Introduction to Management

The formation of organization implies that a leader should take the role to control the activities of the group; the work done by the leader is what we call management.

Organization and the definition of Management

Organization is formed by a group of people who work together. No matter the organization is a profit making ones or non-profit making ones, its formations are to achieve a common purpose or variety of goals, which are the desired future outcomes. The outcomes might be producing a series of product or serving a group of target customers or satisfying othersÐŽ¦ needs.

In these organizations, managers mainly are responsible to supervising the work performance of the group members and deciding the use of resources to achieve the organizationÐŽ¦s goal.

Management can be simply defined as ÐŽ§getting things accomplished through other peopleЎЁ. Management is then the term describe the work done by the manager, which are planning, organizing, leading and controlling the use of human and other resources, in order to help the organization to achieve a higher organization performance. Planning is to define to goals or targets of the organization and devising action plans to meet organization goals. Organizing is to determine what tasks should be done, arrange jobs to subordinates, controlling the budgeting and divided tasks to individuals or teams. Leading is to motivate staffs to work, maintaining the progress of activities and good relationship and to ensure to work done effective and efficient. Controlling is to measure work performance, assess whether goals have been met, compare the set targets, and make corrections when it is needed

Organization performance is the performance effectiveness and the performance efficiency. The performance effectiveness is the measure of the task or goal accomplishment, it would be to what degree of a goal achieve. Managers who chose the right goals and achieve it can be say performance effectiveness. Besides, the performance efficiency is the measure of the resource cost associated for the goals, it would be how much of the resources are used and how productivity of resources. The more time and resources are saved in achieving goals, the most efficient production supervisor is.

The study of management

The study of management is a learning of a set of attitudes and beliefs about people, work, action and organization. It might not be the whole of management, but it is the foundation of management.

It is not only about how boxes are arranged on tree of authority, but are the studies of the nature and purpose of management. It includes the understanding of managers and their environments; social and ethical responsibilities of an organization; decision making, the planning function and the organization function; the design of organization; controlling functions; the methods of communicating and negotiating; human resources management; the change and development and innovation of organization; managing on productions an operation; planning and controlling of inventory; and entrepreneurship.

The importance in studying for management

The competition of jobs exists, every one is competing for a well-paying job. Employer usually expected pay more if employees have well understanding management. As a result, it seems that holding a Master degree in Business Administration is a passport to a management position.

After studying the management course, I expected I should have knowledge of the functional nature of department, and the relationships between people, departments and organizations structure. Moreover, I expected I will know more about on how