COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
ASSESMENT OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICE AT THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY
By:-
Abenezer Asfaw BPR/1824/04
To be submitted to : Ato Abera Demsis
Table of content
Contents Page
Chapter – One
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Management practice is arguably the most important thing a college or university does, enabling all of its core activities of teaching, research and wider social and economic service to be optimally achieved. It involves a thorough knowledge of the institution’s present strengths and weaknesses and the making of choices about the future. Good analysis and intelligent choices will ensure the exploitation of opportunities, the avoidance of disaster and improved reputational positioning. Above all it will help to structure the experience and commitment of the people who work for and with the college, giving them a source of personal as well as collective pride. Management practice is a constructive and creative, if not to say a vital element of the independence as well as of the effectiveness of a college or a university.
Management practice is the role and functions of a manager and the principles, concepts and techniques used by managers in carrying out their work.
The development of principles and concepts of management encouraged the formalization of schools of business during the Twentieth Century. Since Frederick Winslow Taylor published the principles of scientific management in 1911, organizations have been trying to follow formalized sets of best practices. His principles of scientific management initiated a revolution in how we viewed both the process and position of the manager. Many of the early writers in management contended that there was a right way of