Text II. Management style. Manager.Executives. Ceo

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Answer the questions on the texts below:

What is management style?

Where is the key to management style?

What management style is successful ?

What is the job a manager ?

Who are executives ?

What is the difference between a successful and unsuccessful executive ?

What does CEO mean ?

Management style

This is another popular phrase that has come to mean a recognizable way of managing that can be attributed to a specific organization or individual. To get things done, it is necessary to have a system. When something or someone comes in one door and goes out another, the process is handled in a prescribed way. But I have seen organizations with documented systems and no pattern of success. The Navy, for instance, operates to a well-described and specific system. Yet one ship is effective and happy, while another ship is ineffective and unhappy.

The key to management style is the relations of the senior executives to the people they are supervising. When they are able to create in those people the need to accomplish plus the feeling of appreciation and to provide them with the proper tools and instructions, the operation will be a success. The management style that pays off is one that people oriented and, at the same time, knows how to use technical applications. People really are the most important of all components.

A manager’s style is the reflection of what he or she believes.

Manager

A manager is one who causes to be implemented what an executive has directed. Managers take people, budgets, and time, and work all of them with and against other in order to accomplish jobs. Many people with executive titles are managers. My feeling is that people are born either executive or managers and that it is possible to tell which they are by the time they are 3 years old. This does not mean they will ever get that title on the door at the proper age.

Executives

Executives are the people who create the decisions and the situations that are to be carried out by managers. The successful executive is able to comprehend detail and deal with it to the extent necessary to understand the situation and not fast, experience, and intuition. The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful executive lies in the ability to communicate. Very few executives can make a good speech.

Ceo

Chief executive officer. The person legally designated by the board of directors to act on its behalf. The CEO may delegate authority but always keeps the responsibility.

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Text III. Meetings

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Answer the questions on the text below:

Why are meetings considered a waste of time?

What simple rules should be followed to make meetings?

What are the practical suggestions of the writer as regards typical organizations?

Meetings

One of the myths of management is that meetings are a gigantic waste of time. This is because, for the most, they are disoriented and disjointed and never stick to the subject. Most people prefer to make decisions on their own or perhaps to have a hallway session with somebody else and come to some kind of conclusion.

However, the well-run organization has a specific set of meetings for the purpose of communication and decision. These will add a great deal to the possibility of success if a few simple rules are followed: First, the meeting must have an agenda. If a topic is not on the agenda, do not talk about it. This teaches people to get their thoughts in ahead of time. Second, the meeting must have a start time and a finish time. These have to be adhered to religiously. The chairperson of the meeting is in charge of the meeting; if senior people are attending, they have to recognize this and defer to the chairperson. Presentation to the meeting should be prepared and rehearsed in advance, be concise and give all the participants the opportunity to have their questions answered.

For a typical organization, I would suggest the following program: Weekly staff meeting should be help for each function, in which status is reviewed, action items are covered, and problems are assigned for corrective action. For the organization as a whole, there should be monthly Executive Committee meeting, attended by senior people representing every area. Plan to cover everything in an hour and a half. The Finance Committee should meet once a-month; the board of directors, quarterly. The Procedures Committee should meet on a planned basis. The Integrity Board should meet once a month and take action. When a problem arises that requires action, a special team may be put together. This team should have regular status meetings every day at 8 A. M. For 45 minutes. The team members go over what is going on, what is supposed to happen, and what happened yesterday until they get the problem solved, congratulate each other, and do not meet anymore.

Meetings are a valuable part of an organization’s management style. Only poorly managed meetings are not useful.

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