Учебно-методическое пособие по обучению профессиональному общению. Коровина Н.А - 25 стр.

      TEXT 2
                            Management
       Part 1. Managing a business
       Management is the art or practice of managing a business,
money, products, and all the people employed by a company. In other
words management is a set of activities directed at an organization's
human, financial, physical, and information resources, with the aim of
achieving organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner. In
this case "efficient" means "using resources wisely and without unnec-
essary waste" while "effective" means "doing the right things". The
chart functions of management.

       Planning and decision making
       Determining the organization's goals and deciding how best to
achieve them, delegating responsibilities to subordinates.
       Controlling
       Monitoring and correcting ongoing activities, receiving reports
from subordinates and helping subordinates handle exceptions.
       Organizing
                                                                                                          Fig. 3
       Determining how best to group activities and resources. Getting
all employees to work together.
                                                                                 The golden rule of successful management can be summed up in
       Leading                                                            the following words: "The system works well as long as we don't have
       Motivating members of the organization to work in the best in-     any exceptions." Successful management is getting things done through
terests of the organization.                                              "others", that is through the manager's immediate subordinates.
                                                                                 The word "management" is also used to denote the people who are
                                                                          in charge of a company or an organization. Although large organizations
                                                                          typically have a number of levels of management, the most common
                                                                          view considers three basic levels: top, middle and first-line managers.
                                                                                 Top managers (president, vice president, chief executive officer
                                                                          (CEO), managing director) make up the relatively small group of ex-
                                                                          ecutives who control the organization.
                                                                                 Middle managers (plant manager, operations manager, division
                                                                          head) make up the largest group of managers in most organizations.
                                                                          The company usually requires that a middle manager (should) imple-
                                                                          ment the policies and plans developed by top management.
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