Skill Development at it’s Best                                Topics
           •    Introduction
                  – Management
                          •  Overview and key components
                          •  Management as a Field
                  – What are Organizations?
                  – Management Functions & Roles
                  – Management Skills
                  – Management in changing environment
                  – Why Management?
                  – Rewards and difficulties of being a manager
           • History and Evolution of Management
                  – Important Contributions
                  – Some Trends
           •    Organizational & Environmental Constraints
                  – Environmental Effects
                  – Important Environmental Elements
                  – Internal Vs. External Environment
                  – Global Environment & Management
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       Outline of Today’s Lecture
      •   Supporting Disciplines for 
          Management
      •   Historical Background
      •   Important Contributions
      •   Some Trends and Issues
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         Remember the Foundations of Modern 
                                              Management
       •    Early examples of management
              – Pyramids
              – Wars
              – Great Wall of China
       •    Key pre-1900 events
              – Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations
                    •  Outlines division of labor
              – Industrial Revolution
                    •  Emergence of large organizations
       •    Modern Management
              – Formal Organizational Structures
              – Traditional Management Styles
       •    We are in the Post Modern 
            Management Era
              – Globalization
              – Mergers & Alliances
              – Information & Knowledge Worker
                                                                                        Adam Smith
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        Management’s Connection to other Fields of 
                                         Study
      • Academic Disciplines that Affected Management
          – Anthropology - work on cultures and social environments
          – Economics - concern about the allocation and distribution of 
             scarce resources
          – Philosophy - examines the nature of things
          – Political science - effect of political environment on 
             individuals and groups
          – Psychology - seeks to measure, explain, and change human 
             behavior
          – Sociology - studies people in relation to their fellow human 
             beings
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    Development of Major Management Theories
                                        Management Theories
                            Classic                                         Ne
                            al                                              w
     Historical                         General
    Background         Scientific                      Quantitative   Organizational
                     Management      Administrative     Approach        Behaviour
                                       Theorists
         Early Examples                                         Early Advocates
         of Management
                                                              Hawthorne Studies
          Adam Smith
                                                              Open System Theory
          Industrial
         Revolution                                           Contingency Theory
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