Q461 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

NAME: JORDAN, KRISTAL MAE P. DATE: 12/03/2022

COURSE: BSCPE-4 PROFESSOR: ENGR. LORENA R. ANGULO

MODULE 1
PERFORM QUESTION BANK 1.16
1. Discuss the functions and nature of management.
Planning, organizing, hiring employees, directing, communicating, and managing
are all aspects of management. The disciplines of management are viewed as both art and
science.

2. Explain the nature of management process. Why management process is called social
and consequential process?
Management by nature is putting individuals in groups and overseeing them.
Different degrees of understanding, dynamism, and empathy are needed. The process
includes training, inspiring, and keeping personnel in place in addition to attending to their
social and emotional well-being. Management is concerned with fostering relationships
among people because the human component is the most significant of the other factors.
Management must ensure that interpersonal interactions are fruitful and helpful for achieving
company objectives.

3. What is management? Explain the characteristics of management.

The goal of management is to direct both physical and human resources to enable
the accomplishment of organizational objectives. The following characteristics of
management might be emphasized: - Management is Goal-Oriented: The
accomplishment of any management activity's predetermined goals or objectives serves
as a measure of the activity's success.

4. Explain the importance of management in the present day business world.

Resource use is optimized thanks to management. Management removes all sorts
of waste and produces efficiency in all corporate processes through planning and
organization. Management encourages employees to give their best effort. This would
result in the business operating effectively.
 5. Describe the major factors that have influenced the evolution of management thought.
Technology has altered management theories and work practices. Organizational
work habits have evolved as a result of modernization. Employee rights and obligations
are constantly changing, which has an impact on management philosophy, etc.

6. Identify the five major perspectives of management thought.

The five PERSPECTIVE are:

Scientific Management Theory
Administrative Management Theory
Bureaucratic Management Theory
Human Relations Management Theory
X&Y Management Theory

7. Describe the central focus of the scientific management, administrative management,

and bureaucratic management sub-fields of the classical perspective on management.
At its core, scientific management theory believes that it is vital to find the
most effective way to complete each and every task, no matter how small. It is important to
know that Fayol agreed with many of Taylor’s ideas and ideologies, however, the main
difference is that Taylor focused on the process of completing the work most effectively, and
Fayol focuses on the organizational structure of a numbers and output than on the wellbeing
of its employees. However, its intended meaning is actually quite different.

8. Describe the major behavioral perspective contributions of Follett, Mayo, McGregor,

and
Barnard.
Mary Parker Follett, a management theorist, was a pioneer in the study of lateral
processes in hierarchical companies. By showing the worker as more than just a
machine, she helped the behaviorism movement in management get off to a strong start.
 Mayo is appropriately referred to as the movement's founder. His concepts
marked a turning point and a milestone for management's human relations strategy. He
understood the value of people in management. He claimed that people are sophisticated
and important contributors to the effectiveness of organizations.
Mcgregor made significant contributions to the theory of management and
motivation. His Theory X and Theory Y, which divides corporate thought into two
camps, is well known. According to Theory X, workers need to be carefully managed
because they are naturally reluctant to labor.
Barnard may have created the first universal theory of group action, and his work
had an impact on the Hawthorne studies of Roethlisberger and Dickson (Organ,
Podasakoff, & MacKenzie, 2006). According to Barnard's 1938 thesis, "people's
willingness to make efforts to the cooperative system is vital."

9. Discuss the four basic characteristics of the quantitative perspective of management.

The management process is subjected to the quantitative approach's application of
statistics, optimization models, information models, computer simulations, and other quantitative
tools.
The idea that organizations are units of decision-making lies at the heart of the
quantitative approach. The use of mathematical models that translate pertinent aspects
into numerical terms can improve the efficiency of these decision-making units.

10. Describe the various building blocks of a systems perspective and indicate how they
interconnect and interact.
The Organization is seen as an Open System made up of Interrelated and
Interdependent Parts that Interact as Sub-Systems by the Systems Approach to
Management Theory, which is often recognized as the cornerstone of Organizational
Development.
These subsystems together form the organization's unified single system. A firm,
for instance, is a system that can have sub-systems for production, marketing, finance,
accounting, and other things. As a result, rather of being researched separately from one
another, the many sub-systems should be examined in the context of one another.

11. What is the main contention of the contingency perspective of management?

The situational method, often known as the contingency approach to management,
maintains that there is no one, universal guideline for the ideal way to run an organization.
The "best" strategy will depend on the internal and external requirements of each company.
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