Managers and organisations

Question

Why is an organisationinterdependent with enviromental forces?

Answer 1

Because ieach influences both the organisation and its enviroment.

Answer 2

Entrepeneur - Attempting to adjust the organisation to its enviroment
Disturbance Handler
Resource Allocator - resource allocators can be as far reaching as restructuring the organisation or authorising cpital expenditure for a new plant.
Negotiator

Answer 3

The beliefs, values and assumptions people have about their particular organisation and the expected behaviour.

Answer 4

Those actions that link an organisation to specific external sectors; exchanges that make the system dynamic and open

Answer 5

By listening to the people , by focus groups, attitude surveys.

Answer 6

Monitor - Scanning the enviroment, asking questions, monitoring a network of contacts
Disseminator - When managers share information, proprietary or goal affecting information
Spokesperson

Answer 7

That systems can be open or closed

Answer 8

Workers can be dissatisfied with their work, but they can still be very productive.

Answer 9

- The reational heroic model places to much emphasis onand responsibility on the manager and not enogh on the teams and followers within the organisation.
-Heroism sets up a self-defeating cycle

Answer 10

A legacy of early descriptions and prescriptions of the nature of the managers job.

Answer 11

Any system that changes over time as structures and functions adapt to external disturbances and conditions

Answer 12

It takes in resources, turns them into goods and services, and passes along these outputs to customers and others

Answer 13

Systems that operate without enviromental or outside disturbances

Example: Wtihin a building we know that that each time we flip a specific switch the light on that circuit will turn on, unless the bulb is burned out.

Answer 14

The manager must understand the totality of his/her organisation and than influence system and components such as tasks, technology ,structure, people and perhaps even organisational culture, to achieve desired outputs.

Also managers must be aware of the enviroments in which their system operates and how external forces alter performance of interval sussystems and processes

Answer 15

Ratio of acceptable quality outputs to inputs consumed , a measure of how well the organisation achieves its goals.

Answer 16

Figurehead: they play figurehead role by participating in ceremonial duties
Leader: When acting as aleader, the manager focuses on exerting influence over people.
Liaison: The liaison role encompasses the manager's interactions with others outside his/her vertical chain of reporting relationships.

Answer 17

To adapt or transform system elements, to achieve goals within a dynamic environment. The need to understand and diagnose their systems and then influence select variables to transform system capabilities.