Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dr Musarrat Shaheen
• “When organization become large, it becomes imperative for
someone to ensure the company remain nimble, agile and as
fast paced as it was when we were in one city or 10 cities.
Here the role of an HR person is critical in hiring right kind of
leaders who shares the same purpose and vision and have an
entrepreneurial mindset.”
-The chief Human Resource Officer of OYO room, Dinesh R.
Management- Concept
• Management: Management is the process of achieving organizational
objectives by engaging in the five major functions of planning, organizing,
staffing, leading and controlling. The aspects of management are:
Managers carry out the major functions of management
Management is essential to any kind of organization
Management is essential at all hierarchical levels
The goal of all managers is to create and generate surplus
The aim of all managers is to improve productivity (Output/Input),
efficiency and effectiveness
• Management process:
Organization Resources: Labor, Capital, Materials, Machinery and
Information
Functions of Management
Attainment of organizational goals
• Gender
• Marital status
• Tenure
Biographical Foundations of Behavior
• Employees are not too ambitious, seldom take risks and give
high importance to their security needs
Theory Y assumptions
• People can put in physical and mental efforts in work as
naturally as they do while playing
• Tight controls and punishments cannot make people deliver
the goods
• An average person would not only accept responsibility but
also seek it if proper conditions exist in the organization
• If people find the job satisfying, they would be more happy
• People can solve their work related problems by using
creativity and imagination
• Generally intellectual capabilities of an average person are not
properly utilized in modern industrial condition
Theory Z(Japanese Management Style)
• Theory Z emphasizes on building close and trusting
relationships among workers, managers and others
• The central idea is to create an industrial team within a stable
work environment which fulfills employees’ needs for
affiliation, independence and control as well as organization’s
need for high quality work
• Theory Z principles are:
Increasing employee loyalty to the company
Providing a job for life
Strong focus on well-being of the employee both ON and OFF
the job
Scientific Management Steps
• Develop a science for each element of the job to replace old rule of thumb
methods
• Supervise employees to make sure that they follow the prescribed methods
for performing their jobs
• Continue to plan the work but use workers to actually get the work done
Administrative Theory Principles-Henri Fayol
1. Division of work
2. Authority and responsibility
3. Discipline
4. Unity of command
5. Unity of direction
6. Subordination of individual interest to general interest
7. Remuneration
8. Centralization
9. Scalar Chain
10. Order
11. Equity
12. Stability of tenure of personnel
13. Initiative
14. Sense of union
Bureaucratic Management Characteristics-Weber