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CSC350: Learning Management Systems

This lecture explores the significance of managers, management systems, and the management process. It discusses the mistakes made by managers and the importance of organizational resources in achieving goals. The lecture also covers classical and contemporary management skills and the significance of learning management careers.

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CSC350: Learning Management Systems

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  1. CSC350: Learning Management Systems COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (Virtual Campus)

  2. Lecture # 2Understanding Managers & Management System

  3. Overview of Previous Lecture 1. Objectives 2. Introduction • Learning • Management • System (s) 3. Significance of the Subject 4. Importance of Management

  4. Topics of Discussion • Significance of Managers • Management System • Management Process & Functions • Mistakes Made by Mangers • Process and Organizational Resources • Effectiveness With Efficiency • Management Skills: Classical and Contemporary • Learning Management Careers

  5. Significance of Managers • The Role of Management • Guide organizations toward goal accomplishment • Combine and use organizational resources to ensure organizations achieve their purpose • Encourage individual activities are focused on reaching organizational goals • Focus on activities or other factors that may get in the way of goal achievement Essentially, managers never take their minds off goal accomplishment

  6. Defining Management System • A process/series of related activities • Focused on reaching organizational goals • Working with and through people and other organizational resources

  7. Management Process & Functions • Planning • Setting organizational goals • Identifying actions to achieve the goals • Organizing • Determining tasks and groupings of work • Assigning tasks to individuals in the organization

  8. Management Process & Functions.. • Influencing • Working with people within organizations • Guiding the activities of organization members in appropriate directions • Controlling • Monitoring and measuring organizational performance • Determining if organization should be modified to meet pre-established standards

  9. Mistakes Made by Mangers

  10. Management Process and Organizational Resources • The four functions of management are interrelated • Performance of one function depends on performance of the others • Managers use these activities solely for reaching organizational goals

  11. Management Process and Organizational Resources..

  12. Process & Resources… • Organizational Resources • Human • Monetary • Raw Materials • Capital • Managerial Effectiveness • When resources are used to achieve goals, managers are effective • Managerial Efficiency • When resources contribute to productivity, managers are efficient

  13. Process and Resources…

  14. Effectiveness With Efficiency

  15. Universality of Management • Principles of management are universal • Functions of management are universal • Theory of Characteristics • Henry Fayol – All managers should possess certain characteristics • B. C. Forbes – Emphasized importance of personal qualities

  16. What are Management Skills? • Defining Management Skill • Ability to carry out process of reaching organizational goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources • Companies focus on developing managerial skills to enhance the manager’s and organization's abilities to achieve goals

  17. Classical View of Mgt. Skill • Technical • Ability to apply specialized knowledge and expertise to work-related procedures • Human • Building cooperation with team being led • Conceptual • Ability to see the organization as a whole

  18. Classical View of Mgt. Skill…

  19. A Contemporary View of Management Skill • Task-Related • Efforts aimed at carrying out critical management-related duties • People-Related • Efforts aimed at managing people in the organization • Change-Related • Efforts aimed at modifying organizational components

  20. A Contemporary View of Management Skill

  21. Management Careers • Career • Sequence of work-related positions occupied by a person over a period of their lifetime • Careers are cumulative • Management positions at one level are stepping stones to management positions in a higher level

  22. Career Stages, Life Stages, & Performance

  23. Planning Your Career Path

  24. Special Career Issues • Women • Growth in proportion of men to women in management ranks seems to have changed very little in 10 years • Dual-Career Couples • Equal work and shared responsibilities of spouses • Whose career takes precedence?

  25. Women in Management

  26. Conclusions • Management and Learning the Management is Important • Learning Improves the Management Skills and Efficiency • Improvement in the skills and management efficiency help professionals in career • Career is a cumulative concept built over the professional lifetime. • System plays significant role in the learning and management. • Software and their application is mandatory to compete in the competitive world.

  27. Books • Introducing Modern Management: Concepts and Skills by Samuel C. Certo & S. TrevisCerto. • Learning Microsoft Office 2013, Advanced Student Edition by Suzanne Weixel, FaitheWempen& Catherine Skintik

  28. Thank You

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