CBME Compiled Prelim
CBME Compiled Prelim
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Human Being
• Common fate:
> the reality of temporal, transient earthly existence
> the need to make lives good for the body and soul
• Essential Components:
>BODY
>INTELLECT
>EMOTION
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Good Life
How?
1. Environment must necessarily be hospitable to
the development of the 3 essential components
2. Man must exert all efforts to make the
environment hospitable
Essence of Human Development
man is able to nurture his essential and basic
components in an environment w/c he
strives to make as possible for his development
Component 5: Values/assumptions
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
>concerned with the effective and efficient supply of
scarce resources, and the consequent output of
useful products
PERSONNEL
DEVELOPMENT
Factors that could affect the management of
a firm:
2. SOCIO-CULTURAL
-influence both the firm’s external environment as
well as its internal system
DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE:
-credits to Geert Hofstede
1. Individualism
– extent that people in a culture define
themselves primarily as individuals rather than as
part of one or more groups
DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE
2. Collectivism – characterized by tight social framework
in which people tend to base their identities on the
group where they belong
3. Power Distance/ Orientation to Authority
-extent to which people accept as normal an unequal
distribution of power
4. Uncertainty Avoidance/Preference for Stability
-extent to which people feel threatened by unknown
situations and prefer to be in clear and ambiguous
situation
DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE
5. Masculinity/ Assertiveness/ Materialism
-extent to which the dominant values in a society
emphasize aggressiveness and the acquisition of
money and other possession
6. Long-term Orientation – includes forecasting on the
future, working on projects that have distant payoff
7. Short-term orientation – more oriented toward the
past and the present and includes respect for
traditions and social obligations
4 SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS
1. The legacy of the frontier –a spirit that has
fostered a sense of opportunity
2. Faith in business and in individual
3. Belief in Change
4. Idea of competition
Remember:
Many management principles, techniques and
practices which are effective in one culture cannot
easily be transplanted into another culture.
Factors that could affect the management of a firm:
3. ECONOMIC
a. Market Size - is the total number of likely buyers of product or service within a given
market.
b. Central Banking system and monetary policy
c. Fiscal Policy - is concern with the level of government spending as well as the taxing
system.
d. Economic Stability
e. Organization of Capital Markets
f. Factor Endowment - is commonly understood to be the amount of land, labor, capital, and
entrepreneurship that a country possesses and can exploit for manufacturing.
STRATEGY
-embracing the role of corporate
STRUCTURE
culture, shared values and beliefs in the
success of an SYSTEMS organization
-had long-term plans than the
SKILLS
Americans STAFF
STYLE
SHARED VALUES
THE RISE OF JAPANESE-ORIENTED
MANAGEMENT STYLE IN 1970s
Kenichi Ohmae
-The Mind of the Strategist
-reiterated that a strategy should not be too
analytical but should be more of a creative art
-a combination of intuition and flexibility
-in contrast to a step-by-step
process and procedures
THE RISE OF JAPANESE-ORIENTED
MANAGEMENT STYLE IN 1970s
8 keys to succeed according to Tom Peters and Robert Waterman
a. Customer Focus – the company should know and
understand the customers
b. Action-oriented – the company should implement the
strategies not just mere paperwork and plans without action
c. Entrepreneurship- the company should exude an
entrepreneurial spirit: INNOVATE and CREATE
d. Simplicity – not make things complicated
e. Stick to what the company knows best
THE RISE OF JAPANESE-ORIENTED
MANAGEMENT STYLE IN 1970s
f. Value-oriented – management advocates
corporate values throughout the organization
g. People-oriented – the company should
respect and motivate its people and in turn,
they will be productive at work
h. Centralize and Decentralize – the company
centralizes its control but also allows
autonomy in each business unit
THE RISE OF JAPANESE-ORIENTED
MANAGEMENT STYLE IN 1970s
Kaizen
-a system of continuous improvement
-introduced by Masaaki Imai
- introduced the 5S* of lean manufacturing
*a tool in organizing the workplace in a
clean, efficient and safe manner to enhance
productivity, visual management and to
ensure the introduction of standardized working
5S
Seiri Sort (Classify)
Seiton Straighten(Simplify)
Standardize Seiketsu
(Stabilize)
Shitsuke
Sustain
THE COMPETITIVE EDGE
Strategic Architecture Concept
-introduced by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
-leading with obsession
-introduced the concept of Core Competency*
*a detail of what the company has or can
do better than its competitors
THE COMPETITIVE EDGE
MBWA
-Management By Walking Around
-conceptualized by Dave Packard and Bill
Hewlett
-visiting not only customers but also
employees and suppliers
THE COMPETITIVE EDGE
3Gs of Honda
- a similar concept of MBWA
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