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Management, 10/E: Powerpoint Presentation To Accompany

This PowerPoint presentation accompanies Chapter 1 of the textbook on management. It covers topics like who managers are and what they do, the levels and types of management, and characteristics of high performing managers. It also discusses how organizations function as open systems that interact with their environment to transform inputs into outputs. Additionally, it examines aspects of the new workplace like how organizations are structured like inverted pyramids and defines measures of organizational performance like productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency.

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Management, 10/E: Powerpoint Presentation To Accompany

This PowerPoint presentation accompanies Chapter 1 of the textbook on management. It covers topics like who managers are and what they do, the levels and types of management, and characteristics of high performing managers. It also discusses how organizations function as open systems that interact with their environment to transform inputs into outputs. Additionally, it examines aspects of the new workplace like how organizations are structured like inverted pyramids and defines measures of organizational performance like productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency.

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PowerPoint Presentation

to Accompany
Management, 10/e
John R. Schermerhorn, Jr.

Chapter 1:
The Management Process

Prepared by: Jim LoPresti


University of Colorado, Boulder
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Planning Ahead — Chapter 1 Study Questions

 Who are managers and what do


they do?
 What are organizations like in the
new workplace?
 What is the management process?
 How do you learn the essential
managerial skills and competencies?
 What are the challenges of working
in the new economy?

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 2


Planning Ahead — Chapter 1 Study Questions

 Who are managers and what do


they do?
 What are organizations like in the
new workplace?
 What is the management process?
 How do you learn the essential
managerial skills and competencies?
 What are the challenges of working
in the new economy?

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 3


Study Question 1: Who are managers and what do
they do?

 Manager
directly supports and helps activate the work
efforts and performance accomplishments of
others.
 Makes decisions and chooses among
alternatives (trade-offs)

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 4


Study Question 1: Who are managers and what do
they do?

 Levels of management
 Top managers — responsible for
performance of an organization as a whole
or for one of its larger parts.
 Middle managers — in charge of relatively
large departments or divisions.
 Team leaders or supervisors — in charge
of a small work group of non-managerial
workers.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 5


Study Question 1: Who are managers and what do
they do?

 Types of managers
 Line managers are responsible for work activities
that directly affect organization’s outputs.
 Staff managers use technical expertise to advise
and support the efforts of line workers.
 Functional managers are responsible for a single
area of activity.
 General managers are responsible for more
complex units that include many functional areas.
 Administrators work in public and nonprofit
organizations.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 6


Study Question 1: Who are managers and what do
they do?

 High performing managers …


 Are well informed of their team’s needs.

 Work alongside those they supervise.

 Provide advice and develop support for


their team.
 Help their people perform to the best of
their abilities.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 7


Figure 1.4 The organization viewed as an upside-
down pyramid.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 8


Planning Ahead — Chapter 1 Study Questions

 Who are managers and what do


they do?
 What are organizations like in the
new workplace?
 What is the management process?
 How do you learn the essential
managerial skills and competencies?
 What are the challenges of working
in the new economy?

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 9


Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the
new workplace?

 Organization
 A collection of people working together
to achieve a common purpose.
 Organizations provide useful goods
and/or services that return value to
society and satisfy customer needs.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 10


Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the
new workplace?

 Organizations are open systems


 Composed of interrelated parts that
function together to achieve a common
purpose.
 Interact with their environments.

 Transform resource inputs into product


outputs (goods and services).
 Environmental feedback tells
organization how well it is meeting the
needs of customers and society.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 11


Figure 1.1 Organizations as open systems.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 12


Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the
new workplace?

 Organizational performance
 Productivity
 An overall measure of the quantity and
quality of work performance with resource
utilization taken into account.
 Performance effectiveness
 An output measure of task or goal
accomplishment.
 Performance efficiency
 An input measure of the resource costs
associated with goal accomplishment.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 13


Figure 1.2 Productivity and the dimensions of
organizational performance.

Management 10/e - Chapter 1 14

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