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Solution

Sol: The managers’ tasks of planning, organizing, directing and evaluating for their organization existed long before computers and its technologies and they had accomplished as well as contributed many great things to the business world. However, what’s more important is the ability to change and successfully adapt to computer’s age so that with the ever changing of technologies, the managers with the help of computers can manage those tasks more timely and efficiently. Management involves coordinating and overseeing the work activities of others so that their activities are completed efficiently and effectively.

   -Coordinating and overseeing the work of others is what distinguishes a managerial position from a nonmanagerial one.

   -Efficiency is getting the most output from the least amount of inputs in order to minimize resource costs. Efficiency is often referred to as “doing things right” Effectiveness is completing activities so that organizational goals are attained and is often described as “doing the right things”

Management Functions

According to the functions approach managers perform certain activities to efficiently and effectively coordinate the work of others. They can be classified as

   -Planning involves defining goals, establishing strategies for achieving those goals, and developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities.

   -Organizing involves arranging and structuring work to accomplish the organization’s goals.

   -Leading involves working with and through people to accomplish organizational goals.

   -Controlling involves monitoring, comparing, and correcting work performance.

Since these four management functions are integrated into the activities of managers throughout the workday, they should be viewed as an ongoing process and they need not the done in the above sequence.

-As our life becomes more dynamic and less structured, intuition gains more and more recognition as an essential decision making tool. You have probably heard of experienced decision makers who are able to directly recognize the best option or course of action in many tricky situations. The solution just comes to them from somewhere in their subconscious mind, instead of being a result a lengthy chain of logical derivations or a computer output from a complicated Monte Carlo simulation.
   Yes, intuition can make you a much more effective decision maker, especially when you deal with non-standard situations or in expedient decision making. Yet, before you put more weight on intuitive choices, there are a few important points you need to keep in mind.

-Yes, we can count on our intuition when we had experienced of event and in a specific environment. Because it takes a long time to build intuition, and from what’ve learned and experienced can give us the answer to most likely outcome of that problem so if a problem arises, our intuition would kick in and give us instant answer that no computers could. And in specific situation or environment, we can trust our intuition because we already are familiar with the problem and maybe already found the answer. Let’s take chess for example, when we play chess, we already have planned many steps ahead, but when something happens unexpectedly, we immediately have a respond to counter it. And to get that intuition, we have to play and practice for a long time. In some cases we wouldn’t count too much on our intuition because we often apply it inconsistently and we don’t know where the ideas or answers come from. They just come to us as we needed. An example is picking numbers for lottery. We use our little intuition when picking these numbers but we don’t know why or where they from, so we just pick them.