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• 1 Management of Organisations in the EU

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• Top Managers - Strategic plans

    Relationships with external environment, strategic decisions, product-market combination
  Organizational and administrative decisions
  Specific actions you take in implementing your strategy

• Middle Managers - Operational plans

  Supervisors, operational level (who does what, work instruction, motivation)

•   Human relations skills; the art of

  
  •Understanding and being understood (communication)
  •Getting along with other people
  
  
  Often appreciated in middle management, because they are the bridge/liaison between lower and higher management

•   Time management skills

  How to deal with deadlines etc

•   Conceptual skills; the ability to

  
  •“think in abstract”
  • “diagnose and analyse different situations”
  •A willingness to see things differently
  •“Out of the box, beyond the present situation future thinking”

•  Hierarchical levels of Strategy

    Corporate strategy - The business you should be in
  Business or competive strategy – your tactic to beat the competition
  Functional strategy – operational methods to implement yourtactics

• How is to create a strategy?

    Operationalize by translation of strategy into plans:
  
  •Strategic
  •Tactical
  •Operational

•  Two common methodes of dealing withthe unknown and unforseen

   
  •A contingency plan A what if plan; trying to anticipate
  a eventuality
  
  
  
  •Crisis management A pressured rapid respons to an emergency

• How can you change orporate culture

  By big changes
  Merger

•  What determines an organizational structure?

    Long term mission, strategy and goals
  
  
  Organizational size
  
  
  
  
  Environment