This document discusses management, managerial tasks, skills, and levels. It defines management as utilizing organizational resources to achieve goals through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Managers at different levels have different tasks and responsibilities. Managerial skills include technical, human, and conceptual skills. Managers are divided into departments to perform tasks more efficiently.

1. Management, Managerial
tasks and skills
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2. Duration: 30 minutes
Presented by
Fahim Muntaha

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Learning Objectives
1. Describe what management is, why management is
important, what managers do, and how managers
utilize organizational resources efficiently and
effectively to achieve organizational goals
2. Distinguish among planning, organizing, leading,
and controlling (the four principal managerial tasks),
and explain how managers’ ability to handle each
one affects organizational performance

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Learning Objectives
3. Differentiate among three levels of management, and
understand the tasks and responsibilities of managers
at different levels in the organizational hierarchy
4. Distinguish between three kinds of managerial skill,
and explain why managers are divided into different
departments to perform their tasks more efficiently and
effectively.

5. Various definitions:
• “Management is a multi-purpose organ that manages
business, manages managers & manages workers &
work”-Peter Drucker
• “To manage is to forecast & to plan, to organize, to
command, to co-ordinate & to control”
- Henri Fayol
• “Management is the art of getting things done through &
with people in formally organized groups”
--Mary Parker Follett & Harrold Koontz
• “Management is the process of accomplishment of
results through the efforts of other people”
-Lawrence Appley

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Management Is…
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Getting work
done through
others

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Efficiency and Effectiveness

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Functions of
Management

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Planning and
Decision Making
Defining goals,
establishing
strategy and
developing sub
plans to choose
alternatives and
coordinate activities

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Organizing
• Deciding where
decisions will be made
• Who will do what jobs
and tasks
• Who will work for
whom

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Leading
Motivating
Inspiring
Leading

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Controlling
Monitoring
progress towards
goal achievement
and taking
corrective action
when needed

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Levels of Management
Figure 1.3

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Relative Amount of Time That Managers Spend on
the Four Managerial Functions
Figure 1.4

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Managerial
Skills
Technical Skills Human Skills
Conceptual Skills
Motivation to
Manage

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Skill Types Needed
Figure 1.5

17. Thanks!
• Any Question?
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