Better Manager 7th prelims:Better Manager 7th edition

Show interest – if you engage with people and listen to them they are more likely to want to network with you. Ask people if yo ...

How to set objectives One of your most important tasks as a manager is to make sure that the members of your team understand wha ...

Work objectives Work or operational objectives refer to the results to be achieved or the contribution to be made to the accompl ...

reduce cost per unit of output by 2.5 per cent by 30 June) or in terms of projects to be completed (open distribution depot in N ...

individual’s capacity to achieve the objectives; these could include lack of resources (money, time, equipment, support from oth ...

reached. The target may be to achieve a specified level of output or to improve performance in some way. Targets may be expresse ...

effect state: ‘this job or task will have been well done if... (the following things happen)’. Junior or more routine jobs are l ...

■ Performance will be up to standard if proposals for new product development are fully supported by data provided from properly ...

How to deal with office politics OFFICE POLITICS – GOOD OR BAD? To be politic, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, you c ...

like this. They manoeuvre behind people’s backs, blocking proposals they do not like. They advance their own reputation and care ...

sion-makers when they are involved in developing new approaches and getting things done. Before coming to a final conclusion and ...

DANGERS The danger of politics, however, is that they can be carried to excess, and they can then seriously harm the effectivene ...

USE OF POLITICS There are occasions when a subtle appeal rather than a direct attack will pay dividends; and sometimes you have ...

The finance director was a more difficult person to convince. He could easily assess the costs but found it difficult to accept ...

How to organize An effective enterprise ensures that collective effort is organized to achieve specific ends. Organizing involve ...

The structure must be appropriate to the organization’s purpose, technology and the environment in which it exists. It must be f ...

crises by deciding what they wish to be and then pursuing it with a healthy obsession.’ Organization design is always an empiric ...

Levels in the structure Too many levels of management and supervision inhibit communication and teamwork and create extra work ( ...

Decentralization Authority to make decisions should be delegated as close to the action as possible. Optimize the structure Deve ...

■ Group related activities carried out by teams and individual jobholders logically into organizational units while ensuring tha ...