Questions for review

1. What is management? Give some definitions and comment on them.

1. What approaches to management do you know?

2. What is the central belief of the classical school of management?

3. Who was the first to introduce the idea of applying rational analysis to management?

4. Describe the behavioral approach to management.

5. What does the quantitative approach to management focus on?

6. Describe the contingency approach to management.

7. What are the strong points of the scientific approach to management?

8. What are the weak points of the scientific approach to management?

9. In what way does management encompass both science and art?

10. Speak about the contributions of F. Taylor, H. Fayol, P. Drucker to the science of management.

11. How many principles of management do you know? Enumerate them.

12. Choose 5-7 principles of management and describe them.

13. Why is the stability of tenure of personnel so important?

14. How do you understand the principle esprit de corps?

15. Differentiate between Unity of command and Unity of direction.

16. What is MBO?

17. Who is its founder?

18. What are the main principles of MBO?

19. What are its benefits?

20. What are the limitations of MBO?

21. What is outsourcing? Give some examples.

22. What is crowdsourcing? Give some examples.

23. ‘Management is a question of proportion”. Comment on the statement.

Lexical minimum

Key terms

manage

manager

management

managerial

top (senior) management

middle management

managing director

(front-) line manager

Words and word-combinations

1. adherent, n

2. emerge, v

3. counselor, n

4. constraint, n

5. limitation, n

6. objective, n

7. appreciate, v

8. evaluate, v

9. assess, v

10. value n, v

11. interact, v

12. contribute to, v

13. scholar, n

14. rigid, adj

15. enforce, v

16. reward v, n

17. penalty, n

18. accountability, n

19 currently, adv

20. outsourcing, n

21. undertaking, n

22. state, v,n

23. imply, v

24. result from, v

25. result in, v

26. reconcile, v

27. (de)centralization, n

28. remuneration, n

29. range from … to, v

30. adhere to, v

31. equity, n

32. stability, n

33. pattern, n

34. de-skilling

35. skill, n

36. staff, n

37. subordinate, n, v

38. estimate, v

39. tend, v

40. the classical approach

41. the behavioral approach

42. the quantitative approach

43. the contingency approach

44. to put into action

45. to make contributions to

46. rule-of-thumb practices

47. to ignore the human element

48. related parts of a system

49. to take the best of the approaches

50. common sense

51. to be involved in management

52. to apply rational analysis to management

53. intuitive ability

54. to become more complex

55. to keep the company running

56. production oriented

57. to make a profit

58. to impose regulations on business

59. to adopt a wider perspective

60. to have a good understanding

61. current issues

62. to be sensitive and responsive to

63. ever-more complex environment

64. to encompass both art and science

65. subjective judgment

66. a question of proportion

67. guidelines for managers

68. division of work (labour)

69. unity of command

70. subordination of personal interests to general interests

71. to set an example

72. to supervise firmly and fairly

73. scalar chain

74. smooth-running organization

75. in-house employee

76. third party

77. to have a say

78. solution to the problem

79. to handle all aspects of a project

80. time consuming

81. non-core activity

82. tenure of personnel

83. to damage morale

84. esprit de corps

85. management by objectives

86. to arrange in a logical sequence

87. to determine by guesswork

88. unity of direction

Examination topic