LECTURE OUTLINE 1. What is an Organisation? 2. Who Are Managers? Chapter 1 Introduction to Management and Organizations 3. What Is Management? 4. What Do Managers Do? 5. Evolution of Management 6. Why study Management? 1 What Is An Organization? 2 Characteristics of Organizations • An Organization Defined –A deliberate arrangement of people to accomplish some specific purpose (that individuals independently could not accomplish alone). 3 Who Are Managers?
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For the exclusive use of S. AL OBAIDLI 9-405-009 REV: SEPTEMBER 22, 2005 DAVID THOMAS BORIS GROYSBERG CATE REAVIS Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a WorldClass HR Organization Your business is only going to be as good as the people you’ve got. You can have the best strategy in the world, but if you don’t have effective execution by people, it’s going to fail. — Harris DeLoach, Sonoco CEO In order to make progress, we had to somehow decide what things were going to be the same
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Human Resources Fundamentals • Administrative HR - Suppose you were starting a brand new organization. You probably wouldn't have an HR Department because your organization is just getting underway. Nevertheless, as you begin to grow, you and the managers you hire will need to be concerned about five broad areas that involve people, staffing, retention, development, adjustment and managing change. Together, these five broad areas constitute human resource management or the HRM system, and much
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT By Michael Harding Roberts Table of Contents Chapter 1 - Introduction and Principles .............................................................................. 1 Chapter 2 - Projects and Stages ........................................................................................ 4 Chapter 3 - Roles and Responsibilities ............................................................................ 27 Chapter 4 - Project Definition ......................................
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Learning Point Paper Team G MGMT 386-001 (MW 11:30 – 12:45) Professor Denise Tanguay - Kaitlin Johnson - - Hung Nguyen - - Camille Taylor - - Chris Favot - - Nick Balgaard - Introduction Too often, students are not motivated to learn course material. Much of this is because they find it difficult to relate what they learn in the classroom to what goes on in the workplace. When students find it difficult to relate coursework with their futures
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LEADERSHIP AND EXPECTATIONS: PYGMALION EFFECTS AND OTHER SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES IN ORGANIZATIONS Dov Eden Tel Aviv University The Pygmalion effect is a type of self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP) in which raising manager expectations regarding subordinate performance boosts subordinate performance. Managers who are led to expect more of their subordinates lead them to greater achievement. Programmatic research findings from field experiments are reviewed, and our present knowledge
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Enterprise Architecture Vol. 11, No. 10 10 Key Skills Architects Must Have to Deliver Value by Michael Rosen, Director, Cutter Consortium Enterprise Architecture Practice As the complexity of IT grows, more and more organizations are realizing the need for architecture. But the definition of what architecture is, the titles that architects have, and the role of an architect vary widely from one organization to another. Business, IT, management, and even architects don’t necessarily
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MANAGING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS WORKBOOK A DYNAMIC PROCESS Third Edition John L. Maginn, CFA Donald L. Tuttle, CFA Dennis W. McLeavey, CFA Jerald E. Pinto, CFA John Wiley & Sons, Inc. MANAGING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS WORKBOOK A DYNAMIC PROCESS The CFA Institute is the premier association for investment professionals around the world, with over 85,000 members in 129 countries. Since 1963 the organization has developed and administered the renowned Chartered Financial Analyst Program
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Executive Summary Men and women are entering the labor force in equal numbers but the majority of top management positions still belong to men. More women than ever are entering the labor force but the majority of top management positions in almost all countries are primarily held by men. Female managers tend to be concentrated in lower management positions and hold less authority than men. This suggests that something beyond just sex differences in career patterns must be at work to account for
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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 3e William N. Lanen University of Michigan Shannon W. Anderson Rice University Michael W. Maher University of California at Davis FUNDAMENTALS OF COST ACCOUNTING Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2011, 2008, 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or
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