BME CHP 1

Manager - An individual who achieves goal through other people.

Managerial Activity

  1. Making decision

  2. Allocate resources

  3. Direct activities to attain goal

Organization - consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people, that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals.


Planning-  includes defining goals, stablishing strategy, and developing plans to coordinate activities. 


Organizing/Staffing- determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom, and where decisions are to be made.


Leading - includes motivating employees, directing others, selecting the most effective communication channels, and resolving conflicts.


Controlling- Monitoring activities to ensure they are being accomplished as planned and correcting any significant deviations


Figurehead - symbolic head


Leader - responsible or direction and motivating employees

Liaison - maintains a network outside contacts who provide favors and info

Monitor - Receives a wide variety of information

Disseminator - transmits information receives from the outsider to other employee

Spokesperson - transmits information to the outsider on organization plans

Entrepreneur - searches organization and its environments for opportunities project

Disturbance handler- responsible for corrective actions when or face unexpected disturbances

Resource allocator - make or approve significant organizational behavior

Negotiator - Responsible for representing the organization at major negotiation

Technical Skills - The ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise.

Human Skills /Interpersonal Skills - The ability to work with, understand, and motivate other people, both individually and in groups.

Conceptual Skills - The mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations.

Diagnostic Skills - allow managers to better understand cause-and-effect relationships and to recognize the optimal solutions to problems.

Organizational Behavior - A field of study that investigates the impact individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. 

determinants of behavior in the organization: 

  1. Individuals

  2. Groups

  3. Structure

Intuition- an instinctive feeling not necessarily supported by research.

Systemaic Study- looking at relationships, attempting to attribute causes and effects, and basing our conclusions on scientific evidence—that is, Systematic Study- looking at relationships, attempting to attribute causes and effects, and basing our conclusions on scientific evidence—that is, on data gathered under controlled conditions and measured and interpreted in a rigorous manner.


Big data - the extensive use of statistical compilation and analysis