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Unit 3
Term | Definition |
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Management | Process that involves a manager working with people and using other resources such as money and equipment to achieve goals. |
characterisitcs of managers | Decisive, initiative, good with people, hard worker, flexible, charismatic |
Managing Activities | Planning, organising, controlling |
Management SKills | leading, motivating, communicating |
Leadership | It is the ability to direct people, give them instructions and make them follow and obey you. |
Autocratic Leadership | manager makes all the decisions without consulting employees |
Democratic Leadership | Manager involves employees when making decisions |
Laissez Faire Leadership | The manager does not interfere with how employees do their work. |
Delegation | This is when a manager gives some of their work to an employee to do for them. |
Motivation | This involves the manager energising employees and providing them with incentives so that they will cooperate and work harder |
Motivation Theories | Mc Gregor Theory X and Y Maslow - Hierachy of Need |
Communication | This involves transferring information from one person to another. |
Types of Communicaiton | Internal and External |
Internal Communication | Internal communicaiton can be upward, downward or horizontal. it is between two or more parties inside the same business. |
Examples of Internal Communication | Notice Board, Internal Phone, suggestion box, memo, pager, intercom |
External Communication | This is between a business and other people outside the business |
Examples of External Communication | Telephone, E mail, Letter, Video COnferencing, Press Conferencing |
Written Communicaiton | Letter, Fax, E-mail, Reports The written word |
Oral Communicaiton | The Spoken word - Face to face conversations, Intercom, telephone, Meeting |
Visual Communicaiton | Pictures symbols, diagrams and maps. Exampls, Bar charts, Pie Charts, Line Graph |
Barriers to Effective Communicaiton | Language, Prejudice, Information overload, Poor listening skills, trust, Timing |