FUNDAMENTALS OF

MANAGEMENT
COURSE SUMMARY
Course Outline- Week 1

Lesson 1. Lesson 2. Lesson 3.

Managers Vs. Leaders Manager’s Roles Managing Organizational Change
Lesson #1
Managers Vs. Leaders
We will cover the following:
• Who is a manager?
• 5 functions of management?
• Who is a leader?
• Leadership?
• Questions & Answers
First: Who is a
manager?
• Individual who
plans,
administers,
directs, and
controls the use
and
coordination of
resources to
achieve a goal.
Second: 5 Functions of Management
Planning

Organizing

Leading

Controlling
Third: Who is a
leader?
• Someone with vision
and interpersonal skills
who guides, influences,
or heads the direction
of a group, or team, in a
noncoercive modeling
manner.
Fourth:
Leadership
• The process of
motivating, inspiring,
and influencing
individuals and groups
to set and achieve goals
by pulling people who
want to follow
voluntarily.
Questions & Answers
1. Can the same person be both the manager and leader?
Yes, but they require two distinct sets of skills
2. Are all managers leaders? No
3. Are all leaders managers? No
4. Where, in an organization, do leaders come from?
Anywhere...Anyone...Any level... Position not required
5. Is the top person in an organization always a leader?
Not always; the top person could be a manager only
Lesson #2
Manager’s Roles
We will cover the following:
• Manager’s Responsibilities
• Questions & Answers
Manager’s impact
• Primary Reason You Left Your
Last Job? Your Boss! Your Boss!
Your Boss! Your Boss! Your
Boss!
• Saratoga Institute (700 exit
interviews),
• Gallup Organization (2 million
workers/700 companies)
• What is wrong with the boss?
Why do people leave?
Questions & Answers
1. The “boss” is the primary reason why people left their job
according to the Gallup organization survey. True

2. Customers are those who buy our products or services, or use

the output of our efforts. True

3. Leaders push and managers pull people to set and achieve

goals. False, the other way around.
Lesson #3
Managing
Organizational Change
We will cover the following:
• Organizational drivers of behavior
• The effect on the organization’s
alignment
• The lean concept
• A change process and the transition
link
• Common reactions to change
Course Outline- Week 2

Lesson 1. Lesson 2. Lesson 3.

Essential skills for today’s
Management Functions The fundamental business Model
manager
Course Outline- Week 3

Lesson 1. Lesson 2. Lesson 3.

Organizational planning Goal setting The planning process

Lesson 4.
Planning Tools
Course Outline- Week 4

Lesson 1. Lesson 2. Lesson 3.

More Management Functions Management styles Control process

Lesson 4.
Networking
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