manager
(noun)
A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.
Examples of manager in the following topics:
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Definition of Management
- This view opens the opportunity to manage oneself, a pre-requisite to attempting to manage others.
- There are different types of management styles, and the management process has changed over recent years.
- The addition of work teams and servant leadership has changed what is expected from managers, and what managers expect from their employees.
- There is a hierarchy of employees, low level management, mid-level management, and senior management.
- In traditional management systems, the manager sets out expectations for the employees who need to meet goals, but the manager receives the reward of meeting those goals.
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Management Levels: A Hierarchical View
- Examples of top-level managers include a company's board of directors, president, vice-president and CEO; examples of middle-level managers include general managers, branch managers, and department managers; examples of low-level managers include supervisors, section leads, and foremen.
- General managers, branch managers, and department managers are all examples of middle-level managers.
- Middle-level managers devote more time to organizational and directional functions than top-level managers.
- Also referred to as first-level managers, low-level managers are role models for employees.
- These managers provide:
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Introduction
- understand three of the most important operations management practices: Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, and Just-in-Time/Lean Operations
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The Need for Management
- IBM is still in business today due to the management skills of Louis V.
- The purpose of management is to serve customers.
- Yet, if one looks through most management books for a definition of management, 99.9 percent of the time the word customer will not be mentioned.
- Equally remiss is the fact that most definitions of management neatly filter out service in their descriptions of management.
- Since most managers are responsible for more work than one person can normally perform, a good manager delegates and integrates his or her work (or the work of others).
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The Role of Financial Managers
- Financial managers perform data analysis and advise senior managers on profit-maximizing ideas.
- Financial managers typically:
- There are distinct types of financial managers, each focusing on a particular area of management.
- Credit managers oversee the firm's credit business.
- Financial managers must be skilled in math, including algebra.
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The role of the astute manager
- Any other decision on the part of the manager merely serves the manager (in a nod to the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, I refer to the four major managerial weaknesses depicted in FIGURE 4-1 as ‘the Four Horseman of the Managerial Psyche').
- For example, if an employee approaches a manager with a sustainable cost-saving idea and the manager says ‘no', the manager is probably serving his or her ego (few words show that a manager has superiority over a subordinate than the word ‘no').
- If the manager says ‘no' because he or she is not sure if the idea will work, insecurity is perhaps to blame (a manager's job is to find out how or if new ideas will work).
- If the manager says ‘no' because implementing the idea will involve additional work (as new practices often do in their initial stages), the manager is probably serving his or her incompetence.
- Lastly, if the manager says ‘no'because he or she is just being stubborn, or the idea will allow someone else to shine, the manager's greed (or selfishness) is most probably being served.
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Marketing Information Systems
- A marketing information system is a management information system designed to support marketing decision making.
- Marketing intelligence is the province of entrepreneurs and senior managers within an agribusiness.
- In addition it involves management in talking to producers, suppliers and customers, as well as to competitors.
- A marketing information system is a management information system designed to support marketing decision making.
- To manage a business well is to manage its future and this means that management of information, in the form of a company wide"Management Information System" (MIS) of which the MkIS is an integral part, is an indispensable resource to be carefully managed just like any other resource that the organization may have e.g., human resources, productive resources, transport resources and financial resources.
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The role of the manager
- This means visiting actual situations, asking about performance issues, seeking out root causes, and showing respect for lower-level managers (as well as colleagues) by asking hard questions until good answers emerge.
- Most importantly, the lean manager realizes that no manager at a higher level can or should solve a problem at a lower level (Womack calls this one of the worst abuses of lean management).
- Instead, the role of the higher-level manager is to help the lower-level manager tackle problems through delegation and dialogue by involving everyone involved with the problem.
- The lean manager also realizes that problem-solving is about experimentation by means of ‘plan–do–check' with the expectation that mistakes do happen and that experiments yield valuable learning that can be applied to the next round of experiments.
- Lastly, the lean manager knows that no problem is solved forever.
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Brand Management Strategies
- Brand management is the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand.
- Brand management is the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand.
- The discipline of brand management was started at Procter & Gamble as a result of a famous memo by Neil H.
- A Brand Manager is a marketing manager for management, also called product manager.
- Brand management is the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand.
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Conceptual Thought
- Using their conceptual skills, manager are able to study a situation and figure out how to break it down into manageable pieces.
- A scheme of management skills was suggested by Robert L.
- Conceptual skills are probably some of the most important management skills.
- Indeed, at these higher levels of management, organizations require these skills.
- Conceptual skills are probably some of the most important management skills.