INTRO TO LAB

Menagement

Art of Conducting and directing

Manu agere

To lead by hand

Planning

Deciding what needs to happen in future & generating plans for action

Organizing

Making optimum use of resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans

Staffing

Job analyzing, recruitment, and hiring individuals for appropriate jobs

Leading

Determining what needs to be done in a situation and getting people to do it

Controlling

Checking progress against plans

Management

a process and a systematic way of doing things

Management theories

Concepts surrounding recommended management strategies which may include tools such as frameworks or guidlines that can be implemented in moredern organizations

Scientific Management Theory

Attempts to apply method of cause and effect analysis used in study of natural phenomena to examination of business enterprises

Frederick Taylor

Father of Scientefic Management

1856-1915

Frederick Taylor Year

Scientefic management

Systematic study of the relationships between people and tasks for the purpose of redesigning the work process for higher efficiency

Frank and Lillian Gilberth

Redefined Taylor’s work and made many improvements to the methodologies of time and motion studies

1878-1972

Frank and Lillian Gilberth

Frank and Lillian Gilberth

Also studied worker related fatigue problems caused by lighting, heating, and design of tools and machines

Henry L. Gantt

Emphasized the need for developing a mutuality of interest between management and labor “harmonius cooperation”

1861-1919

Henry L. Gantt year

Henry Fayol

Introduced the concept of management should be an orderly process of tasks and duties

1841-1925

Henry Fayol Year

Bureaucratic management theory

Examines organizational aspects of the company and its workflow to explain how institutions function and how to improve their structural process

Behavioral Management Theory

Focus on performace and interaction of people in organizations

Behavioral Management Theory

Study of how managers should behave to motivate employees and encourage them to perform

Elton Mayo

Helped lay foundation for Human Relation Movement where social aspects are considered important worker productivity

1880-1949

Elton Mayo Year

Hawthorne Studies

Initial atudy examined how economic incentives and physical conditions affected worker output

Hawthorne effect

Occurs when individuals adjust their behavior due to being watched or observed

1868-1933

Mary Follett Year

Mary Parker Follett

Mother of Modern Management

1906-1964

Douglas Mcgregor Year

Douglas Mcgregor

Wrote about Theory X and Theory Y in kaye 1950s and early 1960s

Theory X and Theory Y

Describe divergent managerial beliefs about what motivated employees and has had a profiund influence on fields like management, organizational studies

Systems Theory

Foundation of Organizational Development

Systems Theory

Views the organization as open system made up of interralated and interdependent parts that interact as sub systems

1901-1972

Ludwing Von Bertalanffy Year

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Recognized the need of any organization to interact with its external environment to survive

Contingency theory

Basic premise that there is no one best way to lead an org

Fred Fiedler

Contingency theory

1922-2017

Fred Fiedler Year

Quantitative Approach

Approach to management that uses rigorous quantitative techniques to maximize use of organizational resources

Operations management

Techniques to analyze all aspects of production system

Tota Quality Management

Focus on improving quality throughout organization

Management Information System

Field of management that focuses on designing and implementing computer based information system for use by management