Dr Ibrahim Al Saudi

Management Functions

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Dr Ibrahim Al Saudi

Five schools of MGMTManagement schools

5 schools of Management

Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.

Maslow was the first psychologist to identify these needs

1=Food, survival

3=belonging, love, group,

4=Respect,

5=want to do what can do best

2-Personnel Motivation

Theory X: Workers are inherently Lazy, requires supervision.Theory Y : Workers are active, eager to work, requires no supervision.

PM must understand the personal needs.

Personnel Motivation

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Leadership

Leadership

Projects are customer focused

Ability: Has necessary knowledge, experience, Skills

Willingness: Has necessary confidence, commitment, motivation

Effective leaders are neither pure task or relationship behavioralists, but maintain a balance between them

RISK MANAGEMENT