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Engineering and Project Management Introduction to Management
Dr. Lotfi K. Gaafar,
The American University in Cairo
Based on Management. 5th ed. By Ricky Griffin, 1996 and input from Dr. A. A. Elimam.
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Course Outline
Principles of Engineering Management The importance of management to
engineers Applications of these Principles in
Engineering Organizations
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Management
• Is getting work done through others.• Requires a set of activities (including planning and
decision making, organizing, leading, and controlling) directed at an organization’s resources (human, financial, physical, and information), with the aim of achieving organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner.
• An organization is a group of people working together in a structured and coordinated fashion to achieve a set of goals.
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Management in Organizations
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Management in Organizations
• Manager: Someone whose primary responsibility is to carry out the management process.
• Effective: Making the right decisions and successfully implementing them.
• Efficient: Using resources wisely in a cost-effective way.
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Management Functions
• Planning: Setting goals and deciding how best to achieve them.
• Decision Making: Selecting a course of action from a set of alternatives.
• Organizing: Grouping activities and resources in a logical fashion.
• Leading: Processes to get members of the organization to work together to further the interests of the organization.
• Controlling: Monitoring organizational progress toward goal attainment and taking corrective action when needed.
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Management Functions
Most managers engage in more than one activity at the same time
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Management: Origins
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What is Engineering?
The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. (ABET)
Engineer: A person applying his/her mathematical and science knowledge properly to solve practical problems.
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What is Engineering Management?
• Engineering management is a process of leading and controlling a technical function/enterprise.
• Engineering management is similar to other definitions of management, but with a slant toward technical issues.
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Management Levels and Areas
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Management LevelsLevel Type of Job
First-line Managers
Directly supervise non-managers. Carry out the plans and objectives of higher management using
the personnel and other resources assigned to them. Short-range operating plans governing what will be done
tomorrow or next week, assign tasks to their workers, supervisethe work that is done, and evaluate the performance of individual
workers.
Middle Management
Manage through other managers. Make plans of intermediate range to achieve the long-range goals
set by top management, establish departmental policies, andevaluate the performance of subordinate work units and their
managers. Provide and integrating and coordinating function so that theshort-range decisions and activities of first-line supervisory
groups can be orchestrated toward achievement of the long-rangegoals of the enterprise.
Top Management
Responsible for defining the character, mission, and objectives ofthe enterprise.
Establish criteria for and review long-range plans. Evaluate the performance of major departments, and they evaluate
leading management personnel to gauge their readiness forpromotion to key executive positions.
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Basic Managerial Skills
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Basic Managerial Roles
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Some reasons an engineering background can help prepare for an engineering management position
1. Engineers: logical, methodical, objective, and make unemotional decisions based on facts.
2. Use their technical knowledge to check the validity of information.
3. Can analyze problems thoroughly, look beyond the immediate ones, and ask good questions to explore alternative solutions to technical problems.
4. Understand what motivates engineers.
5. Can review and evaluate the work of their subordinates since they understand what they are doing.
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Some reasons an engineering background can help prepare for an engineering management position
6. Can engage in future planning with appropriate consideration for technology and its relationship to cost effectiveness.
7. Engineering backgrounds help in technical discussions with customers.
8. Their background increases the manager's credibility with subordinates, customers, and superiors. People attribute qualities, abilities, skills, and knowledge to them, which allows the manager to influence those who have that perception.
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Role Differences Between Engineers and Managers
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Role Differences Between Engineers and Managers
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Engineers Versus Managers
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Philosophical Similarities Between Engineering and Management
Both engineers and managers are trained to be decision makers in a complex environment.
Both allocate resources for the operation of existing systems or for the development of new systems.
Both have to recognize, identify and evaluate the interactions among system components. (Cleland and Kocaoglu 1981)
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The Scope of Management
• Large businesses: Most knowledge comes from large profit-seeking organizations.
• Small and Start-Up Businesses: Management is key as wrong decisions may never be recovered. This is how most businesses start. Compaq started by 3 in 1982. In 1994 76th largest with sales of $7b.
• International management: Most large organizations derive a significant portion of their business from international markets.
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Nonprofit Organizations
• Government Organizations: Subject to political and public pressure.
• Educational Organizations: Unique management and administration problems.
• Healthcare Facilities: Clinics, Hospitals, HMOs. New educational programs.
• Nontraditional Settings: Religious organizations, service organizations, households, …, etc.
Effective and efficient use of resources
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Management: the driving forces
• Social Forces: The norms and values that characterize a culture.
• Economic Forces: Economic systems and general economic conditions. Market economy. Competition.
• Political Forces: Governing institutions and general policies and attitudes. Legal cases against business.
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Management Perspectives
• Classical: Scientific (individual workers) and Administrative (whole organization)
• Behavioral: Individual attitudes and behaviors and group processes
• Quantitative: Applies quantitative techniques to management.
• Integrated: All three perspectives must be integrated for best performance (Systems and Contingency perspectives)
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Scientific Management
1) Development of a science to replace rule -of-thumb working knowledge;2) Scientific selection and development of individuals;3) Combining the results of work study with selected and trained workmen;4) Intimate, friendly co-operation between management and the workforce.
UPS:
Three feet per seconds
Knock immediately
Stores must handle 1,124 packages per hour
Load packages at the rate of 500 per hour
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ClassicalPerspective
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Behavioral Perspective: Theories X and Y
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BehavioralPerspective
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QuantitativePerspective
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Integrated Perspective
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Contemporary Perspective
Theory Z: A concept that combines the positive aspects of American and Japanese management into a modified approach aimed at increasing U.S. managerial effectiveness while remaining compatible with norms and values of the American society and culture.
Developed by William Ouchi
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• External Environment: Everything outside an organization the might affect it.
• Internal Environment: The conditions and forces within an organization.
Management Context
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The External Environment
• General Environment: The set of broad dimensions and forces in an organization’s surroundings that create its overall context
• Task Environment: Specific organizations or groups that affect the organization.
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The General Environment• The Economic Dimension: The overall health of the
economic system in which the organization operates. • The Technological Dimension: The methods available for
converting resources into products or services.• The Sociocultural Dimension: The customs, mores, values,
and demographic characteristics of the society in which the organization functions.
• The Political-legal Dimension: The government regulation of business and general relationship between business and government.
• The International Dimension: The extent to which an organization is involved in or affected by business in other countries.
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The External Environment: Example
Ford’s General Environment
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The Task Environment• Competitor: Competes for resources. • Customer: Whoever pays money to acquire an
organizations products or services.• Supplier: Provides resources.• Regulator: A unit that has the potential to control,
legislate, or otherwise influence the organization’s policies and practices
• Regulator Agency: An agency created by the government to regulate business activities.
• Interest Group: A group formed to attempt to influence business.
• Strategic Ally: Another organization working in a joint venture or a similar arrangement.
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The Task Environment: Example
Ford’s Task Environment
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Environmental Response
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Management Ethical and Social Context
• Ethics: An individual’s personal beliefs regarding what is right and wrong or good and bad.
• Ethical Behavior: Behavior that conforms to generally accepted social norms.
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Managerial Ethics
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An Example Code of Ethics
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Areas of SocialResponsibility
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Social Responsibility