The Human Side of Organizations

COPING WITH MANAGEMENT
    Managees are someone who is managed. May be a replacement for employee (as managers are also employed by firms), worker, subordinate (possibly to demeaning), and associate (too condescending or implying a false equality?). The overall goal will be show how managers and those being managed fit into the overall organization. One of the first steps in understanding the roll of management is to realize that management is to realize that management is a separate career. Even though someone was made a manager from, say, electrical engineer (E.E), the person is adding a new profession. This should involve as much training as if the E.E decided to become a nurse. Management has four functions: Planning, Controlling, organizing, Directing, Leadership, and Motivating. Planning is considered the most basic management function. Planning involves establishing both the destination and the route for the business. Controlling entails supervising, disciplining, evaluating, and managing the change of the four managerial resources. Controlling activities include evaluating the performance of equipment and people, analyzing the usefulness of information, measuring the performance of financial and people, analyzing the usefulness of information, and changing resources that are not working well. Organizing function of management involves the grouping of the four resources. Organization also involves coordinating departmental operations, grouping human resources on a permanent and daily basis, and staffing the organization. On a smaller scale, organizing entails the scheduling of work shifts, work hours, and breaks. Directing consists of two difficult tasks: leading and motivating. Leadership entails providing a vision for obtaining the organization’s goals and showing people the path or direction for realizing that vision. Motivating involves giving people reason to work.   Management also has four resources with which to carry out the four functions. They...