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Title: Management


1
Management
  • The complete story
  • By
  • Norris Dorsey

2
Managing In The New Era
  • Managerial practices will always separate
    effective from ineffective organizations
  • Four key elements are new elements in business
    today

New Era Management
3
Managing In The New Era (cont.)
  • The Internet
  • communication technologies are driving massive
    change
  • initial enthusiasm for e-business has dwindled
  • 25 of publicly-held Web companies became
    profitable in 2002
  • most profitable Web companies sell
    information-based products that dont require
    shipping
  • old economy types now using the Internet as a
    tool to solidify their future

4
Managing In The New Era (cont.)
  • Globalization
  • far more than in the past, enterprises are global
  • competing globally is not easy
  • companies often overestimate the attractiveness
    of foreign markets
  • even small firms that do not operate on a global
    scale must make strategic decisions based on
    international considerations
  • face intense competition from high-quality
    foreign producers

5
Managing In The New Era (cont.)
  • Knowledge management
  • practices aimed at discovering and harnessing an
    organizations intellectual resources
  • unlock peoples expertise, skills, wisdom, and
    relationships
  • intellectual capital is the collective brainpower
    of the organization
  • Collaboration across boundaries
  • capitalize on the ideas of people outside the
    traditional company boundaries
  • occurs between as well as within organizations
  • e.g., must effectively capitalize on customers
    brains

6
Managing For Competitive Advantage
  • Best managers and companies deliver all four

Competitive Advantage
7
Managing For Competitive Advantage(cont.)
  • Innovation
  • the introduction of new goods and services
  • comes from people
  • must be a strategic goal
  • must be managed properly
  • Quality
  • excellence of a product, including its
    attractiveness, lack of defects, reliability, and
    long-term durability
  • importance of quality has increased dramatically
  • catering to customers other needs creates more
    perceived quality

8
Managing For Competitive Advantage (cont.)
  • Speed
  • fast and timely execution, response, and delivery
    of results
  • often separates winners from losers in world
    competition
  • requirement has increased exponentially
  • Cost competitiveness
  • costs are kept low enough so that you can realize
    profits and price your products at levels that
    are attractive to consumers
  • key is efficiency - accomplishing goals by using
    resources wisely and minimizing waste
  • little things can save big money
  • cost cuts involve tradeoffs

9
The Functions Of Management
  • Management
  • the process of working with people and resources
    to accomplish organizational goals
  • good managers must be
  • effective - achieve organizational goals
  • efficient - achieve goals with minimum waste of
    resources
  • there are timeless principles of management
  • still important for making managers and companies
    great
  • must add fresh thinking and new approaches

10
The Functions Of Management (cont.)
  • The manager who does not devote adequate
    attention and resources to all four functions
    will fail

11
The Functions Of Management (cont.)
  • Planning
  • specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding
    in advance the appropriate actions taken to
    achieve those goals
  • delivering strategic value - planning function
    for the new era
  • a dynamic process in which the organization uses
    the brains of its members and of stakeholders to
    identify opportunities to maintain and increase
    competitive advantage
  • process intended to create more value for the
    customer

12
The Functions Of Management (cont.)
  • Organizing
  • assembling and coordinating the human, financial,
    physical, informational, and other resources
    needed to achieve goals
  • building a dynamic organization - organizing
    function for the new era
  • viewing people as the most valuable resource
  • the future requires building flexible
    organizations

13
The Functions Of Management (cont.)
  • Leading
  • stimulating people to be high performers
  • in the new era, managers must be good at
    mobilizing people to contribute their ideas
  • Controlling
  • monitoring progress and implementing necessary
    changes
  • makes sure that goals are met
  • new technology makes it possible to achieve more
    effective controls
  • for the future, will have to be able to monitor
    continuous learning and changing

14
Management Levels
  • Top-level managers (strategic managers)
  • senior executives responsible for the overall
    management and effectiveness of the organization
  • focus on long-term issues
  • emphasize the survival, growth, and effectiveness
    of the firm
  • concerned with the interaction between the
    organization and its external environment
  • titles include Chief Executive Officer (CEO),
    Chief Operating Officer (COO), company presidents
    and vice presidents

15
Management Levels (cont.)
  • Middle-level managers (tactical managers)
  • located between top-level and frontline managers
    in the organizational hierarchy
  • responsible for translating strategic goals and
    plans into more specific objectives and
    activities
  • traditional role was that of an administrative
    controller who bridged the gap between higher and
    lower levels
  • provide operating skills and practical problem
    solving the keep the company working

16
Management Levels (cont.)
  • Frontline managers (operational managers)
  • lower-level managers who supervise the
    operational activities of the organization
  • directly involved with nonmanagement employees
  • increasingly being called on to be innovative and
    entrepreneurial
  • titles include supervisor or sales manager
  • Working leaders with broad responsibilities
  • in small firms and large firms that have adapted
    to the times, managers have strategic, tactical,
    and operational responsibilities

17
Management Skills
  • Skill - specific ability that results from
    knowledge, information, and aptitude
  • Technical skill
  • ability to perform a specialized task that
    involves a certain method or process
  • managers at higher levels rely less on technical
    skills
  • Conceptual and decision skills
  • ability to identify and resolve problems for the
    benefit of the organization
  • assume greater importance as manager acquires
    more responsibility

18
Management Skills (cont.)
  • Interpersonal and communication skills
  • ability to lead, motivate, and communicate
    effectively with others
  • people skills
  • important throughout your career at every level
    of management

19
You And Your Career
  • Jobs are no longer as secure for managers as they
    used to be
  • organizations still try to develop and retain
    good employees
  • employee loyalty and commitment are still
    important
  • Companies offering employability to workers
    tend to be more successful
  • provide training and other learning experiences
  • employees perform work with greater responsibility

20
You And Your Career (cont.)
  • Be both a specialist and generalist
  • specialist - expert in something
  • provide concrete, identifiable value to the firm
  • generalist - knowing about a variety of business
    functions so that you can understand work with
    different perspectives
  • Be self-reliant
  • take responsibility for yourself, your actions,
    and your career regardless of where you work
  • think and act like an entrepreneur
  • look for opportunities to contribute in new ways
  • generate constructive change

21
You And Your Career (cont.)
  • Be connected
  • establish many good working relationships
  • be a team player with strong interpersonal skills
  • all business is a function of human relationships
  • competitive advantage depends upon you and other
    people

22
Keys to Career Management
1. Think of yourself as a business. 2. Define
your product What is your area of expertise? 3.
Know your target market To whom are you going
to sell this? 4. Be clear on why your customer
buys from you. What is your value
proposition - what are you offering that causes
him to use you? 5. As in any business,
strive for quality and customer satisfaction,
even if your customer is just someone else
in your organization - like your boss. 6.
Know your profession or field and whats going on
there. 7. Invest in your own growth and
development, the way a company invests in
research and development. What new products will
you be able to provide? 8. Be willing to
consider changing your career.
23
You And Your Career (cont.)
  • Actively manage your relationship with your
    organization
  • two ways to think about the nature of the
    relationships between you and your employer
  • view yourself as an employee
  • model for just getting by
  • contributions likely to be minimal
  • two-way, mutually-beneficial exchange
    relationship
  • think about how you can contribute and act
    accordingly
  • figure out new ways to add value
  • organization likely provide full and fair
    rewards, support further personal development,
    and offer more gratifying work environment

24
Managerial Action Is Your Opportunity To
Contribute
You
Your Organization
25
Environmental Analysis
Environment
26
Characteristics Of Managerial Decisions
27
Characteristics Of Managerial Decisions(cont.)
  • Lack of structure
  • the usual state of affairs in managerial decision
    making
  • programmed decisions - decisions that have been
    encountered and made in the past
  • have objectively correct answers
  • are solvable by using simple rules, policies, or
    numerical computations
  • nonprogrammed decisions - new, novel, complex
    decisions having no proven answers
  • decision maker must create or impose a method for
    making the decision

28
Characteristics Of Managerial Decisions (cont.)
  • Uncertainty and risk
  • certainty - have sufficient information to
    predict precisely the consequences of ones
    actions
  • uncertainty - have insufficient information to
    know the consequences of different actions
  • cannot estimate the likelihood of various
    consequences of their actions
  • risk - available information permits estimation
    of the likelihood of various consequences
  • probability of an action being successful is less
    than 100 percent, and losses may occur
  • good managers prefer to manage risk

29
Characteristics Of Managerial Decisions (cont.)
  • Conflict
  • opposing pressures from different sources
  • occurs at two levels
  • psychological conflict - individual decision
    makers
  • perceive several attractive options
  • perceive no attractive options
  • conflict between individuals or groups
  • few decisions are without conflict

30
An Overview Of Planning Fundamentals
  • Planning
  • the conscious, systematic process of making
    decisions about goals and activities to be
    pursued in the future
  • importance of formal planning has grown
    dramatically
  • Basic planning process
  • Step one situational analysis
  • a process planners use, within time and resource
    constraints, to gather, interpret, and summarize
    all information relevant to the planning issue
    under consideration
  • study past and current conditions, and forecast
    future trends
  • focuses on internal forces and influences from
    the external environment

31
An Overview Of Planning Fundamentals (cont.)
  • Basic planning process (cont.)
  • Step two alternative goals and plans
  • generate alternative future goals and plans to
    achieve them
  • goals - targets or ends the manager wants to
    reach
  • should be specific, challenging, and realistic
  • should be acceptable to those charged with
    achieving them
  • plans - the actions or means intended to achieve
    goals
  • identify alternative actions, needed resources,
    and potential obstacles
  • single use plans - designed to achieve goals that
    are unlikely to be repeated in the future
  • standing plans - designed to achieve an enduring
    set of goals
  • contingency plans - actions to be taken when
    initial plans fail or if events in the external
    environment require a sudden change

32
An Overview Of Planning Fundamentals (cont.)
  • Basic planning process (cont.)
  • Step three goal and plan evaluation
  • evaluate the advantages, disadvantages, and
    potential effects of each alternative goal and
    plan
  • prioritize those goals
  • consider the implications of alternative plans
  • Step four goal and plan selection
  • identify the priorities and trade-offs among
    goals and plans
  • leads to a written set of goals and plans that
    are appropriate and feasible within a predicted
    set of circumstances
  • scenario - narrative that describes a set of
    future conditions
  • a contingency plan is attached to each scenario

33
An Overview Of Planning Fundamentals (cont.)
  • Basic planning process (cont.)
  • Step five implementation
  • plans are useless unless they are implemented
    properly
  • managers must understand the plan, have the
    necessary resources, and be motivated to
    implement it
  • implementation likely to be more successful if
    managers and employees have participated in the
    previous planning steps
  • the plan should be linked to other systems in the
    organization
  • Step six monitor and control
  • must continually monitor the actual performance
    in relation to the goals and plans
  • develop control systems to take corrective action

34
Decision-Making Stages And Formal Planning Steps
General decision- making stages
Specific formal planning steps
35
An Overview Of The HR Planning Process
36
The Global Environment
  • Global environment
  • becoming more integrated than ever before
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • rules apply to over 90 percent of international
    trade
  • has 144 member nations, including China
  • moved from reducing tariffs to eliminating
    nontariff barriers
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • established by the United Nations
  • has 184 member countries

37
The Global Environment (cont.)
  • European unification
  • European Union (EU)
  • allows goods, services, capital, and human
    resources to flow freely across national borders
  • goal is to strengthen Europe as an economic
    superpower
  • Maastrict Treaty
  • agreement to adopt a common European currency
  • Euro
  • impact of EU is hard to predict
  • Fortress Europe may restrict trade with
    countries outside of the EU

38
The Global Environment (cont.)
  • Pacific Rim
  • important economic players include Japan and
    China
  • four tigers - Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong
    Kong
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  • trying to
  • reduce trade barriers
  • establish general rules for investment
  • develop policies that encourage foreign
    investment
  • holds promise in facilitating and strengthening
    international business relationships
  • member countries represent 40 percent of the
    worlds population and 50 percent of the worlds
    economic output

39
The Global Environment (cont.)
  • North America
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  • an economic pact that combined the economies of
    the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
  • constitutes the worlds largest trading bloc
  • provides access to previously protected markets
    in each country
  • Mexico will have to bolster its infrastructure
    and take care of troubling environmental issues
  • Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC)
    - addresses environmental concerns of communities
    on the border

40
The Global Environment (cont.)
  • Rest of the world
  • globalization has left out three huge,
    high-potential regions
  • Middle East
  • Africa
  • Latin America
  • these regions have a major share of the earths
    natural resources

41
Conventional Organization Chart
42
The Vertical Structure (cont.)
  • Delegation
  • assignment of authority and responsibility to a
    subordinate
  • can occur between any two individuals in any type
    of structure with regard to any task
  • responsibility - assignment of a task that an
    employee is supposed to carry out
  • should delegate enough authority to complete the
    task
  • accountability - expectation that employees
    perform a job, take corrective action when
    necessary, and report upward on the status and
    quality of their performance
  • managers remain responsible and accountable for
    their own actions and those of their subordinates

43
The Vertical Structure (cont.)
  • Delegation (cont.)
  • advantages of delegation
  • permits getting work done through others
  • manager saves time
  • manager frees herself/himself to devote energy
    to other important, higher-level activities
  • provides subordinates with more important jobs
  • provides subordinates with the opportunity to
    develop new skills and to demonstrate potential
  • from the organizations perspective, jobs are
    done more efficiently and cost-effectively

44
Steps In Effective Delegation
45
Diversity Today
  • Diversity
  • broad term used to refer to all kinds of
    differences
  • members of different groups share common values,
    attitudes, and perceptions
  • there is still much diversity within each group
  • U.S. businesses must learn to manage a diverse
    workforce
  • Managing diversity
  • must be aware of characteristics common to a
    group
  • must manage employees as individuals
  • must support, nurture, and utilize these
    differences to the organizations advantage

46
Components Of A Diversified Workforce
Gender
Age
Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States
Other Religious affiliation Veteran
status Sexual orientation Expectations and
values Lifestyle Skill level Educational
level Economic class Workstyle Function and/or
position within the company
Immigrants
Physically and mentally disabled
47
How Effective Is Your Diversity Program?
Very Effective 8
Somewhat ineffective
Effective 22
8
48
Diversity Today (cont.)
  • Size of the workforce
  • U.S. civilian labor force is expected to reach
    158 million by 2010
  • slowing in both the number of people joining the
    labor force and the rate of labor force growth
  • U.S. traditionally had a surplus of labor
  • number of jobs created expected to exceed the
    growth of the labor force
  • employers likely to outsource some work

49
Diversity Today (cont.)
  • Workers of the future
  • until recently, white, American born males
    dominated the U.S. workforce
  • now, they only account for 15 percent of the net
    growth

50
Women In The Workforce
  • Women make up about 47 percent of the workforce
  • 99 percent of women will work for pay at some
    point in their lives
  • Overall labor force participation rate of women
    continues increasing while the participation rate
    of men declines
  • The long-term increase in the female labor force
    largely reflects the greater frequency of paid
    work by mothers
  • Today, 40 percent of multiple job holders are
    women
  • One of every five married women who works outside
    the home earns more than her husband

51
Minorities And Immigrants
  • Nonwhites make up about one-third of the growth
    rate in the workforce
  • Ethnic Americans now comprise nearly 25 percent
    of the total population
  • By 2020, most of Californias entry-level workers
    will be Hispanic
  • English has become the second language for much
    of the population in California, Texas, and
    Florida
  • The number of foreign-born U.S. residents is at
    its highest level in U.S. history (one in ten
    residents)
  • The younger Americans are, the more likely they
    are to be persons of color
  • 6.8 million people in the U.S. identify
    themselves as multiracial

52
Percentage Of Minority Managers
53
Vision
  • Vision
  • a mental image of a possible and desirable future
    state of the organization
  • having a vision and communicating it to others
    are essential components of great leadership
  • the best visions are both
  • ideal - communicates a standard of excellence and
    clear choice of positive values
  • unique - communicates and inspires pride in being
    different from other organizations

54
Vision (cont.)
  • Important points about visions
  • a vision is necessary for effective leadership
  • a person or team can develop a vision for any job
  • many people, including managers who do not
    develop into strong leaders, do not develop a
    clear vision
  • Visions can be inappropriate
  • may reflect merely the leaders personal needs
  • may ignore stakeholders needs
  • the vision must change when circumstances change

55
Leading And Managing
  • Ability to lead effectively sets excellent
    managers apart from average ones
  • managers deal with ongoing organizational
    activities
  • planning and budgeting routines, structuring the
    organization
  • leadership includes orchestrating organizational
    change
  • creating a vision for the firm and inspiring
    people to attain it
  • management and leadership are both vitally
    important
  • supervisory leadership - provides guidance,
    support, and corrective feedback for day-to-day
    activities of work unit members
  • strategic leadership - gives purpose and meaning
    to organizations

56
Leading And Following
  • Organizations succeed or fail because of how well
    followers follow
  • effective followers
  • are capable of independent thinking
  • are actively committed to organizational goals
  • are enthusiastic about ideas and purposes beyond
    their own self interest
  • master skills that are useful to the organization
  • hold performance standards that are higher than
    required

57
Power And Leadership
  • Power
  • ability to influence other people
  • Sources of power
  • legitimate power - leader has organizational
    authority
  • employees are obligated to comply with legitimate
    orders
  • reward power - leader has control over valued
    rewards
  • coercive power - leader has control over
    punishments
  • referent power - leader has personal
    characteristics that appeal to others and make
    them desirous of the leaders approval
  • expert power - leader has knowledge that others
    feel will be of benefit to them

58
Sources Of Power
Power
59
Traditional Approaches To Understanding
Leadership
  • Leader traits
  • trait approach - focussed on individual leaders
    to determine the personal characteristics that
    great leaders share
  • characteristics that distinguish effective
    leaders
  • drive - characteristics that reflect a high level
    of effort
  • leadership motivation - they want to lead
  • integrity - actions correspond to words
  • self-confidence - expectation that one is able to
    overcome obstacles and make good decisions in the
    face of uncertainty
  • knowledge of the business - ability to interpret
    information
  • ability to perceive the needs of others and to
    adjust ones behavior accordingly

60
Traditional Approaches To Understanding
Leadership (cont.)
  • Leader behaviors
  • behavioral approach - sought to identify what
    behaviors good leaders exhibit
  • task performance - leaders efforts to ensure
    that the work unit reaches its goals
  • focus on work speed, quality and quantity of
    output, and rules
  • group maintenance - actions taken to ensure
    satisfaction
  • develop and maintain harmonious work
    relationships
  • leader-member exchange theory - focuses on the
    leaders behavior toward individuals
  • focus is primarily on group maintenance behaviors
  • potential for cross-cultural differences

61
Traditional Approaches To Understanding
Leadership (cont.)
  • Leader behaviors (cont.)
  • participation in decision making - leader
    behaviors that managers perform in involving
    their employees in making decisions
  • autocratic leadership - makes decisions and then
    announces them to the group
  • democratic leadership - solicits input from
    others
  • uses consensus or majority vote to make the final
    choice

62
Traditional Approaches To Understanding
Leadership (cont.)
  • Leader behaviors (cont.)
  • effects of leader behavior
  • decision styles
  • democratic approach resulted in the most positive
    attitudes
  • autocratic approach resulted in somewhat higher
    performance
  • laissez-faire - leadership philosophy
    characterized by an absence of managerial
    decision making
  • characteristics of the situation, leader, and the
    follower determine the appropriate
    decision-making style

63
Behaviors That Companies Want Employees To Exhibit
Companies must motivate workers to
64
Setting Goals
  • Goal setting theory
  • people have conscious goals that energize them
    and direct their thoughts and behaviors toward a
    particular end
  • Goals that motivate
  • goals should be acceptable to employees
  • goals should be challenging but attainable
  • goals should be specific, quantifiable, and
    measurable
  • Limitations of goal setting
  • individualized goals create competition and
    reduce cooperation
  • single productivity goals interfere with other
    dimensions of performance

65
The Consequences Of Behavior
Behavior
66
Understanding Peoples Needs
  • Content theories
  • indicate the kinds of needs that people want to
    satisfy
  • the extent to which and the ways in which a
    persons needs are met or not met affect her/his
    behavior on the job
  • Maslows need hierarchy
  • human needs are organized into five major types
  • physiological - food, water, sex, and shelter
  • safety or security - protection against threat
    and deprivation
  • social - friendship, affection, belonging, and
    love
  • ego - independence, achievement, freedom,
    recognition, and self-esteem
  • self-actualization - realizing ones potential

67
Understanding Peoples Needs (cont.)
  • Maslows need hierarchy (cont.)
  • postulates that people satisfy these needs one at
    a time, from bottom to top
  • people motivated to satisfy lower needs before
    they try to satisfy higher needs
  • once satisfied, a need is no longer a powerful
    motivator
  • not altogether accurate theory of human
    motivation
  • nonetheless, made three major contributions
  • identified important need categories
  • helped to think in terms of lower- and
    higher-level needs
  • increased salience of personal growth and
    self-actualization

68
Understanding Peoples Needs (cont.)
  • Alderfers ERG theory
  • postulates that people have three basic need sets
  • Existence needs - material and physiological
    desires
  • Relatedness needs - involve relationships with
    other people
  • satisfied by the process of mutually sharing
    thoughts and feelings
  • Growth needs - motivate people to productivity or
    creativity
  • satisfied by fully utilizing personal capacities
    and developing new capacities
  • postulates that several different needs can be
    operating at once
  • has greater scientific support than Maslows
    hierarchy
  • both theories remind managers of the types of
    reinforcers or rewards that can be used to
    motivate people

69
Comparison Of Maslows Need Hierarchy And ERG
Theory
70
The Contributions Of Teams
Effects on organizations
71
Benefits Of Groups
  • Benefits derived by organizations
  • groups have greater total resources than
    individuals do
  • groups have a greater diversity of resources
  • groups can aid decision making
  • Benefits derived by members
  • a group is a useful learning mechanism
  • a group can satisfy important personal needs
  • group members can provide one another with
    feedback
  • identify opportunities for growth and development
  • train, coach, and mentor

72
The New Team Environment
  • Definitions
  • working group - collection of people who work in
    the same area or have been drawn together to
    undertake a task
  • do not necessarily come together as a unit and
    achieve significant performance improvements
  • team - small number of people with complementary
    skills who are committed to a common purpose,
    common performance goals, and a common approach
    for which they hold themselves mutually
    accountable
  • real teams are more fully integrated into the
    organizational structure
  • authority of teams is increasing

73
The New Team Environment
  • Managers determine and plan the
  • work
  • Jobs are narrowly defined
  • Cross-training is viewed as
  • inefficient
  • Most information is management
  • property
  • Training for nonmanagers focuses
  • on technical skills
  • Risk taking is discouraged and
  • punished
  • People work alone
  • Rewards based on individual
  • performance
  • Managers determine best methods
  • Managers and teams jointly determine
  • and plan the work
  • Jobs require broad skills and knowledge
  • Cross-training is the norm
  • Most information is freely shared
  • Continuous learning requires training
  • for all
  • Encourage and support measured risk
  • taking
  • People work together
  • Rewards based on contributions to the
  • team and individual performance
  • Everyone works to improve methods
  • and processes

74
Improving Communication Skills
  • Improving sender skills
  • presentation and persuasion skills
  • redundancy - state your viewpoint in a variety of
    ways
  • powerful messages are simple and informative
  • writing skills - require clear, logical thinking
  • strive for clarity, organization, readability,
    and brevity
  • first draft rarely is as good as it could be
  • be critical of your own writing
  • language - word choice can enhance or interfere
    with communications
  • consider the receivers background and adjust
    your language
  • learn something about foreign language for
    overseas business

75
Improving Communication Skills (cont.)
  • Nonverbal skills
  • signals other than those that are spoken or
    written
  • can support or undermine the stated message
  • nonverbal cues may make a greater impact than
    other signals
  • can send a positive message with nonverbal
    signals by
  • using time appropriately
  • arranging the office to foster open communication
  • remembering your body language
  • facial expression and tone of voice
  • Nonverbal signals in different countries
  • need to correctly interpret the nonverbal signals
    of others

76
Improving Communication Skills (cont.)
  • Improving receiver skills
  • listening - good listening is difficult and not
    nearly as common as needed
  • reflection - process by which a person states
    what s/he believes the other person is saying
  • listening begins with personal contact
  • good listening leads to development of trust
  • listening more important for innovation than for
    routine work
  • reading - reading mistakes are common and costly
  • read memos promptly and carefully
  • note important points for later referral
  • read materials outside of your immediate concerns

77
Ten Keys To Effective Listening
1. Find an area of interest 2. Judge
content, not delivery 3. Hold your fire 4.
Listen for ideas 5. Be flexible 6. Resist
distraction 7. Exercise your mind 8. Keep
your mind open 9. Capitalize on thought
speed 10. Work at listening
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Managing Change
  • Organizational change is managed effectively
    when
  • the organization is moved from its current state
    to a planned future state
  • the change works as planned
  • the transition is accomplished without excessive
    costs to the organization or to individual
    organizational members
  • People are the key to successful change
  • people must take an interest and active role in
    helping the organization as a whole
  • permanent rekindling of individual creativity and
    responsibility should be a consequence of change

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Managing Change (cont.)
  • Motivating people to change
  • people must be motivated to change
  • people often resist change
  • general reasons for resistance - arise regardless
    of the content of the change
  • inertia - people dont want to disturb the status
    quo
  • timing - managers should introduce change when
    people are receptive
  • surprise - resistance is likely when change is
    sudden, unexpected, or extreme
  • peer pressure - work teams may band together in
    opposition to change

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Managing Change (cont.)
  • Motivating people to change (cont.)
  • change-specific reasons for resistance - arise
    from the specific nature of a proposed change
  • self-interest - fear that something of value will
    be lost
  • misunderstanding - people may resist because they
    dont fully understand the purpose of the change
  • different assessments - employees receive
    different - and usually less - information than
    management receives
  • such discrepancies in knowledge cause people to
    develop different assessments of proposed changes
  • management tactics - many fail to commit
    employees to change
  • force the change on employees
  • do not provide the necessary resources,
    knowledge, or leadership

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Reasons For Resistance To Change
General Reasons For Resistance
Resistance to Change
Change-specific Reasons for Resistance
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Implementing Change
Unfreezing (breaking from the old ways of doing
things)
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Characteristics Of Controls
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