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Academics are close to developing a comprehensive theory of management.
In the UK, the manager’s right to manage is restricted by the trade unions.
Management as a distinctive group emerged with the separation of ownership and control.
The growing popularity of the MBA is a sign of management as an emerging profession.
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The management role is essentially the same in all types of organization.
A manager shapes the functional, strategic and organizational contexts of an organization.
The most successful managers are those that display significant charisma power.
Rational goal models best explain what managers do.
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Modern management can be traced back to the building of the pyramids in ancient Egypt.
Modern management has its origins in the separation of ownership and control and the growing size of organizations.
Modern management really began with the Scientific Management movement 1900-1920.
Modern management is just as much a profession as doctors and lawyers.
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Management is difficult to define because managers use so much jargon or tend to be secretive.
The role of management is essentially the same in all businesses.
Management is difficult to define because it varies in different types of business, between different levels in the same business and can be done in different ways.
We know what managers do because so many textbooks have been written on the subject in different countries.
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Scientific management is a rational goal model of management.
The introduction of scientific management based on Taylor’s principles in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century had little impact on productivity.
Taylor and Fayol shared a view that organizations could be viewed as a machine.
Human relations approaches to management stress the importance of the individual.
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Weber believed that bureaucracy slowed decision-making in organizations.
Weber’s view of organizational bureaucracy is a classic example of a rational goal model of management.
Weber believed that organizations were more effective if employees were multi-skilled and could perform a variety of tasks.
Weber’s principles of bureaucracy were a means of managing large, complex organizations such as government departments.
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Responsive management models prescribe a best fit between the organization and its environment.
Responsive management models prescribe best practice in dealing with environmental change.
Responsive management models recognise that there is no one best way of managing but managers should be flexible in their response.
Responsive management models highlight the relationship between managers and their staff.
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Many theories of management originate in the USA and may be culturally biased as a consequence.
No theory of management could have predicted the high salaries and bonuses paid to senior managers in the banking sector in recent years.
The majority of studies of management are based on sound methodologies.
Most fashionable theories of management are applicable for a limited time.
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Managers plan their work and are seen as more proactive than reactive.
Most managers see themselves as part of a network of relationships both internally and externally.
According to Mintzberg, the key roles for any manager are those concerned with decision making.
Luthans concluded that successful managers are those who focus on satisfying the needs of their staff.
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Successful managers spend most of their time planning.
Studies show that managers rely less on theory and more on intuition.
The classical principles of management as defined by writers do not match the realities of management in the 21st century.
The most effective managers have studied management at postgraduate level on a course such as the MBA.
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More recent studies reveal that managers operate to a rational model involving forecasting, planning, organizing and controlling.
More recent studies reveal that managers work to logical plan.
More recent studies reveal that managers like working at non-routine tasks that often involve firefighting.
More recent studies reveal that managers rely on models and theories.
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Luthans rejected the traditional view of management activities and identified communicating and networking as the key components.
Luthans found that the most successful managers in terms of promotion were those who dealt most effectively with staff.
Luthans study of management was very similar to those carried out by Stewart and Mintzberg.
Luthans incorporated more traditional activities of planning and controlling in his model of management.
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Mintzberg carried out a comprehensive survey of managers at different levels.
A later Swedish study confirmed many of Mintzberg’s findings but identified international activity as a major new role.
Mintzberg’s study has been challenged by more recent studies of international managers.
Mintzberg concluded that a manager’s interpersonal roles were the key to organizational success.
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Management and leadership are really the same thing.
Leadership skills focus on getting people to do their job.
Leadership skills are to do with managing complexity.
Leadership skills are concerned with inspiring people to higher levels of performance.
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Leadership is concerned with improving the performance of groups in an organization.
Leadership is concerned primarily with solving organizational problems.
Leadership is mainly about setting tasks and achieving goals.
Leadership balances the vision of what might be possible with the realities of organizational resources.
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We can identify a number of key characteristics that define successful leaders.
Studies have demonstrated that democratic and people-centred approaches to leadership achieve the best results.
The contingency approach argues that effective leadership is a function of a number of factors, such as the style of the leader, the nature of the task and the nature of the group.
In a modern global economy, transformational leadership is required for businesses to be successful.
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Leadership is viewed by the UK Government and UK management professional bodies as an important tool in an increasingly competitive environment.
Studies of leadership in the UK show that managers rate technical and job knowledge as the most important characteristic of a leader.
Theories of leadership offer managers a clear guidance in their role.
Leaders can influence people in their organization but they cannot change the environment in which they operate.
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Leadership is important in modern organizations because many organizations operate in an uncertain and constantly changing environment.
Leadership is important in modern organizations because modern employees are very difficult to control.
Leadership is important in modern organizations because it is part of a UK government initiative.
Leadership is important in modern organizations because studies point to a clear correlation between strong leadership and organization performance.
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Studies have identified 6 traits that would point to success as a leader.
Leadership can be trained irrespective of the characteristics of individuals.
Leaderships studies of behaviour in boys’ clubs are accurate indicators of effective management behaviour.
Fiedler believed that if the leader’s style did not match the situation then either the leader or the situation must be changed.
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Transactional leaders operate through negotiated outcomes with employees.
Transformational leadership works best when conditions are changing and uncertain.
Transformational leadership can achieve the greatest changes during periods of stability.
The GLOBE study found little correlation between leadership styles in different cultures.