
 Is someone whose primary responsible to
carry out management process. In
particular, is someone who plans and
makes decision, organizes, leads, and
controls human, financial, physical, and
information resources.
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The Management Process

Planning
means setting an organization’s goals and
deciding how best to achieve them.
Decision making
a part of the planning process, involves selecting
a course action from a set of alternatives.
Organizing
involves determining how activities and resources
are to be grouped
Leading
is the set of process used to get people to work
together to advance the interest of the organization.
Controlling
or monitoring the organization’s progress towards
its goals.
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Management in Organizations

Planning
and Decision Organizing
Making
Inputs from the
Environment Goals
•Human Resources Attained
•Financial Resources
•Physical Resources •Efficiently
•Information Resources
Controlling Leading •Effectively
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Management Process
Planning and
Decision Making Organizing
(Setting the ( Determining
Organization’s the best group
goals and deciding activities and
how best to resources)
achieve them)

Controlling Leading
(Monitoring and ( Motivating
correcting members of the
ongoing activities organizations to work
to facilitate goal in the best interest of
the organization)
attainment)
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Kinds of Managers
Top Managers
- they make up the relatively small group
of executives who manage the overall
organizations.
- Title found in this group includes the
president, vice president, and chief executive
officer (CEO).
- Makes decisions about such activities as
acquiring other companies, investing in
research and development, entering or
abandoning various markets, and building
new plants and office facilities.
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Kinds of Managers
Middle Managers
-is probably the largest group of
managers in most organizations.
-Common middle-management titles
include plant manager, operations
manager, and division head.
-are primarily responsible for
implementing the policies and plans
developed by top managers and for
supervising and coordinating the activities
of lower-level managers.
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Kinds of Managers
First-Line Managers
- supervise and coordinate the activities of
operating employees.
- Common titles for first-line managers
are supervisor, coordinator, and office
manager.
- Positions such as these are often the first
ones held by employees who enter
management from the ranks of operating
personnel.
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Management Levels

Top-level management
(president, executive vice president)

Middle managers
(chief engineer, division head etc.)
First-line managers
(foreman, supervisor, section chief)
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Managers in Different Areas of the Organizations

Marketing Managers
- work in areas related to the marketing
function- getting consumers and clients to
buy the organization’s products or
services.
- these areas include new product
development, promotion, and distribution.
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Managers in Different Areas of the Organizations

Financial Managers
- Deal primarily with an organization’s
financial resources.
- They are responsible for activities such
as accounting, cash management, and
investments.
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Managers in Different Areas of the Organizations

Operations Managers
- are concerned with creating and
managing the systems that creates an
organization’s products and services.
- Typical responsibilities of operations
managers includes production control,
quality control, plant layout, and site
selection.
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Managers in Different Areas of the Organizations

Human Resource Managers

- are responsible for hiring and developing
employees.
- they are typically involved in human
resource planning, recruiting and selecting
employees, training and development,
designing compensation and benefit
systems, formulating performance
appraisal systems, and discharging low-
performing and problem employees.
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Managers in Different Areas of the Organizations

Administrative Managers
- administrative or general managers are
not associated with any particular
management specialty.
- they tend to be generalists; they have
some basic familiarity with all functional
areas of management rather than
specialized training in any one area.
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Managers in Different Areas of the Organizations

Other Kinds of Managers

- many organizations have specialized
management positions in addition to those
already described.
- Public relations managers- deal with
public and media for firms.
- Research and Development managers-
coordinate the activities of scientists and
engineers working on scientific projects in
organizations.
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Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Interpersonal roles

• Informational Roles

• Decisional Roles
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Basic Managerial Roles and Skills

Interpersonal Roles
- There are three interpersonal roles
inherent in the manager’s job
a) The manager is often asked to serve as
figure head
b) The manager is also asked to serve as a
leader
c) The managers can have a liaison role
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Basic Managerial Roles and Skills

Informational Roles
- There are three informational roles
identified
a) Monitor- one who actively seeks
information that may be of value
b) Disseminator- transmitting relevant
information back to others in the
workplace.
c) Spokesperson- relays information to
people outside the unit or outside the
organization
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Basic Managerial Roles and Skills

Decisional Roles
- There are four decisional roles identified
a) Entrepreneur- the voluntary initiator of
change
b) Disturbance handler- handling such
problems as strikes, copyright
infringements, and energy shortages.
c) Resource allocator- decides how resources
are distributed, and with whom he or she
will work most closely.
d) Negotiator- enters into negotiations with
other groups of organizations as a
representative of the company.
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Managerial Skills
Technical Skills
- are skills necessary to accomplish or
understand the specific kind of work being
done in an organization.
- are especially important for first-line
managers.
- such skills are needed to train
subordinates and answer questions about
work related problems.
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Managerial Skills
Interpersonal Skills
- is the ability to communicate with,
understand, and motivate individuals and
groups.
- as a manager climbs the organizational
ladder, they must be able to get along
with subordinates, peers, and those at
higher levels of the organization.
- they must also be able to work with
suppliers, customers, investors, and other
outside of the organization.
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Managerial Skills
Conceptual Skills
- depends on the manager’s ability to think in
the abstract.
- managers need the mental capacity to
understand the overall workings of the
organization and its environment, to grasp
how all the parts of the organization fit
together, and to view the organization in a
holistic manner.
- this allows them to think strategically, to
see the “big picture” and to make broad-
based decisions that serve the overall
organization in a holistic manner.
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Managerial Skills
Diagnostic Skills
- skills that enable the manager to visualize
the most appropriate response to a situation.
- a manager must be able to diagnose and
analyze a problem in the organization by
studying its symptoms and then developing a
solution.
- these skills enables him to define his
problem, recognize its possible causes, focus
on the most direct problem, and then solve it.
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The Science and the Art of Management

The Science of Management
Many management problems and issues
can be approached in ways that are
rational, logical, objective, and systematic.
Managers can gather data, facts, and
objective information. They can use
quantitative models and decision-making
techniques to arrive at correct decisions.
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The Science and the Art of Management

The Art of Management
Even though managers may try to be
scientific as much as possible, they must
often make decisions and solve problems
on the basis of intuition, experience,
instinct, and personal insights.
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Becoming a Manager
Sound Educational
base; continued
life- long
educational Successful
experiences acquisition and
utilization of the
basic
Initial job management
experiences;
continued skills
experiences through
a variety of job
assignments
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Advantages of Understanding Technology in Top

Management

• Really understanding the business

• Understanding technology driving the business
today and technology that will change the business
in future
• Treating Research and Development as investment
not an expense to be minimized
• Spending more time on strategic thinking
• Dedicating a customer’s problem (true marketing
via customer relations)
• Place a premium on innovation
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Why Engineering Managers?

Competition is global and companies need these people

to compete successfully