Name: Zohaib Ahmed
Reg # 2132072
Program: MBA
Subject: Principles of management
Q#1:- Management can be defined as “a process of bringing about improvement in knowledge, skills, habits and attitudes of the employees in an organization”. Discuss.
Of course we can say that manager can improve the knowledge of employees thorough managerial skills in many ways just like providing them proper information about the overall purpose of the organization and the goals that they want to achieve now and in the future. Manager must provide proper information to his employees for any crisis that are prevailing within the organization or any external forces that are affecting the internal environment of the organization.
The management can also help the employees to improve their skills by training those employees those are less productive or management can setup special training program for them mentoring is another way to improve the skills of employees in which specialized person assist the non experienced or less experienced employees.
Habits of employees can be changed like they have to come at time and their activities will be in favor of achieving overall organizational goals not in favor of their personal interest. In short habits of employees are improved by following the rules and regulations and to maintain the discipline within the organization. Management should make such policies to sustain this process smoothly.
Management can improve the attitudes of the employees towards the organization by giving them rewards and incentives for their efforts and setup some motivational programs to make their morale high about the work.
Q#2:- Discuss the 14 principles of management given by Fayol. Which principle do you think is the most important and why? 1. Division of work:
Managers divide work among the employees to get more production with less effort. In short this is efficient use of employees and resources, those who are good at