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Management Science: Theory and Practice

This document discusses key concepts in management including: 1) It defines management as the process of designing and maintaining an environment for individuals to efficiently accomplish goals working together in groups. 2) It outlines the main functions of management as planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling according to Koontz, and planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating and controlling according to Fayol. 3) It describes organizations as deliberate arrangements of people with a purpose, structure, and goals that individuals could not achieve alone.

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Management Science: Theory and Practice

This document discusses key concepts in management including: 1) It defines management as the process of designing and maintaining an environment for individuals to efficiently accomplish goals working together in groups. 2) It outlines the main functions of management as planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling according to Koontz, and planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating and controlling according to Fayol. 3) It describes organizations as deliberate arrangements of people with a purpose, structure, and goals that individuals could not achieve alone.

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Management: Science, Theory and

Practice

Pragya Gupta
Assistant Professor

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida


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Definition of Management

Management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment


in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish
selected aims.

Efficiency

 “Doing things right”

– Getting the most output for the least input

Effectiveness

 “Doing the right things”

– Attaining organizational goals

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Functions of Management

Harold Koontz: Management is the art of getting things done through

& with an formally organized group. The most accepted definition of

functions of management include Planning, Organizing, Staffing,

Directing and Controlling as given by Koontz

Henry Fayol: To manage is to forecast & plan, to organize, to

compound, to co-ordinate and to control

PODSCORB by Luther Gullick:

- Planning, Organizing, Directing, Staffing, Controlling, Co-ordinating,

Reporting & Budgeting

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What Is An Organization?

 An Organization Defined

A deliberate arrangement of people to accomplish some specific

purpose (that individuals independently could not accomplish

alone).

 Common Characteristics of Organizations

• Have a distinct purpose (goal)

• Composed of people

• Have a deliberate structure


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Who Are Managers?
Manager

Someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other people so that

organizational goals can be accomplished.

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Levels of Management in organizations

Top Line
Managers

Middle Line Managers

First Line Managers

Non – Managerial Employees

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The Functions Of Managers
 Planning - Planning involves selecting missions and objectives and the actions
to achieve them; it requires decision making.

 Organizing - involves the grouping of activities necessary to accomplish goals


and plans, the assignment of these activities to appropriate departments and
the provision of authority, delegation and co-ordination

 Staffing - Staffing involves filling, and keeping filled, the positions in the
organization structure.

 Leading - Leading is influencing people so that they will contribute to


organization and group goals.

 Controlling - Controlling is measuring and correcting individual and


organizational performance to ensure that events conform to plans

 Co-ordination is the essence of managership, for achieving harmony among


individual efforts toward the accomplishment of group goals. Each of the
managerial functions is an exercise contributing to coordination.
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Managers or Leaders

• Good managers have to be good leaders

• Good leaders also need to be planning, organizing, staffing,


controlling and of course, leading

• Managing and leading are closely related. While every leader may not


be a manager, every manager should be a leader. 

Circles of influence vs Circles of power

Influence and inspiration separate leaders from managers, not power


and control

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Competencies (skills) required by the managers

Technical skills

 Knowledge and proficiency in a specific field

Interpersonal skills

 The ability to work well with other people

Conceptual skills

 The ability to think and conceptualize about abstract and

complex situations concerning the organization

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Managerial Roles by Mintzberg

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Management :Science or Art

Managing as practice is an art; the organized knowledge underlying the


practice may be referred to as a science.

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More queries?

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