Food Industry Management Lecture 3

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Food Industry Management - Lecture 3

• Managerial and Organisational Performance

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The Role of Management in Organisational
Performance

• Determine how well organisations serve the
  customers
• Determine the success of an organisation in
  achieving its objectives and social
  responsibilities

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Efficiency and Effectiveness

• Efficiency doing things right.
• Achieving the desired results with the minimum
  resources (labour, materials and time).
• Effectiveness doing the right things.
• Choosing the right goals to meet the needs of
  markets, e.g. Producing graduates with skills
  required by the organisations in society.

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The Management Process

• A process is a systematic way of doing things
• Generally accepted functions or processes of
  management consist are
• Planning
• Organising
• Leading
• Controlling

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Planning

• Establishing goals and the necessary actions for
  achieving those goals
• Planning - carefully thought through and done in
  advance
• Actions are based on method, plan or logic
• Plans give organisations its objectives and help
  determine the procedures for achieving them

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Planning Continued

• Plans enable organisations to
• Obtain and commit resources required to achieve
  its objectives
• Members activities are consistent with those
  objectives and procedures
• Progress is measured against those objectives and
  corrective action is taken where and when it is
  required

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How to Plan

• Select the desired goals for the organisation
  e.g. developing a new product for which there is
  a huge demand, e.g. low-fat, high fibre yoghurt
• Determine the goals for the different departments
  of the organisation that will contribute to the
  production of the yoghurt

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How to Plancontinued

• Programs that will enable an organisation to
  achieve its goal are established in a systematic
  way
• (Bear in mind that top management would have
  considered the feasibility of a goal and
  acceptability to employees of the organisation

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How to Plancontinued

• Relationships and time are important
  considerations in planning
• Plans could span over periods of a few weeks to
  several years