ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Relations Movement, Elton Mayo, Harmony Company

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Len Karakowsky

Document Summary

Management: the process of administrating and coordinating resources effectively and efficiently in an effort to achieve the organization"s goals. Efficiency: using the fewest inputs to produce a given level of output. Effectiveness: the pursuit and achievement of goals that are appropriate for an organization. Assessing what the organizations goals should be. Generating strategies to achieve the organizations goals. Assessing whether the organizations is progressing towards its goals. Taking steps to ensure problems are dealt with. How tasks will be assigned including the issue of staffing. How authority will be allocated to carry out the work. Guiding and motivating all members toward the achievement of organizations goals. Interpersonal roles: include those managerial tasks that arise from the manager"s formal authority base and involve relationships with either other organizational member or external parties. Informational roles: reflects the importance of managers as communication sources for the organization giving out information. Monitor - for informational useful in decision making.