Name: Ammar Hakim
Date: 9/23/2021
What Do Managers Do?
1. If you were the manager of a cookie factory with a goal to produce seven million
chocolate chip cookies per month. State 5 ways to improve productivity (effective)
while ensuring no wasted resources (efficient)?
● With your set goal of 7million cookies per month you want to make sure you are
not buying an excessive amount of resources.
○ Why - No wasted resources
● Don't buy resources that are not long lasting
○ In event of excess resources you want to be able to use them with your
following batch for the next month - Max efficiency No resources wasted
● Invest and take time on training employees to establish a good workflow and have
them comfortable with your goals expectations and necessary manner.
● Establish an organized workplace layout with easy accessibility to all departments
to allow for maximum work efficiency.
Name: Ammar Hakim
Date: 9/23/2021
2. Give some examples of what the VP of Marketing for an international hotel chain
(e.g. Best Western) would be doing in relation to the 4 functions of management.
● Planning
○ For goals they may want to achieve within their marketing or product of
marketing (sales).
○ Planning for a marketing budget
● Leadership
○ Coordinating and guiding head of the different division managers
○ Motivating for set sale goals
● Organizing
○ Setting Budget
○ Observing company trends to assist in plan making
○ Assigning various departments their responsibilities whom may need
marketing
● Controlling
○ Monitoring results over a certain measured period to evaluate progress and
possibly make alterations to plan/goal.
Name: Ammar Hakim
Date: 9/23/2021
3. Why is accountability important to managerial performance?
It is important to set an example for peers and coworkers to follow along their path.
Being in a managerial position, you are in a supervisory role which includes management
alongside watching and critiquing worker efforts. If you are able to take responsibility for
mistakes it teaches your coworkers the same. Rather than putting blame onto irrelevant
factors they are able to see necessary change within themselves and set goal to
eliminate such from happening again.
4. How much of a typical manager’s time would you expect to be allocated to these
relationships?
% of time working with subordinates?
a) 35%
b) 48%
c) 56%
% of time working with the boss?
a) 8%
b) 15%
c) 26%
% of time working with peers and outsiders?
a) 18%
b) 44%
c) 57%
5. How many hours per week does the average manager work?
50 hours
6. What amount of a manager’s time is typically spent in the following activities?
% of time
CEO
40%
% of time
Police Chief
15%
% of time
School Principal
20%
7%
5%
10%
Doing Desk Work
30%
20%
20%
Talking on the telephone
20%
20%
10%
Walking around the
organization / work site
Total
3%
40%
40%
100%
100%
100%
Scheduled Meetings
Unscheduled Meetings
Management Levels and Types of Managers
7. Complete the following chart:
Managerial Position
Level of
Manager
High school Principal
Line
Line or
Staff
Line
Functional, General or
Administrator
General
Name: Ammar Hakim
IBM Accounting Department
Manager
Manager of a Clothing Store
or Restaurant (part of a chain)
Boston Pizza Regional Sales
Manager for Northern Ont.
Lululemon Athletica VP of
Human Resources
Law Firm Executive Partner
Honda Corp. VP of Sales
IBM Accounts Payable
Supervisor
Date: 9/23/2021
Line
Line
Functional
Line
Line
General
Middle
Line
Functional
Top
Line
Functional
Line
Top
Middle
Staff
Line
Line
General
Functional
Functional
Managerial Levels: Senior/Top Level; Middle management; Supervisory/Line Managers
Line (direct contribution to organization’s outputs); Staff (support function)
Functional (Resp. for a single area of activity); General (Resp. for many functional areas);
Administrator (managers in government or non-profit organizations)