Buisness

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Business Administration ‘The Human Side of Organizations’ was a very valuable course for my learning process and my future career. There were many of different aspects of business management that I learned throughout this course. In addition and more importantly there were some aspects of this course that I feel will help me in my future particular area of career interest.
The first aspect of the course that I felt was interesting was managers. This section not only included what a manager did, the different types of managers but more importantly the skills one must obtain in order to become a successful manager. There are three main skills technical, human and conceptual skills. The first technical skill is the ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise. Human skills are the ability to work with understand and motivate other people both individually and in a group. The third skill that a manager must posses is conceptual skills. This is the mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations. Managers must use all three of these skills in different situations in order to be a well rounded, affective and successful manager.
Another very interesting part of the course that I learned was what actually a bureaucracy was. I have had many misinterpretations of what a bureaucracy consisted of or actually what it was. I have heard the term many times and had a much different meaning than what it actually entailed. A bureaucracy is a structure with highly routine operating tasks achieved through specialization, very formalized rules and regulations, tasks that are grouped into functional departments, centralized authority, narrow spans of control and decision making that follows the chain of command. There are many strengths of a bureaucracy. The functional economies of scale, minimum duplication of personnel and equipment, enhanced communication and centralized decision making. There are also weaknesses however such as ...