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Managing and Organizations
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
3:11 PM
• Management, Managing and Managers
1. Management --- is the process of communicating, coordinating, and accomplishing
action in the pursuit of organizational objectives while managing relationships with
stakeholders, technologies, and other artifacts, both within as well as between
organizations
2. Managing
i) Is an active, relational practice which involves doing things. The things that managers
do are supposed to contribute to the achievement of the organization's formal goals.
ii) Refers to the things we do and say as managers:
---- handling, directing, controlling, exercising skill in executive ability
---- the acts done by a person (manager) in charge of controlling and directing the
affairs of a business, institution, or agency
3. Managers
i) Are middletons: they intercede between executive authority, howsoever lodged, and
those whose task it is to execute it
ii) Discharges the functions of managing (planning, controlling, coordinating and
directing)
iii) Is rational in that he/she systematically applies techniques that seek to achieve goals
• Organizations
1. Are systematically arranged frameworks relating people, things, knowledge and
technologies, in a design intended to achieve specific goals
2. Characteristics of Rational Organizations
i) Purpose, objectives, and goals
ii) Sites of action, practice and experience
iii) Structural design, formal roles, and responsibilities
iv) Change is normal
v) Rules are both explicit and implicit
3. Organizational
i) Refers to layers of communication, coordination and control
Week 1 Lecture Note Page 1
i) Refers to layers of communication, coordination and control
ii) Is top-down and centralized power
iii) In many contemporary organizations is weakening due to need for adaptable, flexible
organizational forms in an age of increasing uncertainty
4. Organizations are huge repositories of Rules
i)
ii)
iii)...