We recapped the four management functions. 1) Planning: which defines the organization’s goal and establish a strategy to accomplish it. 2) The coordinator function: a leader/manager whose job it is to motivate employees and resolve any conflict among the staff as it arise. 3). The Controlling function: the manager taking charge to make sure all the operations of the organization, are running smoothly and monitors employee’s performance (Robbins & Judge, 2011).
Liz and Warren need to make sure that projects are prioritized, assign who is responsible for what part of each project. They know what the expectations are and coordinate resources among Senior Staff to ensure these projects are executed. According to the article “Attitude Adjustment for the Senior Management Team” (Frisch, 2012), the senior team needs to understand their role in the decision-making process. CanGo senior management can build its effectiveness through members’ collective impact on the business, focus on alignment, and identify critical dependencies within the organization’s most strategically important activities (Frisch, 2012). 2.
Question 1: Organisations such as BHP would operate a number of different performance appraisal methods. In order to ensure the success of the method implemented certain processes need to be in place. Outline the processes and documentation an organisation such as BHP would need to have in place to successfully implement performance management. * Firstly, BHP would need to assess whether all positions within their organisation are documented and available in current and accurate position descriptions. * Investigate whether managers have provided all BHP staff with performance indicators to be used in the current appraisal period, ensuring they are consistent with each staff members key role requirements, as outlined in each position description.
Chapter 2 Discussion Questions 1. The chapter suggests that a definition of strategic management includes four components: a. Developing a strategic vision and sense of mission -Vision and mission statements establish a sense of what the organization hopes to accomplish or what top managers hope it will become at some point in the future. b. Formulating, implementing, and evaluating -Projects, as the key ingredients in strategy implementation, play a crucial role in the basic process model of strategic management. c. Making cross-functional decisions -Business strategy is a corporate-wide venture, requiring the commitment and shared resources of all functional areas to meet overall objectives.
You should also ensure that team members are aware that they can contact or approach you at available times. You will need to gather as much information as possible, so things such as employee training histories, projected targets/figures and actual target/figures, time frames for tasks and who is delegated to what tasks. Explain the strategies you might use and give reasons for using these methods. Why do you consider that they are the most efficient and effective ways of involving the team in the problem solution? Individual performance reports, the team member uses it comment on their work.
You are responsible for setting work and development objectives for your team and for monitoring performance and achieving business results. Task 1: Explain why it is important for individual and team objectives to link into overall organisational objectives and, use a practical example to demonstrate how this is achieved. Identify the factors you need to take into account when agreeing objectives for your department or work area and when agreeing objectives with individual team members. Given that objectives link together and often overlap, there is a need to agree individual and collective responsibilities for the part everyone will play in their achievement. Identify how you would organise the agreement of responsibilities with team members and colleagues, using examples where possible, and acknowledge the potential pitfalls when this is not done well.
1.2 Explain the purpose of planning work, and being accountable to others for own work planning is essential to manage your time in a constructive and responsible way making sure all actions are carried out. Planning helps me to be organised on a day to day basis. While planning you have to consume as much information as possible to be able to carry out accurate notes, making your work as efficient as possible. Writing everything down has two purposes. First purpose is you are planning what you will need for example what tools are required and what the job is.
Support worker and colleague - maintaining professional duty of care and working together. Support worker and manager – agreed working ways and following the policies and procedures. Working with other agencies – being professional, clear records and communication. 2.1 The reason why it is important to adhere to the agreed scope of the job role is because it enables you to know your role and responsibilities; it sets out the boundaries in your job role, knowing your job description and your own level of skills and competence. 2.2 As there may be changes in policies within the law and your company may have to implement them to help protect the vulnerable individuals so this why it is important to have the access to full and up to date details of agreed ways of working.
No matter the type of organizational setting, leaders and managers are needed to maintain the organization moving in the correct direction. In order to keep the organization moving forward, people need to lead and manage other people. Leaders focus on the external aspect of the organization when managers focus on the internal aspects. Leaders have to ensure that the organization is operating appropriately. Leaders spend most of their time collaborating and aligning the organizational goals with external agencies.
Secondly, organizations must ensure voluntary affirmative action plans follow court ordered requirements. Management must make clear their commitment to equal opportunities to all employees. Furthermore, management should “Provide training about the plan so that all employees understand its purpose and intent. The more employees know and understand what is being done, the less likely they are to misunderstand and react adversely” (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2007, p.