CHAPTER SUMMARY – CHAPTER 3 The Manager: Omnipotent or Symbolic ✓ Contrast the actions of managers according to the omnipotent and symbolic views. ✓ Explain the parameters of managerial discretion. According to the omnipotent view‚ managers are directly responsible for an organization’s success or failure. However‚ the symbolic view argues that much of an organization’s success or failure is due to external forces outside managers’ control. The parameters of managerial discretion
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is the internal environment. Internal environment refers to the conditions[->0]‚ entities[->1]‚ events[->2]‚ and factors[->3] within an organization that influence[->4] its activities[->5] and choices[->6]‚ particularly the behavior[->7] of the employees[->8]. Factors that are frequently considered part of the internal[->9] environment include[->10] the organization ’s[->11] mission statement[->12]‚ leadership[->13] styles[->14]‚ and its organizational culture[->15]. The environment that exists outside
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successful manager Manager means a person who plans‚ organizes‚ directs‚ and controls the allocation of human‚ material‚ financial‚ and information resources in pursuit of the organization’s goal. There are many different kinds of managers such as department managers‚ product managers‚ account managers‚ plant managers‚ division managers‚ district managers‚ and task force managers. But in different types of organizations‚ they need different kinds of managers. Such as‚ First-line Managers‚ Middle Managers
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com/locate/ijproman Project managers and career models: An exploratory comparative study Karin Bredin a ‚ Jonas Söderlund b‚⁎ a Department of Management and Engineering‚ Linköping University‚ Sweden b BI Norwegian Business School‚ Norway Abstract Prior research has paid little attention to the careers and career models of project managers. This is troublesome for at least two reasons. First‚ project managers are becoming an increasingly important category of managers and today they constitute
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ONE MINUTE MANAGER SUMMARY The one minute manager is a short story which explains the three management procedures or techniques that a manager needs and can use to be the superlative manager that he can be. It begins with a man probing for an effective manager anywhere and everywhere throughout the world. He comes across many of these managers but they are either harsh or pleasant. These harsh managers have the company operational but their employees are not pleased. The nice managers have their
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TODAYS MANAGER NEEDS TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR The top 15 qualities needed to be an entrepreneur and the top 10 qualities needed to be a manager is listed as follows. This is a summary of the results yielded by the most popular search engine‚ Google. Not surprisingly most of the qualities needed for an entrepreneur and for a manager matched. This fundamentally shows that in a way‚ the manager of today needs to be an entrepreneur. It is evident that the degree or extent to which an entrepreneur
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unique for every organization and one of the hardest things to change. MANAGERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Managers and organizational culture are the two sides of a coin where one cannot exist without the other. There are significant roles of managers in order to form or sustain the organizational culture; we cannot take managers out of the equation when dealing with organizational culture. It is the responsibility of managers to maintain and establish a positive culture. A good leader establishes
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1. What is an organization? Why are managers important to an organization’s success? Answer – An organization is a systematic arrangement of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose. All organizations because each comprises three common characteristics. 1) Every organization has a purpose and is made up of people who are grouped in some fashion. 2) No purpose or goal can be achieved by itself; therefore‚ organizations have members. 3) All organizations develop a systematic structure
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Two main groups of changes affect managers’ jobs and are significant to an organization: external forces and internal forces. With external forces‚ the need for change comes from various sources outside the organization: marketplace‚ governmental laws and regulations‚ technology‚ labor markets‚ and economic changes. Internal forces originate from the internal operations of the organization or from the impact of external changes. They include redefining an organization’s strategy‚ workforce‚ new equipment
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Recruitment refers to the process of attracting‚ screening‚ and selecting a qualified person for a job. At the strategic level it may involve the development of an employer brand which includes an ’employee offering’ The role of HR manager in rceruitment and selection is a very vital one : 1. Advertising for specfic candidates required for specific jobs 2. Scrutinising the candidates reumes 3. Short list candidates for interview. 4. call the short listed candidates for interview. 5. rateof
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