Mb0038 Management Process and Organisation Behavior
Master of Business Administration-MBA Semester 1
MB0022/ MB0038 – Management Process and Organization Behavior - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1127)
Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)
Q1. WRITE A NOTE ON THE MANAGERIAL ROLES AND SKILLS.
INTRODUCTION
Generally, a team or central organ or agency which is co-ordinating the activities and efforts of the various individuals working together in an organisation enabling their collectively function as a team is called management. The term management may have different meanings depending upon the context in which it is used.
Management has become the key to success in the modern organisation. Every organisation needs to make decision, coordinate their activities, handle their people and control the operation directing it towards its objectives.
It has been therefore seen defined in the following ways: 1.Management is an art of getting things done.
2.Management is a process. 3.Management is a group of managers.4.Management is a discipline.
MANAGEMENT AS AN ART OF GETTING THINGS DONE
Mary Parker defines management as “the art of getting thing done through others.” This definition emphasizes that the manager achieve organisational objectives by getting work done through the workers. It represents the traditional view of management under which workers are treated as a factor of production only. This definition is incomplete in the present context; its deficiencies are as follows: 1. The definition is vague as it does not identify the functions which a manager has to perform to get result from others. 2. It gives the impression of the manipulative character of the practice of management. 3. The employees are merely treated as means for getting results. In other words, their position is like a cog in the wheel. This definition ignores the needs of the workers and does not offer them human treatments.
MANAGEMENT AS A PROCESS
The process of management involves the determination of objectives and putting them
MB0022/ MB0038 – Management Process and Organization Behavior - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1127)
Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)
Q1. WRITE A NOTE ON THE MANAGERIAL ROLES AND SKILLS.
INTRODUCTION
Generally, a team or central organ or agency which is co-ordinating the activities and efforts of the various individuals working together in an organisation enabling their collectively function as a team is called management. The term management may have different meanings depending upon the context in which it is used.
Management has become the key to success in the modern organisation. Every organisation needs to make decision, coordinate their activities, handle their people and control the operation directing it towards its objectives.
It has been therefore seen defined in the following ways: 1.Management is an art of getting things done.
2.Management is a process. 3.Management is a group of managers.4.Management is a discipline.
MANAGEMENT AS AN ART OF GETTING THINGS DONE
Mary Parker defines management as “the art of getting thing done through others.” This definition emphasizes that the manager achieve organisational objectives by getting work done through the workers. It represents the traditional view of management under which workers are treated as a factor of production only. This definition is incomplete in the present context; its deficiencies are as follows: 1. The definition is vague as it does not identify the functions which a manager has to perform to get result from others. 2. It gives the impression of the manipulative character of the practice of management. 3. The employees are merely treated as means for getting results. In other words, their position is like a cog in the wheel. This definition ignores the needs of the workers and does not offer them human treatments.
MANAGEMENT AS A PROCESS
The process of management involves the determination of objectives and putting them