Summary: People, Organisation And Environment

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• 1 Week 1

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• What is the job for a team leader

  Responsible for facilitating tea activities toward the goal accomplishment

• What are sub roles of a interpersonal roles --> speak with people/relationships

  • Figurehead role ; ceremonial duties 
    
  • leader role; motivate and encourage workers/ guiding and coaching 
  • liaison role; dealing with people outside group (networking)
    

• What is the point of bureaucratic and administrative management

  Improve org functioning

• What is the point of operations and information management

  Increase production/quality/ services and speed through systems and tech

• What is systems management

  Seeing org and surroundings as one interacting systems

• What is a subsystem

  Smaller systems that operate within the context of a larger system

• What is a open system

  Sustain themselves only by interacting with their environments

• What are the pratical implications of contingency management

  • Management is harder than it looks; cannot quickly solve a company’s problems in a few steps
  • Managers must pay attention to key contingencies that differentiate situations and problems

• 2 Week 2

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• What are external enviroments

  All events outside a company that can influence or affect it
  
  Basic characteristics
  − Environmental change
  − Environmental complexity
  − Resource scarcity

• What environmental complexity

  The number and the intensity of external factors in the environment that affect organizations
  
  Simple environment: Has few factors − 
  Complex environment: Has many factors − Example – Fashion retail