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Contemporary Management

 

 

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Management is the act of directing and controlling a group of people for the purpose of coordinating and harmonizing the group towards accomplishing a goal beyond the scope of individual effort. Management encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources. Management can also refer to the person or people who perform the act of management.

 

 

The verb Manage comes from the Italian maneggiare (to handle — especially a horse), which in turn derives from the Latin manus (hand). The French word mesnagement (later ménagement) influenced the development in meaning of the English word management in the 17th and 18th centuries.^[1]

Management has to do with power by position, whereas leadership involves power by influence. Compare stewardship.

 

External links Management Courses at MIT Sloan, Open Courseware Research on Organizations: Bibliography Database and Maps (United States) Academy of Management Managing programmers and software development

Functions of management Theoretical scope Historical development 19th century 20th century 21st century Nature of managerial work The importance of control Managerial levels/hierarchy References   See also Adhocracy Administration Administrative incompetence Corporate governance Design management Engineering management Futures Studies Knowledge visualization Leadership Management consulting Management development Management fad Management styles Management Technology Managerialism Managing upwards Micromanagement Middle management Music management Organizational studies Organizational empowerment Predictive analytics Public administration Scientific management Senior management Social entrepreneurship Virtual management Peter Drucker's management by objectives Eliyahu M. Goldratt's theory of constraints Pointy Haired Boss — a negative stereotype of managers Lists

 

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Course Objectives

This course presents a thorough and systematic coverage of management theory and practice. It focuses on the basic roles, skills and functions of management, with special attention to managerial responsibility for effective and efficient achievement of goals. Special attention is given to social responsibility, managerial ethics, and the importance of multi-national organizations.

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:

1. understand fundamental concepts and principles of management, including the basic roles, skills, and functions of management;

2. be knowledgeable of historical development, theoretical aspects and practice application of managerial process;

3. be familiar with interactions between the environment, technology, human resources, and organizations in order to achieve high performance;

4. be aware of the ethical dilemmas faced by managers and the social responsibilities of businesses.

The topics covered will be relevant to you, regardless of your career objectives. In all likelihood, you will either be a manager or work with one in any occupation you choose. In the final analysis, we are all managers of our own lives and can benefit by studying to be better managers.

 

 

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Managers and Managing. The Evolution of Management Theory

 

Tutorials

• Managers and Managing 1
• Managers and Managing 2
• The Evolution of Management Theory
• The Evolution of Management Thought

 

Readings

 

 

 

Historical Development

Difficulties arise in tracing the history of management. Some see it (by definition) as a late modern (in the sense of late modernity) conceptualization. On those terms it cannot have a pre-modern history, only harbingers (such as stewards). Others, however, detect management-like activities in the pre-modern past. Some writers trace the development of management-thought back to Sumerian traders and to the builders of the pyramids of ancient Egypt. Slave-owners through the centuries faced the problems of exploiting/motivating a dependent but sometimes unenthusiastic or recalcitrant workforce, but many pre-industrial enterprises, given their small scale, did not feel compelled to face the issues of management systematically. However, innovations such as the spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals (5th to 15th centuries) and the codification of double-entry book-keeping (1494) provided tools for management assessment, planning and control.

 

 

Given the scale of most commercial operations and the lack of mechanized record-keeping and recording before the industrial revolution, it made sense for most owners of enterprises in those times to carry out management functions by and for themselves. But with growing size and complexity of organizations, the split between owners (individuals, industrial dynasties or groups of shareholders) and day-to-day managers (independent specialists in planning and control) gradually became more common.

19th century

Some argue that modern management as a discipline began as an off-shoot of economics in the 19th century. Classical economists such as Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) and John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) provided a theoretical background to resource-allocation, production, and pricing issues. About the same time, innovators like Eli Whitney (1765 - 1825), James Watt (1736 - 1819), and Matthew Boulton (1728 - 1809) developed elements of technical production such as standardization, quality-control procedures, cost-accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work-planning. Many of these aspects of management existed in the pre-1861 slave-based sector of the US economy. That environment saw 4 million people, as the contemporary usages had it, "managed" in profitable quasi-mass production.

By the late 19th century, marginal economists Alfred Marshall (1842 - 1924) and Léon Walras (1834 - 1910) and others introduced a new layer of complexity to the theoretical underpinnings of management. Joseph Wharton offered the first tertiary-level course in management in 1881.

20th century

By about 1900 one finds managers trying to place their theories on what they regarded as a thoroughly scientific basis (see scientism for the purported limits of this belief). Examples include Henry R. Towne's Science of management in the 1890s, Frederick Winslow Taylor's Scientific management (1911), Frank and Lillian Gilbreth's Applied motion study (1917), and Henry L. Gantt's charts (1910s). J. Duncan wrote the first college management textbook in 1911. In 1912 Yoichi Ueno introduced Taylorism to Japan and became first management consultant of the "Japanese-management style". His son Ichiro Ueno pioneered Japanese quality-assurance.

The first comprehensive theories of management appeared around 1920. The Harvard Business School invented the Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) in 1921. People like Henri Fayol (1841 - 1925) and Alexander Church described the various branches of management and their inter-relationships. In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead (1891 - 1973), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo (1880 - 1949), Mary Parker Follett (1868 - 1933), Chester Barnard (1886 - 1961), Max Weber (1864 - 1920), Rensis Likert (1903 - 1981), and Chris Argyris (1923 - ) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) wrote one of the earliest books on applied management: Concept of the Corporation (published in 1946). It resulted from Alfred Sloan (chairman of General Motors until 1956) commissioning a study of the organisation. Drucker went on to write 39 books, many in the same vein.

H. Dodge, Ronald Fisher (1890 - 1962), and Thornton C. Fry introduced statistical techniques into management-studies. In the 1940s, Patrick Blackett combined these statistical theories with microeconomic theory and gave birth to the science of operations research. Operations research, sometimes known as "management science" (but distinct from Taylor's scientific management), attempts to take a scientific approach to solving management problems, particularly in the areas of logistics and operations.

Some of the more recent developments include the theory of constraints, management by objectives, reengineering, and various information-technology-driven theories such as agile software development, as well as group management theories such as Cog's Ladder.

As the general recognition of managers as a class solidified during the 20th century and gave perceived practitioners of the art/science of management a certain amount of prestige, so the way opened for popularised systems of management ideas to peddle their wares. In this context many management fads may have had more to do with pop psychology than with scientific theories of management.

Towards the end of the 20th century, business management came to consist of six separate branches, namely:

• Human resource management
• Operations management or production management
• Strategic management
• Marketing management
• Financial management
• Information technology management responsible for management information systems

 

21st century

In the 21st century observers find it increasingly difficult to subdivide management into functional categories in this way. More and more processes simultaneously involve several categories. Instead, one tends to think in terms of the various processes, tasks, and objects subject to management.

Branches of management theory also exist relating to nonprofits and to government: such as public administration, public management, and educational management. Further, management programs related to civil-society organizations have also spawned programs in nonprofit management and social entrepreneurship.

Note that many of the assumptions made by management have come under attack from business ethics viewpoints, critical management studies, and anti-corporate activism.

As one consequence, workplace democracy has become both more common, and more advocated, in some places distributing all management functions among the workers, each of whom takes on a portion of the work. However, these models predate any current political issue, and may occur more naturally than does a command hierarchy. All management to some degree embraces democratic principles in that in the long term workers must give majority support to management; otherwise they leave to find other work, or go on strike. Hence management has started to become less based on the conceptualisation of classical military command-and-control, and more about facilitation and support of collaborative activity, utilizing principles such as those of human interaction management to deal with the complexities of human interaction. Indeed, the concept of Ubiquitous command-and-control posits such a transformation for 21st century military management.

 

The Organisational Environment. The Global Environment. Organisation Theory and Practice

Tutorials

• The Organisational Environment
  
• The Global Environment
• Managing in the Global Environment
  

 

Readings

 

 

 

Organizational studies, also commonly referred to as organizational behaviour or organizational theory, encompasses the systematic study and careful application of knowledge about how people act within organizations.

 

 

• Overview
• History
  • Current state of the field
• Methods used in organizational studies
• Systems framework
• Theories and models
  • Mintzberg's managerial roles
  • Rational Decision-Making Model
  • Scientific management
• Organization-focused journals

 

See also

• Organization design
• Organization development
• Organizational Dissent
• Organizational engineering
• Customer dynamics
• References

 

Further reading

• Organisation and Management Theory
• The Global Environment

 

 

 

Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Diversity

 

Tutorials

• Ethics and Social Responsibility
  
• Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Diversity
• Managing Diverse Employees in a Multi-Cultural Environment
  

 

Readings

 

 

 

Social responsibility is an ethical ideology or theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large. This responsibility can be passive, by avoiding engaging in socially harmful acts, or active, by performing activities that directly advance social goals.

 

 

Businesses can use ethical decision making to secure their businesses by making decisions that allow for government agencies to minimize their involvement with the corporation. (Kaliski, 2001) For instance if a company is proactive and follows the United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ (EPA) guidelines for emissions on dangerous pollutants and even goes an extra step to get involved in the community and address those concerns that the public might have; they would be less likely to have the EPA investigate them for environmental concerns. “A significant element of current thinking about privacy, however, stresses "self-regulation" rather than market or government mechanisms for protecting personal information” (Swire , 1997) Most rules and regulations are formed due to public outcry, if there is not outcry there often will be limited regulation.

 

 

Critics argue that Corporate social responsibility (CSR) distracts from the fundamental economic role of businesses; others argue that it is nothing more than superficial window-dressing; others argue that it is an attempt to pre-empt the role of governments as a watchdog over powerful multinational corporations (Carpenter, Bauer, & Erdogan, 2009).

• Corporate social responsibility
• Emerging Normative Status of Social Responsibility

 

See also

• Scuppie
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Impact maximization
• Social enterprise
• Social entrepreneurship
• Socially responsible investing
• Inclusive business
• SA8000
• Shareholder primacy
• Social Accountability International
• References
• Further reading

 

External links

 

• Some groups of professionals have defined their own intrinsic social responsibilities. Here are some examples:

  • csr-news.net
  • Computer Ethics Institute
  • Social Responsibility Summary
  • Scryve.com, see csr ratings for free
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • interrupcion*
  • Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
  • Business for Social Responsibility

 

Artists for Social Responsibility

• American Engineers for Social Responsibility
• Institute for Social Responsibility
• National Association of Socially Responsible Organizations
• International Business Leaders Forum - a not-for-profit organisation which promotes responsible business
• World Forum : international meeting on diversity and equal opportunity in the workplace[1]
• TheSRO* : The Socially Responsible Organization

 

 

The Manager as a Planner and Strategist. The Manager as a Decision Maker

Tutorials

• The Manager as a Planner and Strategist 1
• The Manager as a Planner and Strategist 2
• The Manager as a Decision Maker 1
• The Manager as a Decision Maker 2

 

Readings

 

 

 

Strategy, a word of military origin, refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. In military usage strategy is distinct from tactics, which are concerned with the conduct of an engagement, while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked. How a battle is fought is a matter of tactics: the terms and conditions that it is fought on and whether it should be fought at all is a matter of strategy, which is part of the four levels of warfare: political goals or grand strategy, strategy, operations, and tactics.

 

Etymology Strategies in game theory Noted texts on strategy   See also American football strategy Business biomimetics Fabian strategy Mutually Assured Destruction Nuclear strategy Odds algorithm (Odds strategy)            Plan Notes   External links Some Definitions of Strategy and Tactics What's the difference between strategy and tactics?

 

 

A strategist is a person skilled in designing and planning action and policy to achieve a major or overall aim.

A design strategist has the ability to combine the innovative, perceptive and holistic insights of a designer with the pragmatic and systematic skills of a planner to guide strategic direction in context of business needs, brand intent, design quality and customer values. [1][2][3][4]

An economic strategist is a person who can create a sustainable commercial advantage by applying innovative and quantitative ideas and systems at a sell side financial institution.

A trading strategist contributes revenue to the business in which his team is embedded by developing and delivering innovative trade ideas, models and analytic systems to the trading desk.

Working closely with investment managers, a principal investment strategist contributes revenue by providing principal investment analytics and alternative product structuring.

A sales strategist develops innovative trade ideas and assists in the marketing of those trades to buy side clients.

A banking strategist partners with investment bankers and capital market experts on corporate finance and capital structure analyses to identify and execute banking transactions.

Within the financial services industry, strategists are known as “strats”.

An IT Strategist develops an IT strategy that is aligned with the business strategy to implement systems to give business processes efficiency and productivity gains and therefore a possible competitive advantage.

 

• Introduction to Decision Making

 

 

Managing Organisational Structure. Organisational Control and Culture

 

Tutorials

• Organisational Control and Culture
• Managing Organisational Structure 1
• Managing Organisational Structure 2

 

Readings

 

 

 

Organisational Structures : Introduction

Organisations are structured in a variety of ways, dependant on their objectives and culture. The structure of an organisation will determine the manner in which it operates and it’s performance. Structure allows the responsibilities for different functions and processes to be clearly allocated to different departments and employees.

 

The wrong organisation structure will hinder the success of the business. Organisational structures should aim to maximize the efficiency and success of the Organisation. An effective organisational structure will facilitate working relationships between various sections of the organisation. It will retain order and command whilst promoting flexibility and creativity.

Internal factors such as size, product and skills of the workforce influence the organizational structure. As a business expands the chain of command will lengthen and the spans of control will widen. The higher the level of skill each employee has the more the business will make use of the matrix structure to maximize these skills across the organization.

The Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI) and Organisational Effectiveness Inventory (OEI) measure both culture and climate. They provide a complete picture of the relationship between stated values (preferred culture) and the organisation's actual operating culture, identifying the key factors that influence that relationship (causal factors) and the outcomes associated with this.

 

 

Span of Control

This term is used to describe the number of employees that each manager/supervisor is responsible for. The span of control is said to be wide if a superior is in charge of many employees and narrow if the superior is in charge of a few employees.

Different Structures

The most common organisation structures are:

• Tall
• Flat
• Hierarchical
• Centralised and decentralised

 

Corporate and organisational culture

It is widely recognised that different organisations have distinctive cultures. A commonly used definition of organisational culture is 'the way we see and do things around here'. Through tradition, history and structure, organisations build up their own culture. Culture therefore gives an organisation a sense of identity - 'who we are', 'what we stand for', 'what we do'. It determines, through the organisation's legends, rituals, beliefs, meanings, values, norms and language, the way in which 'things are done around here'.

 

 

An organisations' culture encapsulates what it has been good at and what has worked in the past. These values can often be accepted without question by long-serving members of an organisation.

One of the first things a new employee learns is some of the organisation's legends - perhaps how the founder worked long hours and despised formal educational and training qualifications . Legends can stay with an organisation and become part of the established way of doing things. Perhaps the founder's views about the importance of education and training will stay current; in the course of time there may be a 'culture shift' as new managers move into the organisation and change the old ways. However, a number of legends continue to be important determinants of 'the way we do things around here'.

 

The Manager as a Person. Building Human Resources

Tutorials

• Human Resource Management
  
• The Manager as a Person
• The Manager as a Person: Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture
  
• Building Human Resources

 

Readings

 

 

 

Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization's most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business.[1] The terms "human resource management" and "human resources" (HR) have largely replaced the term "personnel management" as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organizations.[1] In simple words, HRM means employing people, developing their capacities, utilizing, maintaining and compensating their services in tune with the job and organizational requirement.

 

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Features Academic theory Business practice HRM strategy Careers and education Professional organizations Functions   See also Nomenclature Human resources Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) E-HRM References   External Links Human Resource Management

 

 

 

Motivation. Leadership

 

Tutorials

• Motivation
  
• Motivation and Performance
• Leadership 1
• Leadership 2

 

Readings

 

 

 

Motivation is the activation of goal-oriented behavior. Motivation is said to be intrinsic or extrinsic. The term is generally used for humans but, theoretically, it can also be used to describe the causes for animal behavior as well. This article refers to human motivation. According to various theories, motivation may be rooted in the basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure, or it may include specific needs such as eating and resting, or a desired object, goal, state of being, ideal, or it may be attributed to less-apparent reasons such as altruism, selfishness, morality, or avoiding mortality. Conceptually, motivation should not be confused with either volition or optimism.[1] Motivation is related to, but distinct from, emotion.

 

Motivation concepts Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Self-control Motivational theories Incentive theory Drive-reduction theories Cognitive dissonance theory Need theories Need hierarchy theory Herzberg's two-factor theory Alderfer's ERG theory Self-determination theory Broad theories Cognitive theories Goal-setting theory Models of behavior change Unconscious motivation Intrinsic motivation and the 16 basic desires theory Other theories Controlling motivation Employee motivation Drugs Applications Education Sudbury Model schools' approach to motivation Business Online communities   See also References Further reading Maslow

 

The word Leadership can refer to:

1. the process of leading.
2. those entities that perform one or more acts of leading.

 

 

Kouzes (2002) states that "Leadership is not a place, it’s not a position, and it’s not a secret code that can’t be deciphered by ordinary people. Leadership is an observable set of skills and abilities. Of course some people are better at it than others."

 

 

• Terminology, usage and conceptual scope
• Categories and types of leadership
• The Psychology of Leadership
• Leadership associated with positions of authority
  • Leadership cycles
  • Leadership as a phase in human life-cycles
  • Titles emphasizing authority
  • Symbolism of leadership
• Leadership amongst primates
• Leadership as a vanguard
• Scope of leadership
• Orthogonality and leadership
• Support-structures for leadership
• Determining what makes "effective leadership"
  • Suggested qualities of leadership
  • Leadership "styles" (per House and Podsakoff)
• Leadership and vision
• Leadership's relation with management
• Leadership by a group
  • Co-leadership
  • Divided leadership
• Leader relationships with followers
• Historical views on leadership
• Specific theories of leadership
  • Giorgio Agamben
  • James MacGregor Burns
  • Ronald Heifetz
  • George Terry
  • Robert Blake and Jane Mouton
  • Conscious Leadership
• Alternatives to leadership

 

See also

 

John Adair (Leadership Guru) Max Weber's Charismatic authority Chieftain Coaching Crowd psychology Antonio Gramsci's theory of Cultural hegemony Dale Carnegie Dependability Detachment Determination Dignitas Dignity Diligence Discipline Duty Ethics Excellence Fairness

Faith Father Fidelity Focus Foresight Forgiveness Fortitude Freedom Free will friendliness Fiedler contingency model Followership Functional leadership model Islamic leadership Ideal leadership Model Justice Lance Secretan Leader (Scouting) Leadership Character Model Leadership development Managerial grid model Manliness Mercy Moderation Manners Modesty Minister

Morality Nicomachean Ethics Noble Eightfold Path Parent Peacefulness Perfection Perseverance Piety Potential Prudence Purposefulness Priest Professional development Pope Path-goal model Respectfulness Scouting Sila Responsibility Restraint Sacrifice Self-awareness Self-discipline

Self-esteem Self-reliance Self-respect sensitivity sharing Sincerity Spirituality Sympathy Situational leadership theory Social skills, Intercultural competence Three theological virtues Trait theory Trustworthiness Truth Truthfulness Toxic Leadership Youth leadership

 

• References
• General references
• External Links
  • Leadership Development and Training
  • Leadership Portal

 

 

Groups and Teams. Communication

Tutorials

• Groups and Teams
• Effective Groups and Teams
• Communication 1
• Communication 2

 

Reading

 

 

 

 

 

• Groups and Teams
• Guide to Managerial Communication
• Managerial Communication

 

Teamwork is a joint action by two or more people, in which each person contributes with different skills and express his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group in order to achieve common goals. This does not mean that the individual is no longer important; however, it does mean that effective and efficient teamwork goes beyond individual accomplishments.

 

 

The most effective teamwork is produced when all the individuals involved harmonize their contributions and work towards a common goal. + Teamwork Is an old old wooden ship - - In order for teamwork to succeed one must be a teamplayer. A teamplayer is one who subordinates personal aspirations and works in a coordinated effort with other members of a group, or team, in striving for a common goal. Businesses and other organizations often go to the effort of coordinating team building events in an attempt to get people to work as a team rather than as individuals.

The forming-storming-norming-performing model takes the team through four stages of team development and maps quite well on to many project management life cycle models, such as initiation - definition - planning - realization. As teams grow larger, the skills and methods that people require grow as more ideas are expressed freely. Managers must use these to create or maintain a spirit of teamwork change. The intimacy of a small group is lost, and the opportunity for misinformation and disruptive rumors

 

Business Communication:communication used to promote a product, service, or organization; relay information within the business; or deal with legal and similar issues. It is also a means of relaying between a supply chain, for example the consumer and manufacturer.

 

 

Business Communication is known simply as "Communications." It encompasses a variety of topics, including Marketing, Branding, Customer relations, Consumer behaviour, Advertising, Public relations, Corporate communication, Community engagement, Research & Measurement, Reputation management, Interpersonal communication, Employee engagement, Online communication, and Event management. It is closely related to the fields of professional communication and technical communication.

In business, the term communications encompasses various channels of communication, including the Internet, Print (Publications), Radio, Television, Ambient media, Outdoor, and Word of mouth.

Business Communication can also refer to internal communication. A communications director will typically manage internal communication and craft messages sent to employees. It is vital that internal communications are managed properly because a poorly crafted or managed message could foster distrust or hostility from employees.[1]

Business Communication is a common topic included in the curricula of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programs of many universities. AS well, many community colleges and universities offer degrees in Communications.

There are several methods of business communication, including:

• Web-based communication - for better and improved communication, anytime anywhere ...
• video conferencing which allow people in different locations to hold interactive meetings;
• e-mails, which provide an instantaneous medium of written communication worldwide;
• Reports - important in documenting the activities of any department;
• Presentations
• Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Flash;
• telephoned meetings, which allow for long distance speech;
• forum boards, which allow people to instantly post information at a centralized location; and
• face-to-face meetings, which are personal and should be succeeded by a written followup.

 

Business communication is somewhat different and unique rather from other type of communication since the purpose of business is to get profit. Thus to make good way for profit the communicator should develop good communication skills. Everyone knows that in the present day trends the knowldege alone wont be a fruitful one to have sustainable development. By knowing the importance of communication many organisations started training their employees in betterment of Communicaiton techniques.

Essentially due to globalisation the world has became a Global village. Thus here the importance of cross cultural communcation plays a vital role. Since each and every nations haa their own meaning for each and every non verbal actions.

The way we appear speaks a lot about us in business communication. A neat appearance is half done verbal communication. But Developing communication is not a day work, it needs constant yearly practise. Their are seveal way to get trained in excelling business communication such 1. by our own, 2. by practising from trainers, 3. by internet contents, 4. by books.

 

 

Organisational Conflict, Politics, and Change. Managing Information Systems and Technologies

 

Tutorials

• Organizational Control and Change
• Organisational Conflict, Politics, and Change
• Managing Organizational Conflict, Politics, and Negotiation
• Managing Information Systems and Technologies
• Developing Advanced Information Systems and Technologies

 

Readings

 

 

 

Change management is a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. It is an organizational process aimed at empowering employees to accept and embrace changes in their current business environment.[1]. In project management, change management refers to a project management process where changes to a project are formally introduced and approved.[2]

 

 

References

Hiatt, Jeff. "The definition and history of change management". http://www.change-management.com/tutorial-definition-history.htm. Retrieved 16 August 2010. 

Filicetti, John (August 20, 2007). "Project Management Dictionary". PM Hut. http://www.pmhut.com/pmo-and-project-management-dictionary. Retrieved 16 November 2009.

 

Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a major event that threatens to harm the organization, its stakeholders, or the general public. Three elements are common to most definitions of crisis: (a) a threat to the organization, (b) the element of surprise, and (c) a short decision time.[1] Venette[2] argues that "crisis is a process of transformation where the old system can no longer be maintained." Therefore the fourth defining quality is the need for change. If change is not needed, the event could more accurately be described as a failure or incident.

 

In contrast to risk management, which involves assessing potential threats and finding the best ways to avoid those threats, crisis management involves dealing with threats after they have occurred. It is a discipline within the broader context of management consisting of skills and techniques required to identify, assess, understand, and cope with a serious situation, especially from the moment it first occurs to the point that recovery procedures start.

 

• Introduction
• Types of crisis
  • Natural crises
  • Technological crises
  • Confrontation crises
  • Crises of malevolence
  • Crises of organizational misdeeds
    • Crises of skewed management values
    • Crises of deception
    • Crises of management misconduct
  • Workplace violence
  • Rumors
• Crisis Leadership
  • Sudden crises
  • Smoldering crises
  • Signal detection
  • Preparation and prevention
  • Containment and damage control
  • Business recovery
  • Learning
• Models and theories associated with crisis management
  • Crisis Management Model
  • Management Crisis Planning
  • Contingency planning
  • Business continuity planning
  • Structural-functional systems theory
  • Diffusion of innovation theory
  • Role of apologies in crisis management
  • Crisis leadership
  • Unequal human capital theory
• Examples of successful crisis management
  • Tylenol (Johnson and Johnson)
  • Odwalla Foods
  • Mattel
  • Pepsi
• Examples of unsuccessful crisis management
  • Bhopal
  • Ford and Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
  • Exxon
• Lessons learned in crisis management
  • Impact of catastrophes on shareholder value
  • Crisis as Opportunity
• Public sector crisis management
  • Schools and crisis management
  • Government and crisis management
  • Elected officials and crisis management
• Professional Organizations

 

See also

• Common Alerting Protocol
• Contingency plan
• Crisis
• Cross-cultural communication
• Emergency services
• Emergency management
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• ISO/TC 223 Societal Security
• Management
• Management by exception
• Risk Management
• Social Responsibility
• References
• Further reading

 

External links

• Crisis Management

 

What are Management Information Systems?

 

A management information system (MIS) is a system or process that provides information needed to manage organizations effectively [1]. Management information systems are regarded to be a subset of the overall internal controls procedures in a business, which cover the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures used by management accountants to solve business problems such as costing a product,service or a business-wide strategy. Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization.[2] Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making, e.g. Decision Support Systems, Expert systems, and Executive information systems.[2]

 

Overview   See also Bachelor of Computer Information Systems Computing Management Business Intelligence Business Performance Management Business rules Data Mining Predictive analytics Purchase order request Enterprise Information System Enterprise Architecture Information technology governance Information technology management Knowledge management Management by objectives Online analytical processing Online office suite Information Technology References

 

External links

• Computer and Information Systems Managers (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Index of Information Systems Journals
• MIS Web sites (Bournemouth University)
• MIS Links (University of York)
• Executive Information Systems: Minimising the risk of development

 

 

Operations Management: Managing Quality, Efficiency, and Responsiveness to Customers

 

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• Operations Management: Managing Quality, Efficiency, and Responsiveness to Customers
• Value Chain Management: Operating Strategies to Increase Quality, Efficiency, and Responsiveness to Customers
  

 

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Operations management is an area of business concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resource as needed, and effective in terms of meeting customer requirements. It is concerned with managing the process that converts inputs (in the forms of materials, labour and energy) into outputs (in the form of goods and services). Operations traditionally refers to the production of goods and services separately, although the distinction between these two main types of operations is increasingly difficult to make as manufacturers tend to merge product and service offerings. More generally, Operations Management aims to increase the content of value-added activities in any given process. Fundamentally, these value-adding creative activities should be aligned with market opportunity (see Marketing) for optimal enterprise performance.

 

According to the U.S. Department of Education, Operations Management [is the field concerned with managing and directing] the physical and/or technical functions of a firm or organization, particularly those relating to development, production, and manufacturing. [Operations Management programs typically include] instruction in principles of general management, manufacturing and production systems, plant management, equipment maintenance management, production control, industrial labor relations and skilled trades supervision, strategic manufacturing policy, systems analysis, productivity analysis and cost control, and materials planning.[1][2]

 

• Origins
• Organizations
• Publications

 

See also

• Industrial engineering
• Operations research
• Business process mapping
• Lean manufacturing
• Six Sigma

 

External links

• APICS - The Association for Operations Management
• Optimization Problems related to Operations Management
• Apex Body for Operations Management in India
• The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE)
• References

 

Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose. Refer to the definition by Merriam-Webster for further information [1]. It is a set of activities intended to ensure that products (goods and/or services) satisfy customer requirements in a systematic, reliable fashion. QA cannot absolutely guarantee the production of quality products, unfortunately, but makes this more likely.

 

 

Two key principles characterise QA: "fit for purpose" (the product should be suitable for the intended purpose) and "right first time" (mistakes should be eliminated). QA includes regulation of the quality of raw materials, assemblies, products and components; services related to production; and management, production and inspection processes.

It is important to realize also that quality is determined by the intended users, clients or customers, not by society in general: it is not the same as 'expensive' or 'high quality'. Even goods with low prices can be considered quality items if they meet a market need.

• History
  • Early efforts to control the quality of production
  • Wartime production
  • Postwar
• Quality assurance versus quality control
  • Failure testing
  • Statistical control
  • Total quality management
• QA in software development
  • Models and standards
• Company quality
• Using contractors and/or consultants
• Industrial resources
• Scientific resources
• Academic resources

 

See also

• American Society for Quality
• Best practice
• CQE
• Data quality
• Data integrity
• Farm assurance
• GxP
• ISO 9000
• NCSL International
• Quality control
• Quality infrastructure
• Quality management
• Quality Management System
• Society of Quality Assurance
• Software Testing
• Software quality assurance
• Total Quality Management
• Common Test Cases
• Notes & References

 

External links

• Pyzdek, T, "Quality Engineering Handbook", 2003, ISBN 0-8247-4614-7
• Godfrey, A. B., "Juran's Quality Handbook", 1999, ISBN 0-07-034003-X
• http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part050/part050-appb.html

 

 

The Management of Innovation, Product Development, and Entrepreneurship

 

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• The Management of Innovation, Product Development, and Entrepreneurship
• Promoting Innovation, Product Development, and Entrepreneurship

 

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In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) is the term used to describe the complete process of bringing a new product or service to market. There are two parallel paths involved in the NPD process: one involves the idea generation, product design, and detail engineering; the other involves market research and marketing analysis. Companies typically see new product development as the first stage in generating and commercializing new products within the overall strategic process of product life cycle management used to maintain or grow their market share.

 

 

• The process
• Fuzzy Front End

 

See also

• Choice Modelling
• Flexible product development
• Time to market
• Social design
• Product management
• Requirements management
• Brand management
• Marketing
• Engineering
• Product
• Document management
• Industrial Design
• Association of International Product Marketing & Management
• Conceptual economy
• Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)
• Product teardown
• References

 

Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur which is a French word meaning one who undertakes an endeavor. Entrepreneurs assemble resources including innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods. This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response to a perceived opportunity. The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting new businesses; however, in recent years, the term has been extended to include social and political forms of entrepreneurial activity. When entrepreneurship is describing activities within a firm or large organization it is referred to as intra-preneurship and may include corporate venturing, when large entities start spin-off organizations.[1]

Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking, as a vast majority of new businesses fail. Entrepreneurial activities are substantially different depending on the type of organization that is being started. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects (even involving the entrepreneur only part-time) to major undertakings creating many job opportunities. Many "high value" entrepreneurial ventures seek venture capital or angel funding in order to raise capital to build the business. Angel investors generally seek returns of 20-30% and more extensive involvement in the business.[2] Many kinds of organizations now exist to support would-be entrepreneurs, including specialized government agencies, business incubators, science parks, and some NGOs. Lately more holisitc conceptualizations of entrepreneurship as a specific mindset (see also entrepreneurial mindset) resulting in entrepreneurial initiatives e.g. in the form of social entrepreneurship, political entrepreneurship, or knowledge entrepreneurship emerged.

 

History Promotion of entrepreneurship Financial bootstrapping   See also Business opportunity Business plan Entrepreneurship education Junior enterprise References Further reading   External links Starting a Business

 

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