Principles of management/PMAN101/Management Overview/Reading

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Overarching Principles of Management

Before you complete the reading below, consider the following questions:

1. What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness?
2. How does a manager make a group of people more effective and efficient?

In the last section, you learned that the overarching principles of management involve four critical functions which helps to outline the ideal job of a manager: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (POLC). For more information about the POLC framework, read Section 1.4 of Chapter 1 from the Principles of Management book available from Saylor Academy.

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Resource bank activity - optional

You are encouraged to help create a resource bank for this learning pathway:

• For each resource you would like to recommend to others, select the resource, log in to bookmarks.oeru.org and click on "Add" link.
• Complete the form adding the link, a short description and the recommended tags below for each resource. Be sure to mark your resource "Public":
  • Required tags= pman101, pman101a4-1
  • Suggested tags= Use appropriate keywords (lowercase preferred)
  • Link tag=pman101a4-1
• You are also encouraged to review a few resources submitted by your peers and vote for those you find valuable.