...Unit 4001 - An Introduction to Management Styles Name: Timothy Freeman CMI Number: P04304125 1. Be able to understand assumptions about human nature and managerial behaviour. 1.1 Identify models which make suppositions about human nature and behaviour at work Theory X and Theory Y represent two sets of assumptions about human nature and human behaviour that are relevant to the practice of management. They describe two contrasting models of workforce motivation. Theory X represents a negative view on of human nature that assumes individuals generally dislike work, are irresponsible, and require close supervision to do their jobs. Theory Y represents a positive view of human nature and assumes individuals are generally hard-working, creative, and able to take on responsibility and exercise self-control in their jobs. One would expect that managers holding assumptions about human nature that are consistent with Theory X might exhibit a managerial style that is quite different than managers who hold assumptions consistent with Theory Y. 1.2 Discuss how attitudes as assumptions can influence managerial behaviour. McGregor described two distinct set of assumptions about people at work. He believed that these assumptions influence the thinking and attitude of most managers about the people at work. 1|Page Theory X presents a pessimistic or negative view of human nature whereas Theory Y reflects an optimistic or positive view of human behaviour. Theory X lists...
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...Camelot College Programme : CMI Management and Leadership Unit Title : An introduction to managerial styles Unit Number : 4001 Unit Level : Level 5 Module Tutor : GOWHER MALIK Learner’s name and statement of authenticity: Learner’s Name: TALHA AZAM Learner’s ID: Date handed-in: I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own. Where the work of others has been used to support my work then credit has been acknowledged. Signature: ……………………. Date: …………… Learner’s name and statement of authenticity: Learner’s Name: TALHA AZAM Learner’s ID: Date handed-in: I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own. Where the work of others has been used to support my work then credit has been acknowledged. Signature: ……………………. Date: …………… 2. In many management text books the three most talked about management styles are democratic, autocratic and consultative. Selecting the correct management style may lead to greater motivation and productivity from your staff. However, it is not as easy as just 'picking' a style. Managers personalities and characteristics will influence the type of style adopted. For example a timid manager will find an autocratic management style difficult to adopt. Democratic Management Style A democratic manager delegates authority to his/her staff, giving them responsibility to complete the task given...
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...Unit 4001 - An Introduction to Management Styles 1. Be able to understand assumptions about human nature and managerial behaviour. 1.1 Identify models which make suppositions about human nature and behaviour at work Theory X and Theory Y represent two sets of assumptions about human nature and human behaviour that are relevant to the practice of management. They describe two contrasting models of workforce motivation. Theory X represents a negative view on of human nature that assumes individuals generally dislike work, are irresponsible, and require close supervision to do their jobs. Theory Y represents a positive view of human nature and assumes individuals are generally hard-working, creative, and able to take on responsibility and exercise self-control in their jobs. One would expect that managers holding assumptions about human nature that are consistent with Theory X might exhibit a managerial style that is quite different than managers who hold assumptions consistent with Theory Y. 1.2 Discuss how attitudes as assumptions can influence managerial behaviour. McGregor described two distinct set of assumptions about people at work. He believed that these assumptions influence the thinking and attitude of most managers about the people at work. Theory X presents a pessimistic or negative view of human nature whereas Theory Y reflects an optimistic or positive view of human behaviour. Theory X lists a set of assumptions which presents a pessimistic view of human...
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...Total Quality Management Total Quality Management (TQM) is a comprehensive and structured approach to organizational management that seeks to improve the quality of products and services through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback. TQM requirements may be defined separately for a particular organization or may be in devotion to established standards, such as the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 9000 series. Every organization, both for profit and non-profit, can benefit from Total Quality Management (TQM). One definition for TQM is a management strategy aimed at embedding awareness of quality in all organizational processes. It has been widely used in education, government, manufacturing, and service industries. TQM processes are divided into four chronological categories: plan, do, check, and act (the PDCA cycle). In the planning phase, people define the problem to be addressed, collect relevant data, and discover the problem's root cause. Next in the doing phase, people develop and implement a solution, and decide upon a measurement to gauge its effectiveness. Third is the checking phase, where people prove the results through before-and-after data comparison. The final phase acting is where, people document their results, inform others about process changes, and make recommendations for the problem to be addressed in the next PDCA cycle (Green 2003). The large and growing importance of world trade is a major phenomenon of our time...
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...political system, and management style for doing business with respect to the culture and traditions of the country. Each country can be a real consideration for expanding your business in if the research is done by the business desiring to expand. If the research is not done properly, then without a doubt your business plan to expand will not be productive. Each of these countries it is easy to cause a great enough offense to the host country that it will be virtually impossible to enter into this country and have an effective business. The business must have a market advantage to expand in any country. The host country must feel they have respect and the wellbeing of their country before they will allow a business to enter into their country. A good example of this is when McDonalds entered into China. McDonalds needed to make some serious changes to their menu for the culture in which they intended to setup their business and they had to give certain guarantee’s to China about labor, customs, courtesies, and business involvement for political issues (Thuermer, 1998). A similar business move was required when McDonald’s established their self in England. England required a large amount of the product be produced by England for the product used. This research will look at Brazil, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia for a proposed business plan for implementation, with respect to the culture and how they are different in each country. What type of management style will be used and...
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...comment which was made by Joanne falls perfectly in McClelland’s acquired needs theory because she feels that there are some afflictive managers on board. (pg.223)The expectancy theory for the simple fact that supervisors want each of their employees to strive to be the best being high performers regardless to what they are saying in the meeting room.(pg. 233) Reorganization under the Bureaucratic management means that Betty would perhaps become unimportant as a manager. (pg. 275) If most of her employees are creative this would not be a good management style to use. Autocratic management should only be used for a certain amount of time. If the reorganization is only for a short period of time it would perhaps work using it long term could cause Betty’s employees to become resentful towards her and put in only half of the high performance that they would usually put in towards their work. (pg. 276) However the better management style for Betty to use would be Democratic style because she is preparing them as a group and trying to relive their tension. If she has been trained this style she could pull it off the employees would appreciate the trust that she gives and they can...
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...Twelve O’clock High Leadership and Management styles have played an important role in the learning in Outcome Assessment and Quality Management. In class I have learned the positives and negatives that come from the different leadership styles presented. The movie, Twelve O’clock High, is a film that takes place in 1943 outside Nazi Germany. It depicts the 918th Bomb Group and the problems that they are having. Throughout the movie we are presented with multiple leadership styles from the commanding officers; Colonel Davenport, Brigadier General Savage, and Major General Pritchard of Pine Tree. Through Colonel Davenport, Major General Pritchard, and Brigadier General Savage at the start of the film we can see the distinct difference between their leadership styles. General Davenport shows a high concern for his navigator trying to take blame for a navigation error that was his navigator’s fault. Davenport shows a high concern for his men and a low or medium concern for production lead me to believe middleman management style. General Savage, who seems to have the exact opposite leadership style, is highly task oriented and shows little if any concern for the men of the 918th. Savage has a managerial style mimicking authority compliance. Major General Pritchard shares the same management style as Savage. Shortly after the conversation Davenport is relieved of his duty and Savage is put in control of the 918th. Pritchard and Savage are both men who believe chain of command...
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...I. Mangers or Leaders A. Sister Mary Clarence 1. Sister Mary Clarence is the manager of the singers, and the leader of the nuns a. Manager of the singers 1. Older autocratic style management b. From Management to Leadership Theory Paradigm c. Leader of the Nuns B. Reverend Mother 2. Reverend Mother is the manager of the nuns and later becomes the leader d. Manager of the nuns 2. Older autocratic management style e. From Management to Leadership Theory Paradigm f. Leader of the Nuns II. Leadership Traits A. Openness to Experience 1. After witnessing the execution of Vince’s chauffeur, Delores has to adjust her lifestyle- which drastically differs from her current lifestyle. Transitioning from a glamorized lounge singer, to a nun shows tremendous resolve. (Flexibility) a. Delores runs to the police to report the crime, and L.T. Eddie Souther puts her in a witness protection at St. Catherine’s Convent. She is not receptive at first, however. b. Moves from Nevada to San Francisco. She is faced with a transition that causes her a certain level of dismay. c. Delores is constantly changing her physical appearances and attributes to conform to her environment. From tight alluring club dresses she wore performing, to the nun-attire she wore at the convent. 2. After Delores witnessed the murder of the chauffeur, she has induced the...
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...1. In the case of Retrotonics, Masters’ management style has several features ,such as disrespecting and improper decision-making. Firstly, Masters ignored his subordinates’ feeling which make them embarrassed. For example, the production manager, Lee, who suffered Masters’ criticism in front of other employees(Drew 1998, para 4). Although employees need the evaluation from the manager, they tend to accept the criticism privately. Another factor of Masters’ management style is making decisions in improper ways. According to Drew(1998, para 3), Master set difficult and stressful deadlines for the staff. This is the main reason why employees in engineering apartment are stressed. Therefore, those decisions that Masters made have negative effects on both staff and productivity. 2. There are three management styles are suit for Masters’ situation, in terms of delegating, democratic style and autocratic style. Firstly, delegating which is an important competence for managers. Delegating can avoid to interferes in management. In Masters’ case, Imakito and Lee are experienced and professional in their work. Hence, delegating assignments to them is a method to achieve the business goals effectively. Furthermore, democratic style which encourage employees to share their own opinions and advice is suit for manage the engineering department, because most staff in this department are experts in their work(Hickey et al 2005, pp.27-31). Having more discussions and communication with those...
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...Webster University Michael A. Kirby MNGT 5000 OB S1 2014 Management Spring I Term Paper Date February 27, 2014 Introduction: Bloomberg L.P. is a privately-held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg L.P. comprises approximately one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenues of $6.9 billion (Shetty, n.p.). Bloomberg L.P. was founded by Michael Bloomberg with the assistance of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, and Charles Zegar--with a 30% ownership stake put off by Merrill Lynch--in 1981 (Shetty,n.p.). The company provides financial software tools, such as analytics and an equity trading platform, data services and news to financial companies and organizations around the world through Bloomberg Professional Services--its core revenue-generating service. Bloomberg L.P. has grown to include a global news service, including radio, television, the internet and print publications (Shetty, n.p.). Its CEO during its formative years was Michael Bloomberg who exhibited an generally autocratic style of management. D.L. Rogers Corp. is a company based in Bedford, Texas whose primary business consists of owning 54 franchises of Sonic Corp.--the drive-in restaurants that are common in the U.S. Southeast. At Sonic's eateries--which accounted for $44 million in revenues for D.L. Rogers in 2012 — carhops rollerskate out to serve customers through...
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...Business Foundations Part 1: Human resource management 1. Identify three human resource problems that are evident at the Last Resort Retirement Community? Each problem should be explained in 100 words or less. Approaches to Leadership is an evident Human Resource problem, the CEO of Last Resort’s Community’s participative management style (free-rein style) differed from the newly hired Director Gersick’s autocratic management style. Kerrigan delegated the decision – making authority to levels of management at various points below the top level. This pattern of decentralized organization decision – making was effective when his past Director of Nursing Martha Kane was acting as the informal leader in the nursing home her strong problem solving skill was effective in maintaining morale and professionalism amongst the departments. However, once Martha had left the organization the decision making hierarchy was unclear and with the introduction of a new director along with her centralized decision making philosophy chaos and confusion was created amongst the departments. The current organization chart does not provide a clear understanding the authority level. This was demonstrated during a discussing between Kerrigan and Gersick regarding the performance of a physical therapist. Employee Behaviour is one of the Human resources problems that is evident at the Last Resort, the negative performance behaviours of the department heads and Managers have also resulted in...
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...28962_Enterprise 9/6/08 10:08 Page 1 Using a range of management styles to lead a business Introduction For organisations to develop they require a direction. The people who manage the business provide the direction. Taking responsibility for making decisions and running a business well is a skill. Businesses place considerable emphasis on getting the right people with the right skills into key posts. They need to ensure that these people have the opportunities to develop decision-making skills. Enterprise Rent-A-Car (Enterprise) employs more than 75,000 employees and operates a fleet of cars exceeding one million vehicles worldwide. It has become one of the foremost car-hire companies and is the largest purchaser of cars in the world. Jack Taylor founded the company in St Louis in 1957. The owner had a simple belief: ‘Take care of your customers and employees first and profits will follow.’ This belief forms the foundation of Enterprise’s four key business objectives of: • customer satisfaction • fleet growth • employee development • profitability. CURRICULUM TOPICS • Leadership • Autocratic style • Democratic style • Laissez-faire style GLOSSARY Business objectives: the ends which an organisation seeks to achieve by means such as budgeting tools and strategies. Service-orientated: when the organisation’s behaviour is centred on meeting customers’ needs. Repeat business: when customers return to use a company’s services again. ...
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...ANCIENT INDIAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS & PRACTICES The management of organizations including people management — is turning out to be a challenging task in the present international scenario. As a science, management is developing at a phenomenal pace. The political, economic, and social environments are all changing at an equally rapid speed. “For our purposes the word mythology has two related meanings. Firstly it refers to a collection of myths that together form a mythological system. Thus one can speak of "Egyptian Mythology", "Indian Mythology", "Maori Mythology" or "Greek Mythology". In this sense one is describing a system of myths which were used by a particular society at some particular time in human history. It is also possible to group mythologies in other ways” By Bernard Doyle Myth is subjective truth. Management is about people. Every person has a subjective truth. So connecting the two made sense. Though mythology may seem an odd source to take management reference but Indian Mythology is one of the richest elements of Indian Culture and also has an effect on the individual living in India. So does it affect the Indian managers to deal with situations that they come across. Indian mythology tells us about various Indian management system and practices some of them are:- Improvisation Improvisation means to perform from material and sources available at a particular time without any prior planning. “The only certainty is that nothing is certain” Pliny...
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...As you may know, different management styles are required in different parts of the world. It is important to choose the right management style for each situation, which is a key to success for an organization. All managers use a management process which consists of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. So they have to perform many roles in an enterprise. What they can do with various situations will totally depend on their style of management. A management style is an overall method of leadership used by a manager (Lessem et al, 1999). This essay will first demonstrate different types of management styles, and then discuss three key factors that can influence management style, with reference to Japan and America. Each of the management style below has its unique features and if they will be well understood and used, they can give scope to maximum effect in the specific field. In daily management, there are usually four management styles. The first is autocratic management style (Wallace et al, 1988) which also called instructive management style. In instructive management style, managers give instructions to the subordinates or teams about what to do, how to do, when to do in every possible way without getting any opinion or suggestion. The management behavior module is: I come to decide what you would do. It might save time when making decisions, but it could lessen the motivation of the staff. Autocratic management style may be suitable in circumstances when a quick...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Contentes Page No. Introduction: 2 The Role of Innovation in Organizations: 2 Innovation and other similar terminologies: 3 Benefits and limitations of Innovation: 3 Innovation Audit: 4 Benefits of being more innovative: 5 Managerial Style for Innovation: 6 Climate of Innovative Organization: 8 REFERENCES 9 Introduction: Innovation is a common phenomenon among the organizations around the world in the current business scenarios. Finding a new solution to an existing product, process, services, technologies or ideas and meet the newer constraints of the market or society is innovation. The term can be used in the sense of finding something original which breaks into the market or into society and considered as important finding in some way. Innovation can be viewed in different perspectives. From individual perspective, innovation is to most of the extent compared as the creativity. While in social perspective, innovation has been a widespread study in the fields of economics, business, sociology, entrepreneurship, technology etc. Improving the older way of doing things and providing comfort to the users or people is known as innovation in societal view. In other words, finding an added value meeting customer’s existing needs or a newer development that meets new needs is innovation. From organizational point of view, innovation is a positive change in the organizational...
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