Management

Management is the directing and guiding of activities to produce a desired result, product, or services. Managers are repeatedly required to make decisions that will have far-reaching effects. The basic functions all managers perform are planning, organizing, staffing, motivating, and directing. Professional education in management can lead to a variety of career opportunities in the private and public sectors. Management graduates experience success as human resource managers, pharmaceutical representatives and management trainees.

SampleTasks (from O*Net):

  • Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.
  • Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
  • Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
  • Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.
  • Review forms and reports, and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, and to identify problems and improvements.
  • Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.
  • Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
  • Prepare manuals and train workers in use of new forms, reports, procedures or equipment, according to organizational policy.
  • Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
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Sample Career Paths:

  • Account Executive
  • Administrative Aide
  • Advertising Executive
  • Bank Manager
  • Benefits Manager
  • Business Analyst
  • College Administrator
  • Consultant
  • Government Service Administrator
  • Hotel Manager
  • Human Resources Manager
  • Hospital Management
  • Hospital Administrator
  • International Business Manager
  • Industrial Business Manager
  • Industrial Relations Director
  • Labor Relations Manager
  • Market Research Manager
  • Media Planner
  • Occupational Analyst
  • Production/Operational Manager
  • Public Utilities Manager
  • Public Relations Manager
  • Quality Control Analyst
  • Retail Manager
  • Real Estate Agent/Broker
  • Sales Manager
  • Staffing Manager

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Last Edited: 9/6/2007