Anyone who works between the executive and entry-level personnel within an organization and helps those people perform labor to ensure the company reaches its goals
Management development programs
Enable managers to enhance their existing skills, such as resolving conflicts and communicating with others
3 Components or Strategies used to provide Management Development
Management education
Management training
On the job experiences
Management education
Learning the theoretical foundations of management through formal programs, providing essential knowledge on topics like organizational behavior and decision making, serving as a base for effective leadership in practical situations
Management training
Training activity that focuses on improving an individual's skills as a leader and manager
On the job experiences
Managers learn and acquire various skills and knowledge by doing the job assigned, can be used along with other techniques of management development
On the job experiences techniques
Coaching
Job rotation
Describing a manager's job: Long hours, primarily focused within the organization, high activity levels, fragmented work, varied activities, primarily focused on oral communication, many contacts, much information gathering is conducted
Mintzberg's managerial roles
Interpersonal, informational and decisional
Interpersonal roles
Figurehead
Leader
Liaison
Informational roles
Monitor
Communication (Disseminator)
Spokesperson
Decisional roles
Entrepreneur
Disturbance Handler
Resource Allocator
Negotiator
Competency skills
Skills or personal characteristics that contribute to effective performance, including human resource management, leadership, goal and action management, directing subordinates, focus on others, specialized knowledge
5 Functions of Management (POSDICON)
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Motivating
Controlling
Leader
Someone who can influence others and who has managerial authority
Leadership
The process of leading a group and influencing that group to achieve its goals
Types of Leadership Style
Autocratic
Democratic
Consultative
Persuasive
Laissez-faire
Paternalistic
Transactional leaders
Lead primarily by using social exchanges (or transactions), work on the organizational line to get things done in perfection and expect followers to do the same
Transformational leaders
Stimulate and inspire (transform) followers to achieve extraordinary outcomes, work along with followers by encouraging, increasing morale, and motivation
Management
Allows managers to see the greater context and set long- and short term company targets and objectives, means teamwork, the manager should be able to work with subordinates, the leader manager must realize the importance of people working harmoniously with the aim of effectively reaching the target goals of the company, the process of getting things done effectively and efficiently, with and through people
Steve Jobs: 'It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.'
Biggest motivators at work
Salary
Status
Achievement
Recognition
Advancement
Work Itself
Growth
Responsibility
Relationship with peers
Working conditions
Personal life
Relationship with employees
Organizational policy
Relationship with managers
Supervision
Job Security
Benefits of Proper Compensation
Attracts talent
Motivates Employees
Rewards Performance
Reduces Turnover
Manages Compensation Budget
Intrinsic rewards
Come from the job itself, such as pride in one's work, feelings of accomplishment, being part of a work team
Extrinsic rewards
Come from a source outside the job, mainly by management, such as money, promotions, benefits
Compensation
A systematic approach to providing monetary value to employees in exchange for work performed, can achieve purposes like assisting in recruitment, job performance, and job satisfaction
Compensation objectives
To recruit and retain qualified employees
To increase or maintain morale
To determine basic wage and/or salary
To reward for job performance
Wages
Hourly compensation paid to operating employees, the basis for wages is time, intended to pay the "Blue Collar Workers"
Salary
Income paid to an individual on the basis of time, often given to pay the "White Collar Employees"
Determining what to pay
Job evaluation helps set pay structure, job analysis information determines the relative value, or rank, of each job, other pay structure factors include labor market conditions, collective bargaining, individual skill differences
Types of Compensation
Base pay
Commissions
Overtime wages
Tip income
Bonus pay
Recognition pay
Benefits
Stock options
Other non-cash benefits
Compensation received by an employee from work is considered as one of the most important motivator for an employee's retention from his work
Receiving a high pay allows an individual to buy what they need and to acquire things that give them satisfaction, status, and convenience
Compensation can be a source of dissatisfaction/frustration if it is not designed and administered accordingly on the theories and principles which should guide the actions of managers
From the point of view of employees, it is not enough that they receive their pay but they have to see that the pay they receive is commensurate to the effort they put into their job and the qualifications they possess
Important
Motivator for an employee's retention from his work
Employees always take pride in the amount of check that they receive every payday