Leadership & Management Review

Planning

A management function that includes anticipating trends and determining the best strategies and tactics to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

Organizing

A management function that includes designing the structure of the organization. Also, creating conditions and systems in which everyone and everything work together to achieve the organization's goals and objectives. Obtaining and coordinating resources so that a business's objectives can be met.

Staffing

A management function that includes hiring, motivating, and retaining the best people available to accomplish the company's objectives. Recruiting, developing, and hiring the most qualified people.

Decentralized Authority

Allows organizations to remain agile, fast, and adaptable with almost every employee receiving a high level of personal agency.

Line Authority Organization

An organization structure in which decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of management.

Centralized Authority

An organizing structure where the main unit has the power, right, and ability to control smaller units. An organization structure in which decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of management.

Position Power

Based on the authority the leader has in an organization based on title. (example; the boss) Influence derived from one's formal structural position in the organization; includes power to hire, fire, discipline, promote, and give salary increases.

Reward Power

Based on the leader's ability to give/withhold rewards (not salary/wages). The ability of a manager to give or withhold tangible and intangible rewards (not salary / wages).

Expert Power

Based on the special knowledge, skills, and expertise that a leader possesses. The group members recognize a leader's superior knowledge in a specific area.

Two Types of Authority

Centralized Authority Decentralized Authority

Departmentalization

Divides responsibility among specific units, or departments.

Self-Managed Teams

Groups of employees with the authority and skills to manage themselves. Groups of workers who are given administrative oversight for their task domains.

Controlling

Monitoring performance, comparing it with goals, and taking corrective action as needed within an organization. Setting standards for work, evaluating performance, and solving problems that prevent certain task completion.

Five Functions of Management

Planning Organizing Staffing Leading / Directing / Implementing Controlling

Four Types Leadership Power

Position Power Reward Power Expert Power Identity Power

Identity Power

Stems from the personal trust and respect members have for the leader; charisma.

Directing / Leading / Implementing

The management function of providing guidance to workers and work projects. Influencing, guiding, and directing people under one's management to carry out their assigned tasks.