Management Basics
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776817176
Table of contents: title: Management basics; title: 1. Management basics – Calm Seas case; title: 2. The Manager’s job; title: 2.1 Management functions; title: 2.2 Management roles; title: 2.3 Management skills; title: 2.4 Not-for-profit note; title: 2.5 Questions for the manager’s job; title: 3. Planning – Calm Seas case; title: 4. Planning in the organization; title: 4.1 Competitive advantage; title: 4.2 Strategic planning process; title: 4.3 SWOT analysis; title: 4.4 Stakeholders; title: 4.5 Factors inside the organization; title: 4.6 Factors outside the organization; title: 4.7 Grand Strategy; title: 4.8 Mission statements; title: 4.9 Action/implementation plan; title: 4.10 Not-for-profit note; title: 4.11 Strategic planning diagram; title: 4.12 Questions for organizational planning section; title: 5. Organizing – Calm Seas case; title: 6. Organizing the organization; title: 6.1 Structure follows strategy; title: 6.2 Bureaucracy; title: 6.3 Authority – staff and line; title: 6.4 Bureaucratic structures; title: 6.5 “Rules” of a bureaucracy; title: 6.6 Disadvantages of a bureaucracy; title: 6.7 Changing the bureaucratic structure; title: 6.8 The rise of the “group” structure; title: 6.9 Not-for-profi t note; title: 6.10 Checklist for Team or Group Effectiveness; title: 6.11 Questions for organizing section; title: 7. Leading – Calm Seas case; title: 8. Leading in the organization; title: 8.1 Leader vs. manager; title: 8.2 Leadership theories; title: 8.3 Knowing what kind of manager/leader to be; title: 8.4 Motivation Theories and Concepts; title: 8.5 Content Theories of motivation; title: 8.6 Process Theories of motivation; title: 8.7 Maslow; title: 8.8 Expectancy Theory of Motivation explained in simple terms; title: 8.9 Equity Theory explained in simple terms; title: 8.10 What do employees want?; title: 8.11 Motivation summary; title: 8.12 Not-for-profit note; title: 8.13 Motivation exercise; title: 8.14 Questions on leadership/motivation section; title: 9. Control – Calm Seas case; title: 10. Control in the organization; title: 10.1 What does “control” mean?; title: 10.2 What kinds of controls?; title: 10.3 Measure what matters; title: 10.4 What will we monitor?; title: 10.5 Flowcharting; title: 10.6 Critical path planning; title: 10.7 Not-for-profit note; title: 10.8 Questions on the controlling function; title: 11. For further reading; title: 12. Definition of terms; title: Endnotes