UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Dep’t Of Civil Engineering

Construction Management
Chapter one

Introduction to management
Overview

Management is one of the most important human

activities.
Management is human efforts are to be undertaken
collectively to achieve specific goals.
No group activity can succeed without management
Definition & meaning
there is no single & comprehensive
meaning & definition of management
due its various aspect
Meaning

The word management has several meaning

 Management refers to a group of people who are
responsible for guiding and controlling the organization
(managerial personnel).
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 Management is a body of knowledge, a discipline.

 Management is the process of running an organization
(planning, organizing, staffing,

directing/leading and controlling).

Definition of management

 Management is the art of getting things done through

and with people in a formal organized group.

 management is the process of coordinating all resources
through the five major functions of planning,
organizing, staffing , directing/leading and controlling
to achieve organizational goal.
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 management theories over the world has both
theoretical & applied contributors. These:
 Early contribution
Industrial era contribution
Classical contribution
Behavioral contribution
Quantitative contribution
System perspectives
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Frederick W. Taylor (1856 - 1915) is father of

Scientific Management and assumed that there is
'' One Best Way of Doing a Thing''.
Managerial Functions

 Planning: involves setting visions, missions and

goals of organizations or projects or programs together
with the activities to achieve them.
 All levels of managers develop goals that corresponds to
the efforts of the top management overall goals and
strategy.
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Organizing
 process of arranging people and physical resources to
carryout plans & accomplishes organizational objectives
 This helps how responsibilities of individuals who are
required to execute the works are defined and staffing
and directing can be performed
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 Such things can easily be shown by the use of

Organization Chart.
 Organization makes sure the flow of information
resources and tasks logically and efficiently.
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Implementing
 the actual work is executed.

 This helps in executing the task defined in the

planning stage with proper organization system
together with monitoring quality, time and cost of the
works.
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 Proper inspection and supervision, recording data of

executed works, availing all necessary resources at the

right place and at the right time with their proper

coordination are necessary to achieve the required goal

efficiently and successfully.

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 The most important aspect in implementation of

works is leading / directing.
 Leading is the act of motivating or causing people to
perform certain tasks intended to achieve specified
objectives.
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Monitoring & Evaluation.

 Monitoring is the process by which executives and
legislatives determine or evaluate whether organizational
objectives are being achieved and actual operations are
in consistent with plans or not.
 This helps for checking mechanism and used as a feed
back for future planning
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 Effective management can take place when proper

planning, organizing, implementing, continuous
communication, feed back for monitoring purpose and
future planning are carried out successfully.
Managerial roles
Managerial role may classified into interpersonal,
information and decision making role.
Management scopes and levels
 relatively large organizations possess three
levels of management
 Top level
 Middle level
 Lower level
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