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Learning Activity #1 – Theme 1
This week students learn about organizational theory and the relationship to the role of 21stcentury manager. A manager is a person whose job it is to direct the implementation and achievement of a subset of organizational goals. Organizational theory is a field of study that has evolved in the last one hundred years to offer assistance to managers in the way they approach their job in an effort to accomplish the organizations vision and mission. The 21stcentury manager is a person who organizes executes and plans the process and production of an organization. Traditionally the role of the manager as defined by organizational theory has been the person who sets short term goals for the organization to execute and performs tasks that include the process procedure and production of the organizations purpose or vision. The modern role of the manager still includes these tasks but has developed to include the role of facilitator in the way the manager accomplishes the organizational goals assigned to his or her control.
Learning Activity #2- Theme2
As we saw in theme one the role of the manager has changed from the 20thcentury to the 21stcentury with the manager becoming more people-centric in the execution of their tasks.