Chapter 1: Leading Edge Management

Achieves a stated goal or succeeds in accomplishing what it tries to do.

Work with and through other people and to work effectively as part of a group; middle managers.

Represents department during negotiation of budgets, union contract, and purchases.

Decisions about how to assign people, time, equipment, money, and other resources to attain desired outcomes.

Which are the vertical management types?

The amounts of resources used to produced a desired volume of output.

Acquires information from others and scans written materials to stay well informed.

Understanding of and proficiency in the performance of specific tasks; individual contributors.

Involves assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments, and allocating resources

Maintain and develop information network.

Pertain to relationships with others and are related to the human skills.

Responsible for the entire organization; external environment and determining the best strategy to be competitive.

Monitoring employees’ activities, keeping the organization on track, and making corrections as necessary.

Forward information to other organization members.

Encompasses relationships with subordinates, including motivation, communication, and influence.

Pertains to the development of information sources both inside and outside the organization.

Pertain to those events about which the manager must make a choice and take action.

In charge of the functions that directly advance the core work of an organization, such as manufacturing or sales.

Temporary work projects involving people from different functions and levels.

Handling ceremonial and symbolic activities for the department or organization.

Transmit information to outsiders through speeches and reports.

Motivate employees to achieve the organization’s goals.

First or second-level; directly responsible for overseeing groups of production employees.

Attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through the four functions of management.

Responsible for a department that performs a single functional task, such as financing and marketing.

Identify new ideas and delegate idea responsibility to others.

Responsible for several departments that perform different functions.

Responsible for a major division or department; less on individual performance and more allocation and teams of people.

Which are the horizontal management types?

Resolving conflicts among subordinates or between the manager’s department and other departments.

Concerned with defining goals for future performance and how to attain them.

Cognitive ability to see the organization as a whole and the relationships among its parts; managers at the top.