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• Engineering – is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring

  and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical

  knowledge to design and build structures, machines, devices,

  systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to

  the lives of people.
• Management– is the act of getting people together to accomplish

  desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and

  effectively.
• Engineering Management – it is

  a specialized form of management

  that is concerned with the application

  of engineering principles to actual

  business practices.
• EFFICIENCY-Getting work done with minimum of effort, expense or waste; Doing things right most output for least input
• EFFECTIVENESS- Accomplishing tasks that help organizational objectives; Doing right things
• PLANNING, ORGANIZING, LEADING, CONTROLLING

  
• Top Level of Management

  Is the ultimate source of authority and it manages goals and policies for an enterprise. It devotes more time on planning and coordinating functions.
• Middle Level of Management

  Responsible to the top management for the functioning of their department. They make plans for the sub-units of organization.
• Lower Level of Management

  Is also known as supervisory/operative level of management. They guide and instruct workers for a day to day activities.
• Engineers develop new technological solutions. During the engineering design process, the responsibilities of the engineer may include defining problems, conducting and narrowing research, analyzing criteria, finding and analyzing solutions, and making decisions.
• Analyst Engineers break things down into classes and categories, in order to understand them.
• Architect Engineers make design based on technical feasibility and standards and what the client wants (and sometimes aesthetic fashion).
• Craftsman Engineers implement the design based on craftsmanship

  and based on scientific and technical knowledge
• Automator or Tool Maker Engineers initiate creation of different

  tools to enhance productivity
• Designer Engineers make the prototype for a craftwork or who

  makes scale drawings for a machine.
• Interpersonal Roles

  1. Figurehead - Managers perform ceremonial duties
  2. Leader - Managers motivate and encourage workers to accomplish objectives
  3. Liaison - Managers deal with people outside their units
• Informational Roles

  1. Monitor- Managers scan their environment for information

  2. Disseminator - Managers share information with others in their company

  3. Spokesperson - Managers share information with others outside their departments or companies
• Decisional Roles

  1. Entrepreneur Managers adapt to incremental change

  2. Disturbance Handler Managers respond to problems that demand immediate action

  3. Resource Allocator Managers decide who gets what resources

  4. Negotiator Managers negotiate schedules, projects, goals, outcomes, resources, and raises
• Frederick Winslow Taylor

  He is an American Mechanical Engineer who

  is known today as the “Father of Scientific

  Management”. One of his many

  contributions to modern management is the

  common practice of giving employees rest

  breaks throughout the day.
• Frank and Lilian Gilbreth: 


  Time and Motion

  were a husband and a wife team who

  worked as engineers in the early part of the 20th

  century.
• Henry L. Gantt

  Develop the Gantt Chart which is used for scheduling

  multiple over-lapping tasks over a time period. He

  focused on motivational schemes, emphasizing the

  greater effectiveness of rewards for good work (rather

  than penalties for poor work).
• HENRI FAYOL

  The “Father of Modern Management Theory.

  “Divided industrial activities into six groups:

  technical, commercial, financial, security, accounting

  and managerial. He also formulated the fourteen

  Principles of Management.
• MAX WEBER

  He is the “Father of Modern Sociology” He analyzed bureaucracy as the most logical and rational structure for large organizations.
• Bureaucracy

  Literally means to rule from a desk or office. The exercise of control on

  the basis of knowledge, expertise, or experience
• MARY PARKER FOLLETT

  is known today as the “Mother of Scientific Management“. Her many contributions to modern management include the ideas of negotiation, conflict resolution, and power sharing.
• GEORGE ELTON MAYO

  “Father of the Hawthorne Studies”

  Identified the Hawthorne Effect or the bias that occurs when people know that they are being studied.
• CHESTER I. BARNARD

  He introduced the Systems Theory suggesting that the task

  of managers is to maintain a system of cooperative effort in

  a formal organization. He suggested a comprehensive social

  systems approach to managing.
• According to Frederick Taylor

  “Management is knowing exactly what you

  want (people) to do, and then seeing that

  it is done in the best and cheapest way.

  Is a set of activities (including planning,

  decision making, organizing, leading, and

  controlling) directed to an organization’s

  resources (human, financial, physical, and

  information) with the aim of achieving

  organizational goals in an efficient and

  effective manner.
• Management

  • is a process involving planning, leading and controlling the different elements to achieve desired outcome.
  • involves problem solving and decision making (BM, TM, EM)
• Business Management

  • Management of business to achieve its mission, goals and objectives.
• Technology Management

  • is concerned with decision, problems, at all levels related to the creation and utilization of technological assets and capabilities.
• Engineering Management

  • management of different engineering activities, for example, R & D, design, manufacture, operations, maintenance etc.
• manager

  • Is someone whose primary responsible to carry out management process. In particular, is someone who plans and makes decision, organizes, leads, and controls human, financial, physical, and information resources.
• The Management Process

  Engineering and Management

  
  

  Planning

  means setting an organization’s goals andbdeciding how best to achieve them.

  
  

  Decision making

  a part of the planning process, involves selecting a course action from a set of alternatives.

  
  

  Organizing

  involves determining how activities and resources are to be grouped

  
  

  Leading

  is the set of process used to get people to work together to advance the interest of the organization.

  
  

  Controlling

  or monitoring the organization’s progress towards its goals.
• Marketing Managers

  • work in areas related to the marketing function- getting consumers and clients to buy the organization’s products or services.
  • these areas include new product development, promotion, and distribution.
• Financial Managers

  • Deal primarily with an organization’s financial resources.
  • They are responsible for activities such as accounting, cash management, and investments.
• Operations Managers

  • are concerned with creating and managing the systems that creates an organization’s products and services.
  • Typical responsibilities of operations managers includes production control, quality control, plant layout, and site selection.
• Human Resource Managers

  • are responsible for hiring and developing employees.
  • they are typically involved in human resource planning, recruiting and selecting employees, training and development, designing compensation and benefit systems, formulating performance appraisal systems, and discharging low- performing and problem employees.
• Administrative Managers

  • or general managers are not associated with any particular management specialty.
  • they tend to be generalists; they have some basic familiarity with all functional areas of management rather than specialized training in any one area.
• Managerial Skills


  Technical Skills, Interpersonal Skills

  Conceptual Skills

  Diagnostic Skills