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A 10 page paper discussing several points of management and management theory. All of the four functions of management can be found in these chapters and particularly in discussion of leadership, though the control function is the one most apparent to company workers. Planning, organizing and leading all are in evidence, as well as acknowledgment of the necessity of engaging all of the organization rather than only a portion of it. The paper includes LMX, path-goal, situational and contingency theories of leadership. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: CC6_KSmgmtStratDec.rtf
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still are used largely interchangeably, even when they should be treated as the separate entities they are. Bateman and Snell (2007) address decision-making; strategy; and leadership models in three
chapters of their most recent book. Decision Making Bateman and Snell (2007) discuss decision-making as a six-stage process. The first is to
identify a problem that needs to be addressed, ensuring that what is identified is the real problem and not merely the symptoms of the real problem.
The second step is to identify several alternatives, followed by the third stage which is evaluating the alternatives that have been identified. The next step is
to adopt one of those alternatives, or perhaps a combination of several alternatives. The fifth step is that people implement the chosen alternative solution; the sixth is that some
level of management evaluates the outcome (Bateman and Snell, 2007). In their introduction to Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society,
Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski and Flowers (2005) offer the illustration of a human hand as an example of unrecognized change and the dangers of not thinking on a level of "wholes"
but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his hand to ask his audience to identify
it, after which he explained that "the cells that made up that hand were continually dying and regenerating themselves. What seems tangible is continually changing: in fact, a hand
is completely re-created within a year or so" (Senge, et al., 2005; p. 6). The authors point is that when we look at any living system - whether biological,
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