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Engineering Management: Engineering Principles. Application of Engineering Principles To Business Practice
Engineering Management: Engineering Principles. Application of Engineering Principles To Business Practice
Engineering Management: Engineering Principles. Application of Engineering Principles To Business Practice
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06/30/2016
Engineering Management
The profession in which a A set of activities (including Management is getting things through others,
knowledge of the mathematical planning and decision making, Management needs:
and natural science gained by organizing, leading and control) • Objective
study, experience, and practice directed at an organization’s
is applied with judgment to resources (human, financial, • Resources,
develop ways to utilize, physical and informational) with • Methods,
economically, the materials and the aim of achieving
forces of nature for the benefit organizational goals in an • Organization setting,
of mankind efficient and effective manner. • People
Planning
Function of Manager • Manager should have objective in mind
• Planning • Planning help manager to do the right things
• Organizing • Well planning needs the following
• Directing • Defining objectives,
• Deciding what/when/how/who
• Controlling
What is to be done,
When it is to be done,
How it is to be done,
Who is to do it,
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Organizing Directing
• Gathering and allocating resources, • Redirecting human behavior to achieve objectives
• Motivating others to produce,
• Coordinating the work of the organization,
• Influencing subordinates
• Deliberate creation a configuration that defines the
followings:
Controlling
How authority is structured,
• Keeping things on track,
How communication flows,
• Steering performance towards desired goal,
How tasks are accomplished • Coordinating monitoring and adjusting performance