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    This document provides an overview of organizational behavior and the roles and functions of managers. It defines organizational behavior as the systematic study of how individuals and groups act within an organization and how they impact its performance. Managers make decisions, allocate resources, direct others, and align goals. Their main functions are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Managers take on interpersonal, informational, and decisional roles. They require technical, human, and conceptual skills to be effective.

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    Introduction to the organizational behavior...basic concept of management

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    OB-GIFT-Lec1 (17-10-2012)

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    Organizational Behavior

    Lecture#1

    Instructor:
    Muhammad Irfan Bajwa

    Organizational Behavior

    What is Organization?
    A social entity that has a collective goal and is linked
    with the external environment.

    What is Behavior?
    Action or response of a system or an organism to
    various stimuli or inputs.

    Definition of Organizational Behavior?


    A systematic study of actions of individuals/groups
    within an organization and their impact on each other
    as well as on organizations performance.
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    All about Managers

    What do Managers Do?


    The Management Functions.
    Management Roles
    Management Skills
    Effective Versus Successful Managerial Activities
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    What do Managers Do?

    A Manager is:
    A person who oversees the activities of others and
    who is responsible for attaining goals in an
    organization.

    Managers normally:

    Make decisions
    Allocate resources
    Direct the activities of others
    Align individual goals with organizational goals

    Management Functions

    There are four basic functions performed by the


    Managers:

    Planning
    Organizing
    Leading
    Controlling

    Management Functions

    Planning
    Planning function encompasses defining an organizations
    goals, establishing an overall strategy, and developing a
    comprehensive set of plans to integrate and coordinate
    activities.

    Organizing
    Designing an organizations structure is called
    Organizing. It includes determining what tasks are to
    be done, who is to do them, how tasks are grouped,
    who reports whom, and where the decisions are to be
    made.
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    Management Functions

    Leading
    The Leading function includes motivating the employees,
    directing the activities of others, selecting the most
    effective communication channels, and resolving conflicts
    among members.

    Controlling
    Controlling function includes monitoring the
    organizations performance, comparing it with
    previously set goals, and taking potential corrective
    measures.

    Management Roles

    Interpersonal Role
    Managers need good people skills along with the technical skills
    to be successful. In an interpersonal role, managers frequently
    act as Figurehead, leader, and Liaison.

    Informational Role
    Managers also collect and disseminate information as
    Monitors, Disseminators, and Spokespersons.

    Decisional Role
    In a decisional role, managers make choices as
    entrepreneurs, disturbance handlers, resource
    allocators, negotiators.
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    Management Skills

    Technical Skills
    Ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise

    Human Skills
    Ability to work with, understand, and motivate other
    people both individually and in groups

    Conceptual Skills
    Ability to analyze and diagnose the complex situation
    and act accordingly.

    Effective Vs Successful Managerial Activities

    Traditional Management
    Decision Making, Planning, Controlling

    Communication
    Exchanging routine information and processing
    paperwork

    Human Resource Management


    Motivating, disciplining, managing conflicts, staffing
    and training

    Networking
    Socializing, politicking, and interacting with outsiders
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