Basics about management

1. Introduction to Management
Dr. Amjad Mohammed Idries

2. Stop and think
• It is not a management as science, it is a
accumulated behaviour and knowledge lead
to dynamics of best systems to operate.

3. Being a manager of organization !!
• From non-management background (is it good
or bad?)
• All sciences were from personal experience.
• Self-development concept.
• What are the basic/essential managerial
activities?

4. Whole system thinking:
• Used to reduce the potential of unintended
adverse effects;
• Assume that any activity within the
organization resulted in a range of influences
and changes on other elements of the system;

5. Whole system thinking:
• It emphasizes the idea of interrelationships
rather than linear cause-effect chains;
• It looks for examining the properties that exist
upon combining parts into the whole rather
than breaking the whole into parts;

6. Whole system thinking:
Accordingly:
(1) system is made up of interrelated and related
parts (whole);
(2) system is linked to the environment;
(3) change happened for equilibrated system by
applying energy;
(4) players within the system have different
views about functions and purpose of the
system;

8. Definition of management
• Management is the process of
planning, organizing, leading and
controlling the work of organization
members and of using all available
organizational resources to reach
stated organizational goals.

9. Difference between administration
and management?

10. (1) Division of work;
(2) Authority;
(3) Discipline;
(4) Unity of command;
(5) Scalar principle;
(6) Unity of direction;
(7) Interest subordination;

11. What are the similarities
and differences between:
the job of the Director General
of State MOH and the
Manger of Health Center?

12. Manager role (Fayol’s theory)
1. Forecasting;
2. Planning;
3. Organizing;
4. Commanding;
5. Coordinating;
6. Controlling;

13. Managerial roles (Mintzberg’s model)
1. Interpersonal role;
2. Informational role;
3. Decisional role;

14. What are the similarities
and differences between:
the job of the Director General
of State MOH and the
Manger of Health Center?

15. What to manage?
1. Planning
2. Management of manpower
3. Management of time
4. Management of supplies and equipment
5. Management of information
6. Management of activities
7. Evaluation

16. Comparison:
Public Versus Private
Health Care Management

17. What are the Differences?
• Aim;
• Legislations;
• Managing people;
• Bureaucracy;

18. What are the Similarities?
• Need for effectiveness and efficiency
• Clarification of aim and objectives;
• Designing suitable structure;
• Doing essential administrative functions;

19. New public management and health
sector reforms
1. Reorganizing the public sector into more
autonomous corporatized units.
2. Introduction of market elements with
contract-based competitive provision.
3. Cooperation with the private sector and
privatization.

20. New public management and health
sector reforms
4. Private-sector styles of management
practice.
5. Explicit use of measurable standards and
measures of performance.
6. Greater emphasis on outcomes.