engineering management - 1,2.pptx

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Outline

• Management in general• Skills required by engineering managers• Roles of engineering managers• Responsibilities of engineering managers•

Management Functions• Management styles• Organizational structures• Problem management• Strategic management• Decision making• Time management



History of Management

• First business school as founded at the!ni"ersity of Philadelphia in #$$#%

• &fter #'' years there are more than (''

business schools in !S&%• The )rst to *ritish business schools ere

established in #+,( in -ondon.Manchester%• The &merican management association

/&M&0 as founded in #+12 in !3% The

institute of management formed in #+4$%• Management as a practice is not ne but

management as a profession is relati"elyne%



Why Management now adays?

• Most of the time ideas are concei"ed byindi"iduals%

• *ut to con"ert those ideas into reality and

to take them into market you need a largemulti5talented team%

• The acti"ity of these team members needto be coordinated and organized%

• *ecause the acti"ities of the ell5organized

team gi"es greater le"erage than acti"itiesof indi"iduals%

• Therefore e need management tocoordinate the acti"ities of multi5disciplinedteam for e6cient outcome%



Is Management is a Scienceor Art?

What is science?• Science includes di7erent formulas8

techniques8 methods8 las andstrategies based on research andanalysis%

• Management is a science because itincludes di7erent formulas8techniques8 methods8 las and

strategies based on research and



What is Art?

&RT is the ability to apply anything8so Management is an &RT because itdepends upon an indi"idual that ho

he applies these formulas8techniques8 and las to handle reallife situations%



Why Management isunpredictable?

• Management is often di"ided intomanagement of people and

management of tasks• 9oe"er8 tasks are also performed

through people%• So ultimately e"erything leads to

people%• &nd the beha"ior of the people is

mostly unpredictable8 thus managementis also unpredictable%



What is Management?

:Management is the process ofcreating and maintaining anen"ironment in hich di7erent

indi"iduals orking together in groupe6ciently achie"e the desiredob;ecti"es%<



Calm Seas Case

asneem !han• Promoted to =M to years ago• Today ha"en>t done any of the tasks from

things to do list•

?hile on the ay to o6ce recei"ed a callfrom sales person• @ntering to the organization read a notice

to manufacturing super"isors are needed• Talked to personal for arrangement of car• @mails• Met to layer for land purchase• @"ery one left the building and T3 is at zero

as for as her :Things to do list< is concerned



he Manager"s #ob

• @Atremely di6cult to describe• Bob descriptions eAist but all ill be

di7erent• Bob is fragmented and continuously

changing• Planning becomes so di6cult ith so

many interruptions• Di6cult to get done hat needs to

be done•

Cndustry to industry "ariation in ;ob



Manager"s $ob itles

Some of the titles are• Team or area leader• Mid le"el manager• Department head• ice president• President

• Managing director



Why Engineers %eedManagement



Why Engineers %eedManagement&&



EngineeringManagement 'omain



(roblem )aced byEngineering Managers

• Mostly engineers are shifted inmanagement rather than adopting it as acareer%

•

They are usually at the peak of theircreati"ity and engineering acti"ity henthey are promoted into managementposition as a reard of good ork%

•

They are supposed to lea"e a career inhich they ha"e lot of eAperience to acareer in hich they ha"e no eAperience%

• Thus good engineers not necessarily be

good managers unless they de"elop



S*ills +e,uired forEngineering Manager

• Technical Skills• 9uman Skills

• Eonceptual Skills• Diagnostic Skills• Eommunication Skills• D ecision M aking Skills• Tim e M anagem ent Skills

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