Class Notes

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Course : MBA / Sem1

Subject : Organizational Behavior
Day of Instruction : 20.09.2010 – Monday

Unit 1 - CHAPTER-1: Principles of Management

Objectives:
1. Definition of Management
2. Components of Management
3. Characteristics of Management
4. Function of Management

U1L1C1: Definatin of management:

1.Mary Parker Follet,

"Management is the art of getting things done through others"

2.Henry Fayol'
"To manage is to forecast and to plan,organize, to command,to co-ordinate and to control"

3.Louis Allen,
"management is what a manager does"

Thus it can be concluded that

Management in all business areas and organizational activities are the acts of getting people
together to accomplish desired goals and objectives efficiently and effectively. Management
comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a
group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.
Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial
resources, technological resources, and natural resources.

Because organizations can be viewed as systems, management can also be defined as human
action, including design, to facilitate the production of useful outcomes from a system. This view
opens the opportunity to 'manage' oneself, a pre-requisite to attempting to manage others.

U1L1C2: Components of Management:

1.organisational activity
2.Goal formation
3. Goal accomplishment and evaluation
4. Organisational survival

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Good decisions for managing European corn borer depend on several biological and economic factors.
Researchers from several states, cooperating and coordinating their investigations through the NC-205
Regional Research Project on Integrated Crop Management Effects on Stalk-boring Lepidoptera, are
accumulating data to update the European corn borer management models they have developed. Over a 5-
year period, the component of the management model that predicts the time of egg laying for the second
generation has been tested in numerous fields in seven states. In all but one field, the model's predictions
were within 3 days of the actual second-generation egg-laying period.

Simple management models for European corn borer are presented in the following sections with
appropriate examples and calculation charts for reaching a management decision. More complex, yet
easy-to-use, microcomputer management models are available from the Cooperative Extension Services
at Iowa State, Kansas State, Pennsylvania State, and Nebraska Universities.

In regions where intensive management of corn production occurs, European corn borer is usually not the
only pest. Pest management specialists operating in an intensive corn production environment usually are
in each corn field once a week making observations and counts throughout the growing season. These
may be included for European corn borer and other borers, rootworms, cutworms, mites, armyworms,
diseases, weeds, moisture, and fertility. A pest management specialist needs to use his or her time
efficiently. Consequently, adaptations made by an experienced pest manager to the following techniques
are acceptable, as they better suit a weekly routine, without sacrificing data gathering.

U1L1C3: Features of management:

1.Universal process
2.An integrative process
3. Dynamic function
4. Social process
5. Management makes things happen
6.Management is both, a science and an art
7. It integrates the corporate objectives with that of individuals'.
8 The use of objectives provides a basis for measurement.
9 It is management by agreement rather than management by command.
10 It requires employees to manage their own performance.
11 It provides coordination of Long-term goals with short term , Plans of the junior workforce
with the plans of senior management
14The working between departments.

U1L1C4: Basic functions of management

Management operates through various functions, often classified as planning, organizing,

leading/directing, and controlling/monitoring.

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• Planning: Deciding what needs to happen in the future (today, next week, next month,
next year, over the next 5 years, etc.) and generating plans for action.
• Organizing: (Implementation) making optimum use of the resources required to enable
the successful carrying out of plans.
• Staffing: Job Analyzing, recruitment, and hiring individuals for appropriate jobs.
• Leading/Directing: Determining what needs to be done in a situation and getting people
to do it.
• Controlling/Monitoring: Checking progress against plans.
• Motivation : Motivation is also a kind of basic function of management, because without
motivation, employees cannot work effectively. If motivation doesn't takes place in an
organization, then employees may not contribute to the other functions (which are usually
set by top level management).

Key stress area:

Defination of management, features of management and function of management.

Reference:

1. M. Prakash
2. parag Diwan
3. F W Stoner
4. Google search

Next Lesson :

Topic : Principles of Management

Date : 21-09-2010

Time : 2.30-3.15 (PM)

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Class Notes prepared by Ms. Sreeshty khare

Faculty of Management

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