a good manager

The attributes of a good manager

In my opinion, a good manager should create a positive environment for all employees, he should also be responsible for his work and team, and lastly he should be able to process the company information efficiently.  

First of all, a good manager should create a positive environment for all his employee’s, because this will help the employee’s works well together and be happy with their job. The most important thing is when the employees are assigned with a difficult task, there will be more pressure and stress as there are more unknown obstacles to face in the new task. As the manager is well prepared for the situation he should be able fix any problems that arises immediately, therefore this will help in maintaining a positive environment for all employees, helping all employees to feel happy with their job. Supporting this ideas Mintzberg theory a leadership under interpersonal roles suggests that each time a manager encourages a subordinate, or middles in his affairs, or replies to one of his requests (Robbins, 2000, p.291). For example, a manager finds time to listen to his employee when they have a problem and acts on it. Therefore, a good manager should maintain all roles to keep his staff happy to ensure a positive environment.    

Secondly, a good manager should be responsible for his work and team because he has to design and improve task and team member skills. The manager also has to able to take charge, solve problems and assign task to his employees because this is important for the manager to make the decision and help their team continue their work in the right direction. Supporting these ideas Mintzberg’s theory in decisional roles under entrepreneur points out that the manager is the initiator and also controls the changes that happens in the organization (Robbins, 2000, p. 293).  For example, a good business manager should be the first one in and the last one out on the job. Therefore, a good manager should have all these responsibilities to ensure that the work could be done well and successfully.

Lastly, a good manager should be able to process the company information efficiently because information is important to running the business. If the manager knows more information about their company then he will able to analyse the organization performance. Supporting this ideas Mintzberg’s theory an information roles under monitor concludes that "the manager should seeks and receives wide variety of special information to develop thorough understanding of organization and environment, emerges as nerve centre of internal and external information about the organization". (Robbins, 2000, p. 12). For example, reading periodicals and reports, maintaining personal contacts. Therefore, a good manager should know all roles to analyse their information to improve the company.

The attributes of a good manager should be able to create a positive environment for all his employees so all employees will be able to feel happy and relaxed in their jobs. The manager should also be responsible for his work and team to ensure the work is completed successfully and the manager should be able to analyse the company information to ensure the running of his company. If a good manager have all these characteristics this will help them succeed in running their business.

By Pormov LIM

12/07/10

Reference

Mintzberg, H. (1971). Managerial work: analysis from observation, 
                      In L.E. Boone & D.D, Bowen (Eds.), The great 
                      writings in management and organizational behavior. 
                      (pp. 282-300), 2^nd ed.). 
                      New York: Random House

Robbins, S.P., Bergman, R., Stagg, I., & Coulter, M. (2000). 
                      Management. Friend  Forest  Australia:
                      Prentice Hall Auckland Pty.

Em...

Adviser is important for study.
Actually, I really need an adviser to help me improve and correct my English lol.
Who is my adviser lol?
Em.......

Diary...

 Well, I got another mail from my friend,  this mail talking about writing diary. Actually, I used to write diary everyday... wrote about my life experience - (activities, something happened in my life  etc.,) more than ten years. First time, 1997, I started write it in "a Diary book" and used Khmer language. When I came to study in Thai, I continue wrote in Thai language and after I had my own laptop I changed to write it in my computer and sometime wrote in space, blog or face book. However, sometime I found that it was very hard to shared everything about my life. Therefore, writing diary in your diary book or in your computer is safety than in blog :) in my point of views, if we write some information or some positive ideas - (that you feel safety in your life) in the blog is the best thing, especially sharing about our education or how to improve our life. So, should we write and share our opinion or knowledge in our blog, thats right???


Well ok, forget my rubbish thinking..! and now read some ideas from my friend at bellow: 

 
"Why Diary?

A diary is a personal journal written for the benefit of our memory of events or thoughts of the old days. These days many people make their diary public so that other people can read, enjoy or learn something from it. It is a kind of sharing their thoughts, events or lessons they have learnet in their lives. At the same time, the writers can also learn from people’s comments made on their public journals.

Writing a public diary can benefit us in many ways. On the one hand, such a kind of writing is a course of training on its own, as writing for other readers requires more explanation than writing just for oneself. We can learn to explain our ideas as well as to relate the events, accompanied with our own thoughts or lessons acquired each day. Writing a diary or personal journal is more relaxing than writing an academic essay. Yet it demands a thought of conclusion in the same way as academic essay does. In this way, we learn to conclude our own thoughts in a more relaxed situation. This will finally improve our overall writing skills. On the other hand, we may learn even more from readers’ comments, encouragement or suggestions made on our diary.

Not only for communication purposes, writing a diary also helps us to understand ourselves more, as we need to have a clear idea in mind before explaining it to others.

In general, a diary should witness our moments of happiness, being a concrete evidence of joy that we can pick up to read again and again in order to be cheerful. However, in case of some ‘not good things’ filling our days, we may still benefit from writing a diary. In such situation, it may be better to avoid explaining the event in detail. Just relate the event briefly, without touching on the bad memory, in order to go further to the lessons or dhamma learned from the event or to the dhamma we employed in order to encourage ourselves to continue doing good deeds.

By doing good things and sharing the good thoughts or lessons, we are making this world beautiful with the good".


Thank you for your mail.
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Thanks for your mail

My friend graduated in PH.D. wow wow.!!! U r great..!
This Email was send to me and I think is the good way for my friend and me who want to know how to improve our English and study in the future..


Lets to read it...!



Subject: Dealing with teachers/supervisors‏
Sent: Thu 7/01/10 9:50 AM

Dealing with Teachers/Supervisor

During the period of study, students need to deal with teachers or their supervisors in various matters. In doing so, it is necessary that students know the teachers’ preferences, understand their situations or even be sensitive to their moods. As such, students will be able to adjust themselves appropriately to conform to the teachers’ preferences.

This seems to be common for any interpersonal relation. In order to make our coordination or cooperation fruitful, we need to understand the situations and sometimes it is necessary that we adjust ourselves accordingly. However, this is not always easy, as all individuals have their own preferences. Sometimes it is not very pleasurable to put aside one’s own sensitivity in order to accommodate that of others. In any case, as teachers or supervisors are persons influential for students’ success or completion, it is essential that students develop some strategies to deal with them. This is perhaps a reason why the USYD student representative body (SUPRA) provides the USYD students with a manual entitled ‘Working with supervisor’ or something similar. It is a means by which senior students advise their juniors how to deal with teachers.

I myself have never read SUPRA’s manual, even though I came across it for many times and felt it is interesting. Nevertheless, during my study, I got useful advices from a senior student of the same supervisor and I always appreciate it. I call that senior student ‘Rabbi.’ This is how my supervisor also calls him.

The word ‘Rabbi’ is a title of respect for a spiritual leader of the Jewish or related religions. This Rabbi, my senior,[1] is a spiritual leader of the Mandaean community which is situated in Sydney.[2] He is a true spiritual person, suitable for his position in his religion. His kindness and friendship extend to us who are people of different practices and faiths.

In the early period of my study, I usually met Rabbi in the PGARC (Postgraduate Arts Research Centre), the working place for postgraduate students in the Faculty of Arts. He worked hard days and nights, but still looked happy, contented and mindful at all times. He always told me when we met “work very hard, work very hard!” And when I had a question such as how to type diacritical signs, he taught me and showed me how to do it.

In a later phase, when I was rushing on the first draft of my thesis, Rabbi advised me again how to learn most from the supervisor.

It was when we were in Thailand, after the International Samādhi Forum (ISF), held in Chiang Mai, in which Rabbi was a speaker who presented a research paper on meditation. During those days, my supervisor stayed in the same house with Rabbi, in the Tawandhamma Village close to our temple. On that day, I went to see them, bringing vegetarian foods for some practitioners, out of my concern that our staffs might not have been able to find for them vegetarian foods. Some of them could not eat meat.

After a conversation with Dr Crangle, my supervisor, regarding the submission of the first draft of my thesis, I had a brief period to talk to Rabbi. He advised me that it is best to make our work perfect or nearly perfect before submitting it to our supervisor. “Don’t be too rush,” he told me. As our supervisor is meticulous in the accuracy of English writing, he can be easily irritated on seeing wrong spellings or grammatical errors. If our writing has a lot of mistakes in regard to English language, the supervisor will need to take time correcting our English and hence have no more time to assess other qualities of our writing. As such, we won’t be able to learn anything more from him.

Therefore, before submitting our writing to the supervisor, it is best to check for all mistakes and correct them first. Or we may ask an English native speaker to edit our work, in order to ensure the good quality of English writing. If the supervisor is satisfied with our English, or at least is not irritated with it, he will teach us more on other aspects, such as how to construct the chapters, how to support the argument in a more reasonable way, how to write to suite readers’ expectations or something else which are all beneficial. In this way, we will learn most from the supervisor and that will be helpful for our own works in the future.

It has been proven that the Rabbi’s advice is correct. Being care for the correctness of the writing, I tried my best to correct all mistakes, even before sending the writing to Dr Jeff, our English editor. Moreover, every time I got the work back from him, I learned how Dr Jeff corrected my English and tried to understand it. Whenever I could not understand his correction, I asked him to explain it to me. In this way I gradually learned from him how to write in English in the way it should be. Even though my English is still far from being perfect, it has improved a lot.

Later, in the submission of my work for examination, I could ask for Dr Jeff’s editorial help only for the first chapter. As there were only few days for my supervisor to look at the work, I decided to send the work directly to him, after trying my best to correct all possible mistakes. The supervisor appeared satisfied with the work. He asked me how I improved my English writing or whether there was someone editing the work for me. At that time, only P’ Moo helped proof-read through the thesis, but mostly she made no correction on it. It was the care that improved my work!

Rabbi’s advice is common in dealing with all teachers, not only with our supervisor. The care for qualities of the work shows our respect to the teachers who will assess it. At the same time, it shows our respect for learning. In Pali, this is called sikkhāgāravatā.[3]

According to the Buddha’s teaching, sikkhāgāravatā or respect for learning is a virtue necessary for the development of wisdom. It helps prevent us from falling back from the good. Therefore, students should try their best to study with care. ‘Learning with care’ will bring about the highest result for all students, irrespective of their initial capacity. The care taken in our study can elevate the students’ capacity to its highest potential.



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[1] Rabbi Dr Brikha Nasoraia, Brikha President of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council.

[2] Many years ago, most Mandaean people migrated worldwide from Iraq, after a longer than one millennium persecution of the Islamic government in their countries of origin. In Australia, the Mandaean community is situated mainly in Sydney.

[3] Originally, Sikkāgāravatā refers to respect in Buddhist three modes of learning: sīla, samādhi and paññā.

Bl. 5

HW:

“Scientist working on transplant techniques grew a human ear on the back of a mouse. The ear is molded using human cartilage cells, and nourished by the mouse’s blood as it grows”. Find a reference and write a passage using your reference.

In my opinion, increase knowledge for helping people is the best thing that we should agree. As the result, BBC (2002) said “around 100 people waiting for a liver transplant” that means more people need some help from a mad scientist. For this case - working on transplant techniques grew a human ear on the back of a mouse are have many advantages such as help people who lost their ear, nose and so on. One reason that I supported this Idea because in this work are do not killed any mouse but they just putting a mold resembling the shape of a human ear on to its back and if they take the ear off a mouse still alive. I think this way is not cruel any animal but just help animal make a big deep (merit) for human being. Maybe in the future, can we have a new fashion ear like as “ape ear” for people to choose it?!! Some people don’t like their original ear…maybe they can be change it (lol this is just my stupid think – don’t laughs lol). However, I’m not a mad scientist, so I don’t know about what was the researcher done in this job, so, can we concern that human will take some DNA from the animal?. For this point Dr. Kruszelinicki (2006) reported that human DNA had taken over the mouse DNA, and commanded it to grow a human ear “But it never happened” because the mouse in the famous photo had never been genetically engineered.!

Actually, as the result, scientists had believed it was not possible to grow anything more complex than simple tissues…because of problems growing the blood vessel networks. To do this, they use a "frame" made of a biodegradable plastic. (BBC, 2002).



Reference

BBC. (2002). Artificial liver 'could be grown'. Retrieved from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1949073.stm

Kruszelinicki, K. (2006). Mouse with human ear. Retrieved from www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/06/02/1644154.htm

Motivation - Mind Map

Mind Maps have been produced to introduce topics and give students an overview of key topics being studied. The maps can be viewed as a whole page or, for those who prefer a more linear approach, as a text version.

1) Maslow
o Physiological
o Safety
o Affiliation
o Esteem
o Self-Actualisation

2) Drucker
o Money!

3) Likert
o Exploitive-authoritative
o Benevolent-authoritative
o Consultative
o Participative-group

4) Taylor
o Scientific Management

5) Argyris
o Bureaucratic/Pyramidal
o Humanistic/Democratic

6) Herzberg
6.1. Hygiene Factors
+ Conditions
+ Pay
+ Status
+ Security
+ Company policies

6.2. Motivation factors
+ Achievement
+ Recognition
+ Growth/Advancement
+ Interest in the job

7. McClelland
o Need to Achieve
o Risk v outcome v success
o Necessity of feedback

8) McGregor
o Theory X
o Theory Y

9) Mayo
o 'Hawthorne Effect'
o Importance of Teamwork
o Social Collaboration

Do you know all these theory?
We should to know it :)
I will compare these theory with Buddhism. ^^/


Reference:


biz/ed. (n.d). Motivation - Mind Map. Retrieved from
http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/hrm/presentation
/motivation_map.html

Student A: Presentation

Student A should answer questions like the following :

1. Why did you choose the topic?

2. What interested you in the New Internationalist article?

3. What was the best source of information? Why?

4. What was the worst source of information? Why?

5. Did you find the answers to your questions easily?

6. Were your questions good questions, or would you phrase them differently next time?

7. Was it difficult deciding what was important information?

8. Did you and your partner work well together?

9. Did you make good use of the time?

10. What would you do differently the next time?



PS. Student B : Present writing of group assignment...


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