This document provides an overview of management and organizations. It defines a manager as someone who works with others to accomplish organizational goals. There are three levels of managers: first-line managers oversee non-managerial employees, middle managers oversee first-line managers, and top managers make organization-wide decisions. The document also discusses what managers do, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. It explores the characteristics of organizations and examines challenges modern managers face like ethics, social responsibility, and workforce diversity.
6. What Do Managers Do?
• Functional Approach
– Planning
• Defining goals, establishing strategies to achieve goals,
developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities
– Organizing
• Arranging work to accomplish organizational goals
– Leading
• Working with and through people to accomplish goals
– Controlling
• Monitoring, comparing, and correcting the work