Module No. 2 – Principle of Management Question No 2 a) List and explain the four Basic Functions of Managers Answers The functions of a manager are :- a) Planning b) Organizing c) Directing d) Controlling a) Planning Planning means setting an organization’s goals and deciding how best to achieve them. Managers need to plan so that worker’s activities are consistent with the organization’s goal and the correct type and amount of resources can be acquired. Planning
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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LA PAZ‚ ILOILO CITY UNIT I - PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT ELMA B. TALAMAN JUDITH ABETO DR. CATHERINE SUMACULOB CATHERINE CERVERA Professor Discussants ------------------------------------------------- Every human being has several needs and desires but no individual can satisfy all his wants. Therefore‚ people work together to meet their mutual needs which they cannot fulfil individually. Moreover‚ man is a social being
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problems arose from time to time‚ which were mainly concerned with the management and government policies‚ labour and by-products‚ et.al. For the healthy development of the food processing industry various government committees‚ experts‚ researchers‚ agricultural colleges‚ universities‚ research institutions has contributed by publishing their reports‚ findings‚ recommendations‚ after studying the problems and various aspects of food processing industry‚ which are reviewed as follows. 2.2 LITERATURE
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CHAPTER 1 Operations management Short case: Dealing with variety – two examples The Bombay Tiffin Box Suppliers Association (TBSA) operates a service to transport home-cooked food from workers’ homes to office locations in downtown Bombay. Workers from residential districts must ride commuter trains some 30–40 km to work. Typically‚ they are conservative diners‚ and are also constrained by strong cultural taboos on food handling by caste‚ which discourage eating out. TBSA arranges for food
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Principle of Management - Griffin --------------------------------- Chapter 6 case summary: Bill Ford took over Ford Motors in 2001 as the CEO‚ when the company was struggling with falling sales around the world – in a time when the company desperately needed careful planning and their execution. Bill Ford revised and updated the company’s tactical plans – cutting costs‚ gaining back the experienced staff‚ catering to specific market niches and more. Some of these targets have been
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Principles of Individual Decision-making Name University of Phoenix ECO/212: Principles of Economics Instructor Date In life‚ we have to make a decision just about everything that we do. These decisions affect our daily lives and they sometimes they affect the lives of those around us. When making these decisions there are make factors that go into making a final one. In economics there are four principles that effect how a person makes a decision (Mankiw‚ 2007):
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the group‚ making reliability a group good. It is well-known that purely voluntary provision of the group good may result in a free rider problem: individual members of the group may tend to shirk‚ resulting in an inefficient level of group good. How much effort each individual member of the group exerts will depend on his or her own benefits and costs‚ the efforts exerted by the other individual members of the group‚ and the technic that relates individual effort to outcomes. In the context
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The impact of leadership in motivating displayed by the organizational follower is influenced by a multitude of differing factors‚ such as‚ the leader’s personal traits‚ behaviour and situation. Using various theories as guiding literature; discuss and elaborate on what you feel contribute to effective leadership as well as the consequences of having poor leadership. Chapter 1 Introduction of leadership In the olden days‚ leadership exist as early as the start of civilisation. In the modern
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4.1. Internal Audit 5 4.2. Corporate Governance Framework 5 5.0. Case Studies 6 5.1. Royal Dutch Shell 6 5.2. Royal Bank of Scotland 6 6.0. Application of theory 7 6.1. Royal Dutch Shell 7 6.2. Royal Bank Of Scotland 7 8.0. Limitations 8 9.0. References 9 1.0. Introduction A good governance system in an organization begins with having internal audit function. The value and the need to focus on improving strong corporate governance have increased due to a series
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Operating Decision ECO 550 Briefly describe the details of the fictitious business that you created for this assignment. Allentown Manufacturing Company is a family owned business that manufactures cardboard boxes. Currently‚ the company has a manpower rate of 100 workers that work 20 out of a month. The company has been able to last through some of the toughest economic times‚ but recently the AMC’s fixed cost is “high enough”‚ and their total costs are exceeding their total revenue.
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