Leading
in engineering management refers to the function of an engineering manager that causes people to take effective action.
Leadership
is an influence process that enable managers to get their people to do willingly what must be done, do well what ought to be done.
Leadership
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Engineering Management - Organizing
Organizing - answer It is a management function which refers to the structuring of resources and activities to accomplish objectives in an efficient
and effective manner.
- It defines the relationship between task and authority for individuals and department
- It defines formal reporting relationship, the number of levels in the hierarchy of the organization, and the span of control
- It defines the groupings of individuals into departments and department into organization
- It defines the system to effect coordination of effort in both vertical (authority) and horizontal (task) directions. - answer The Purpose of the Structure
- Division of Labor
- Delegation of Authority
- Departmentation
- Span of Control
- Coordination - answer When structuring an organization, the engineer manager must be concerned with the following: Division of Labor - answer The determining of the scope of work and how it is combined in a job.
Delegation of Authority - answer The process of assigning various degrees of
decision making authority to subordinates.
Departmentation - answer The grouping of related jobs, activities, or processes into major organizational subunits.
Span of Control - answer The number of people who report directly to a given manager.
Coordination - answer The linking of activities in the organization that serves
to achieve a common goal or objective.
- organization chart
- organization manual
- policy manuals - answer The formal structure is describe by management through:
Formal Organization - answer It is the structure that details lines or responsibilities, authority, and position.
Organization Chart - answer It is a diagram of the organization's official positions and formal lines of authority.
Organizational Manual - answer It provides the written descriptions of authority relationships, details the functions of major organizational units, and describes job procedures.
informal group - answer when members of an organization spontaneously form a group with friendship as a principal reason for belonging.
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