Mid Term essay
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Introduction: The following are the key points that I took interest in, with many of these points I found they can translate in to any management form, scenario or situation some one in a leadership role could refer to as a guide line. As with all the chapters we covered to date these critical points as I call them are essential for every one in a management position.
My Critical points (Key points) are as follows:
1. Who are managers, what defines a manager today and what is expected
2. What is management and what are the expectations
3. Management theory’s how do they play a role in our thinking.
4. What can we learn from an organizations behavior?
5. Types of managers can you categorize them?
6. Are organizational cultures important?
7. Global environment and its importance
8. How to do business in a global environment.
9. The social responsibility of organizations.
10. Organizational and Ethical behavior.
11. Understanding the decision making progress
12. Styles in decision making and how they differ
13. Importance of setting goals and planning
14. How to set up the steps for goal setting
15. What is strategic management and how important is it/
16. Recognizing the different styles of organizational strategy
17. Environmental scanning and Ethics
18. Importance of budget management and resource allocation.
19. What is the definition of organizational structure?
20. Which is best Centralization or Decentralization?
Body
Starting from the, top my first two choices are closely tied together from the first time I was promoted to a position of supervision I had no clue what the definition of a manager (1) was and I was given little direction on how th ...