Managerial Job-Descriptive Dimensions

MANAGEMENT

According to Peter Drucker, Management implies ‗Effectiveness‘ and effectiveness involves a set of practices that can be learned. Such practices include:

• Management of time

• Focusing on employees and customers

• Building on strengths

• Identifying priorities

• Making effective decisions

According to Peter Drucker, Management implies ‗Effectiveness‘ and effectiveness involves a set of practices that can be learned. Such practices include: • Management of time • Focusing on employees and customers • Building on strengths • Identifying priorities • Making effective decisions

Managerial Job-Descriptive Dimensions

General Functions of a Manager

1. General Functions of a Manager

Planning - plans to integrate and coordinate activities.

Organizing- includes the determination of what tasks are to be done, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom and where the decisions are to be made.

Leading - management‘s job to direct and coordinate people. When managers motivate subordinates, direct the activities of others, select the most effective communication channel, or resolve conflicts among members.

Controlling - To ensure that things are going, as they should, management must monitor the organization‘s performance.

Functional Dimensions: Henri Fayol

The other activities of a business enterprise that managers perform, according to Fayol, could be divided into six categories:

1. Technical (Production, Manufacturing)

2. Commercial (Buying, Selling, Exchanging)

3. Financial (Obtaining and using capital)

4. Security (Protecting of property and persons)

5. Accounting (Balance sheet, stock taking, statistics, costing)

6. Managerial (Planning, Organizing, Commanding, Co-coordinating, Control)