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BUS 140 · What Is Management? The Five Operations

Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

1 modules 1 module · ~30 minutes Business Updated yesterday

A thirty-minute working session with the Druckerian Management Simulacrum applying the five operations of management — set objectives, organise, motivate, measure, develop people — to a real role.

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  1. Module 1

    What Is Management? The Five Operations

    Led by Druckerian Management Simulacrum

    The question

    A working session built around your own role. The first sub-unit gives you Drucker's working list of what management actually consists of — the five operations: setting objectives, organising, motivating and communicating, measuring, and developing people — and asks you to admit which of the five you currently neglect. The second walks the famous distinction between effectiveness and efficiency, asking you to name one specific task you do efficiently that probably should not be done at all. The third has you categorise yesterday's working hours against the five operations and identify the one that is being systematically starved.

    Outcome

    You leave with the five operations of management named and your past working day mapped against them, including the operation you have been systematically neglecting and one task you do efficiently that probably should not be done at all.

    Sub-units

    1. 1.1 The Five Operations
    2. 1.2 Effectiveness Versus Efficiency
    3. 1.3 Audit Yesterday's Hours