MANAGEMENT
Management in broader view is
concerned with effective and proper coordination of an organizations labor
force and the materials within the company and all the factors that help the
organization in realizing its set goals and objectives. The art of management
also comprises the interrelationship between the organization and its workers
and also the interaction between the organization and its environment. (Drucker,
2005). It therefore follows that proper management in an organization is
necessary if the organization is to achieve its goals and satisfy all its
workers. In order to achieve this, the organizations must recruit a competent
manager who will be able to organize all the factors of production with the aim
of making profits. Managers are the individuals who use their management skills
in executing the goals of the organization.
In an organization the management
team may range from one person to hundreds of individuals depending on the size
of the organization and the workload. The major difference between the managers
and the individual workers is the duty that they perform; the managers are
charged with the duty of formulating policies and ensuring that the policies
are well executed while the individual employees have a duty of executing the
policies formulated by the managers. The managers therefore have to work in
conjunction with the individual employees to ensure that set goals are met
Question 2
Over the years, the art of
management has greatly evolved and changed from the old model method of
management to incorporate the new advanced methods and the incorporation of
information management technology. The management work in today’s evolved world
is made simpler due to some issues which include the following: Previously,
when serious information was to be passed to the members of the company, a
meeting had to be called which constituted to time wasting and hence poor
performance but today manager just use emails to convey information.
Today, managers are time savers
because they have realized that time greatest recourse that is being wasted and
hence they came up the idea of electronic monitoring machine to analyze each
employee. In addition, the managers have adopted the use information technology
to boost their performance and increase productivity of the employees.
Question 3
The management team of any
organization has a function of planning the events of the company. A plan is a
future course of action and it involves deciding what to do, when to do it and
how to do it. It involves proper utilization of human and non-human resources,
(Koontz and O’donell, 2010). The managers also organize the organization by
bringing together the physical, financial and the human recourses together to
enable the company to achieve its goals. In addition, managers undertake the
duty of staffing the organization; this involves manning the company through
proper selection and effective interviewing of employees to ensure that only
competent employees are hired and they are placed where they are suited.
(Koontz and O’donell, 2010). In
conclusion managers are charged with task of directing the organization which
involves ensuring that efficiency is achieved and the company realizes its
goal.
Following the management principles
procedure, my company- the Kenya pipeline- is keen enough in undertaking
management roles and I feel it’s only challenged when it comes to staffing
because the elements of corruption leads to hiring of incompetent personnel
which affects the overall performance of the company.
Question
4
Based
on the idea of changing technology, future managers have to be keen enough and
undertake the academic challenge to incorporate technology in their day to day
management exercise. Organizations and managers involved with the practice of
manual production will be left behind and their productions will be overtaken
by the companies that embrace technology in their systems.(Dr.Hurber, 2005). In
his writings, Hurber also warns that in future, the level of competition is
really rising and organization managers have to take earlier consideration in
order to avoid the situation of being left behind. The level of technological
advancement has a greater impact on the quality and the quantity of the produce
and consequently the market performance. The role of future managers therefore
will be have a leading foot in anticipating change and guiding the organization
to change its policies and the equipments to fit the changing times of the
world. (Dr.Hurber, 2005) he states that the role of future managers will be to
create new products and new markets. He continues to add that future managers
should take note on the environmental changes and learn how to analyze and interpret
the environmental signs since they serve as a basic tool an organization must
consider for it to progress and prosper.
Question 5
Managerial ethics involves strictly
observing the codes of conduct in an organization. The codes of conduct spell
out clearly the dos and don’ts of the organization and also the manner in which
problems are solved in case they do arise. The managers have to ensure that at
all times they observe their managerial ethics. This is the only way to ensure
that the entire employee fraternity is satisfied and the organizations goals
are met and failure to observe the ethics will lead to collapse of the
organization.
In my humble opinion, I think the
ethics and social responsibilities are bound to change in the future. This is
so because with advancement in technology, the modes of relating between
employees are bound to change and this will reduce the friction between employees
since there will be other modes of employee interactions other than the
traditional physical way of interacting. The technological advancement will
produce better sensors that will be able to effectively sense the
irregularities in the organization and the social misconduct which involves
environmental degradation. (Dr.Hurber, 2005)
References
George
Hurber (2006). The necessary nature of future firms.
Koortz
and O’donell (2010). Principles of
management.
Peter
Drucker (2005)
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