1. PowerPoint Presentation to Accompany Chapter 1 of Management Fundamentals Canadian Edition Schermerhorn  Wright

2. Planning Ahead — Chapter 1 Study Questions
What are the challenges of working in the new economy?
What are organizations like in the new workplace?
Who are managers and what do they do?
What is the management process?
How do you learn the essential managerial skills and competencies?
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3. Overview of the 21st century workplace
Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing society.
Economy is global and driven by innovation and technology.
High performing companies gain extraordinary results from people working for them.
Interdependent, knowledge based
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What is CAPITAL?
Financial capital can refer to money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services or to that sector of the economy based on its operation, i.e. retail, corporate, investment banking, etc.
Real Capital or Economic Capital comprises physical goods that assist in the production of other goods and services, e.g. shovels for gravediggers, sewing machines for tailors, or machinery and tooling for factories.
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5. Study Question 1: What are the challenges of working in the new economy?
Intellectual capital
People are the ultimate foundation of organizational performance.
Intellectual capital is the collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce that can be used to create value.
A knowledge worker adds to the intellectual capital of an organization.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Intellectual Capital

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Human Capital
The value that the employees of a business provide through the application of skills, know how and expertise.[4]
Human capital is an organization’s combined human capability for solving business problems. Human capital is inherent in people and cannot be owned by an organization.
Therefore, human capital can leave an organization when people leave.
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Study Question 1: What are the challenges of working in the new economy?
Globalization …
National boundaries of world business have largely disappeared.
Globalization is the worldwide interdependence of resource flows, product markets, and business competition that characterize the new economy.
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8. Study Question 1: What are the challenges of working in the new economy?
Technology …
Continuing transformation of the modern workplace through:
The Internet
World Wide Web
Computers
Information technology
Increasing demand for knowledge workers with the skills to fully utilize technology.

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Study Question 1: What are the challenges of working in the new economy?
Diversity …
Workforce diversity reflects differences with respect to gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and able-bodiedness.
A diverse and multicultural workforce both challenges and offers opportunities to employers.
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Study Question 1: What are the challenges of working in the new economy?
Ethics …
Code of moral principles.
Society requires businesses to operate according to high moral standards.
Emphasis today on restoring the strength of corporate governance
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Study Question 1: What are the challenges of working in the new economy?
Careers …
Career of 21st century won’t be uniformly full-time and limited to a single large employer
Skills must be portable and always of current value
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12. Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the new workplace?
Critical skills for success in the new workplace …
Mastery
Contacts
Entrepreneurship
Love of technology
Marketing
Passion for renewal
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13. Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the new workplace?
A collection of people working together to achieve a common purpose.
Organizations provide useful goods and/or services that return value to society and satisfy customer needs.
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14. Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the new workplace?
Organizations are open systems
Composed of interrelated parts that function together to achieve a common purpose.
Interact with their environments.
Transform resource inputs into product outputs (goods and services).
Environmental feedback tells organization how well it is meeting the needs of customers and society.
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15. Figure 1.1 Organizations as open systems.
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16. Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the new workplace?
Organizational performance
Value is created when an organization’s operations adds value to the original cost of resource inputs.
i.e. ice cream and cookies are worth $2.00 together but as a sandwich are worth $4.00
When value creation occurs:
Businesses earn a profit.
Nonprofit organizations add wealth to society.

17. Study Question 2: What are organizations like in the new workplace?
Organizational performance
Productivity
An overall measure of the quantity and quality of work performance with resource utilization taken into account.
Performance effectiveness
An output measure of task or goal accomplishment.
Performance efficiency
An input measure of the resource costs associated with goal accomplishment.
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IN SUMMARY:
Efficiency = Doing this right
Effectiveness = Doing the right things
HIGH PRODUCTIVITY = EFFICIENT + EFFECTIVE
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19. Changing nature of organizations
Belief in human capital
Demise of demand and control
Emphasis on teamwork
Pre-eminence of technology
Embrace of networking
New workforce expectations
Concern for work-life balance
Focus on speed
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Management Scenarios
Form into groups as per your card.
You have 10 minutes to brainstorm how you will present your scenario.
At least one person must play the role of the manager
Your role play should answer the following question:
How would a good/bad manager deal with this situation?
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Homework
Read pgs. Of the text book.
Answer the following question in 5 bullet points or 3 sentences:
“How do you like to be managed?”
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