Engineering Management

• Cebu Institute of Technology – University College of Engineering and Architecture Department of Industrial Engineering courseware ES034: Engineering Management includes the first week titled "Introduction to Management" which provides an overview of the four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
• Corporate governance and top management accountability are important topics that require all managers to accept personal responsibility for doing the "right" things.
• Ethics self-governance is the process of fulfilling performance accountabilities in an ethical and socially responsible manner.
• Management is the process of working with and through others to achieve organizational objectives in a changing environment.
• Central to the management process is the effective and efficient use of limited resources.
• An engineer is a person who builds, tests, and oversees the production of structures, machines, and devices.
• A manager is a person who develops plans and schedules for reaching technical goals, such as new product development.
• Management is a people-centered profession that depends on the skills of a team of people.
• An engineer depends solely on his technical skills.
• A manager depends on the skills of his team of people.
• An engineer concentrates on the task at hand.
• A manager looks at a task from the point of view of the value it adds, and the interest of stakeholders.
• The four functions of management are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
• These functions are what the work of management is about.
• Management ethics and social responsibility are important aspects of the management process.
• Management ethics refers to the standards of behavior expected of managers.
• Social responsibility in management is the obligation to consider the impact of decisions on society.
• Management ethics and social responsibility are part of the management process.
• First-line managers report to middle managers and supervise nonmanagerial workers, with typical job titles including department head, team leader, and supervisor.
• Management is the process of working with and through others to achieve organizational objectives in a changing environment.
• Organizations are unique social phenomena that enable their members to perform tasks far beyond the reach of individual accomplishment.
• An organization is a collection of people working together to achieve a common purpose.
• Managers can be found in all organizations with a wide variety of job titles such as team leader, department head, supervisor, project manager, president, administrator, and more.
• Managers are people in organizations who directly support, supervise, and help activate the work efforts and performance accomplishments of others.
• Organizations are open systems that interact with their environments in a continual process of obtaining resource inputs and transforming them into outputs.
• Middle managers are in charge of relatively large departments or divisions consisting of several smaller work units, work with top managers, coordinate with peers, and support lower levels to develop and pursue action plans that implement organizational strategies to accomplish key objectives.
• Top managers guide the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts, set objectives and strategy, scan environment, plan and make decisions and lead the organization consistent with its purpose and mission.
• Managers in high-performing organizations don’t treat people as costs to be controlled; they treat them as valuable strategic assets to be carefully nurtured and developed.
• Organizations create value when they use resources well to produce good products and take care of their customers.
• Organizations of all sizes and types make up the life of any community, from large corporations to small businesses, and nonprofit organizations such as schools, government agencies, and community hospitals.
• When operations add value to the original cost of resource inputs, a business organization can earn a profit or a nonprofit organization can add wealth to society.
• Central to the management process is the effective and efficient use of limited resources.
• Organizations perform better when they treat their members better, according to Jeffrey Pfeffer and John F. Veiga.
• Engineering is a profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural science gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgement to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind.
• The governance exercised by these boards most typically involves hiring, firing, and compensating the CEO and top management; assessing strategy; and verifying financial records.
• Ethics training is a way to instill ethical behavior in an organization through structured programs to help participants understand the ethical aspects of decision making and better integrate high ethical standards into their daily behaviors.
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) describes the obligation of an organization to act in ways that serve both its own interests and the interests of society at large.
• Whistleblower protection is the act of exposing misdeeds in an organization to preserve ethical standards and protect against further wasteful, harmful, or illegal acts.
• The expectation is that board members will hold management accountable for ethical and socially responsible leadership.
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