September 8, 2021

Management Today
Mohamed Elmi
GMS 200
Lecture 1
 Intellectual
Competency Commitment
Capital
Source: Visual Capitalist, “The World’s 100 Most
Valuable Brands in 2018”
Source: Visual Capitalist, “The Numbers Behind the
World’s Closest Trade Relationship”
 Financial Ethical
Sustainability
performance performance
Source: Cukier, et al., (2017), “DiversityLeads – Women and Visible Minorities in Senior Leadership Positions: A Profile of
the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)”, Diversity Institute.
 Permanent full
time workers

Temporary
Freelance
part-time
or contract
workers
workers
Organizations as open systems interact with their environments
Productivity and the dimensions of organizational
performance
Productivity and the dimensions of organizational
performance
The organization viewed as an upside-down pyramid
Four functions of management – planning, organizing, leading, and controlling

Planning: Setting performance Organizing: Arranging tasks,

objectives and deciding how to people, and other resources to
achieve them accomplish the work

The Management
Process

Leading: Inspiring people to Controlling: Measuring

work hard to achieve high performance and taking action
performance to ensure desired results
Mintzberg’s 10 Managerial Roles
Katz’ essential managerial skills – technical, human, and
conceptual
See you next week