Notes On Principles Of Management

The organization culture as a leadership concept has been identified as one of the many components that leaders can use to grow a dynamic organization. Leadership in organizations starts the culture formation process by imposing their assumptions and expectations on their followers. Once culture is established and accepted, they become a strong leadership tool to communicate the leader 's beliefs and values to organizational members, and especially new comers. When leaders promote ethical culture, they become successful in maintaining organizational growth, the good services demanded by the society, the ability to address problems before they become disasters and consequently are competitive against rivals. The leader 's success will depend to a large extent, on his knowledge and understanding of the organizational culture. The leader who understands his organizational culture and takes it seriously is capable of predicting the outcome of his decisions in preventing any anticipated consequences. What then is organizational culture? The concept of organizational culture has been defined from many perspectives in the literature. There is no one single definition for organizational culture. The topic of organizational culture has been studied from many perspectives and disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, organizational behavior, and organizational leadership to name a few. Deal defines organizational culture as values,

Training: The employee will conduct on-line training assignments as well as a short time period of on the job training with an experienced CO-worker to get a feel for the position. Once the trainer feels the employee is capable of assuming his/her duties they will begin their telecommuting position. The Employee will be paid at their full rate during their OJT period.

This article appeared on Forbes.com and was written by Dr. Chris Cancialosi. Dr. Cancialosi is the founder of a consulting company that specializes in organizational culture. The article is short, however provides the reader with a very clear and useful way for a leader to conduct a litmus test of the organization’s culture by asking four questions. The questions are straightforward, however they help to explore some of the issues that Schein (2010) presents in his model about organizational culture such as espoused beliefs and values, basic assumptions, and organizational practices. The utility of these four questions is that they are not highly analytical or cumbersome to find the answers to. In fact, they are straightforward enough

When I was in junior high and high school, I worked at a local retail store. During the school year, I worked at the store every day after school and on Saturdays. During the summer I would work every day (except Sundays). This job was very essential to my growth as a person. The owner of the store was a very effective manager and leader. The manager role involves many different functions, but it can all be summed up as: “managerial work involves interpersonal roles, informational roles, and decisional roles” (Mintzberg et al., 1998, p. 1) which requires several skills including “developing peer relationships, carrying out negotiations, motivating

In the beginning corporate culture is shaped by the leaders and by the purpose for with the company has been created. It then develops within the constraints of the environment, technology, values of the leadership, and performance expectations. “The initial culture is altered by the design variables of the company, experiences of the company, management’s leadership style, the structure of the company, the nature of the tasks of the groups, the way decisions are made, and the size of the company. In addition, the developing culture is affected by the internal integrity of the company, the climate, and how well the company is competing in the marketplace, its effectiveness.” (DeWitt, 2001(

Organizational cultures are created, maintained, or transformed by people. An organization's culture is, in part, also created and maintained by the organization's leadership. Leaders at the executive level are the principle source for the generation and re-infusion of an organization's ideology, articulation of core values and specification of norms. Organizational values express preferences for certain behaviours or certain outcomes. Organizational norms express behaviours accepted by others. They are culturally acceptable ways of pursuing goals. Leaders also establish the parameters for formal lines of communication and message content-the formal interaction rules for the organization. Values and norms, once transmitted through the organization, establish the permanence of the organization's culture.

An organisation’s culture is defined as the values, attitudes and beliefs of the people working in an organisation that control the way they interact with each other and with external stakeholder groups. It defines what is ‘normal’ in an organisation, suggesting that it is possible for the same employee to act differently in different organisations. The reason why culture is important to a business is because it gives the business a sense of identity and shows how the people within the organisation view the world and respond to it in trying to achieve certain goals. Also, the culture of an organisation is a powerful force in any

Each company has beliefs and values defining it. A company culture determines how employees and customers perceive the company, client treatment and how the company should react to various changes in the environment. An organizational culture is a mirror of the company leadership. Different styles of leadership ensure maintenance of various corporation cultures. The climate within an organization determines a company’s financial performance. A quality company culture integrates each employee or customer ensuring that their propositions are deemed important. Job-related problems, either personal or work related, are listened to, and the bosses find the best means to solve them. Work is delegated to employees and managers’ work by the employees’ side to ensure perfection (Alvesson, 2002).

A manager’s role is to plan, make decisions, and co-ordinate the organising, leading and controlling of an organisation’s resources, in order to achieve organisational goals in an efficient and effective manner (Davidson, Simon, Woods & Griffin, 2009). Management theories from the past can be utilised by contemporary managers, enabling them to consider a range of perspectives on how to approach problems, make decisions and develop systems designed to reap the benefits of employees exhibiting desirable behaviours (Davidson et al, 2009). Despite the common conception that theories are abstract and irrelevant to practical situations, management theories are grounded in reality (Davidson et al, 2009). Knowledge gained from experiences in the

For the purpose of a deeper understanding on the theories and aspects of management, I have chosen two different individuals who both work as managers in their vastly different fields. Each one has had to developed their own use and understanding of the management skills, and how to used them to improve and adapt the fundamental skills of a successful manager to their everyday challenges.

Chapter eight in our text talks about how “culture, or shared values within the organization, may be related to increased performance” (Carpenter, M., Taylor, B., Erdogan, B. (2009). Principles of Management. Nyack, NY: Flat World Knowledge, pdf page 192) and how those cultures can make or break a company. It is these shared values from those who lead that allow their employees to know acceptable and unacceptable behavior. There is also mention of how a leader’s style can motivate and inspire employees, or it can make employment uninventive, humdrum and cause the employee to be unimpressed and bored. The text also tells us how business culture is invisible, but it is extremely powerful. It sounds to me that James Lincoln, younger brother of John Lincoln who was the founder of Lincoln Electric Company, had the right culture for their business. Right from the start James Lincoln was determined to improve his older brothers small company and help it grow.

1. Developing employee skills is a challenge in almost any environment. What type of skills needs to be mostly developed for EMAL trainees?

To whom do you think is performance appraisal more significant to the organization or to the individual? Justify.

Ans.: In spite of following the traditional management skills, Mr. Vincent was a good and

2. Which of the following is the function for employing suitable person for the enterprise?