Key terms and concepts

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 425.

LEXICAL MINIMUM

Questions for review

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

2. What approaches to management do you know?

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

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

5. Describe the behavioral approach to management.

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

7. Describe the contingency approach to management.

8. Speak on the strong and 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. What is MBO? Who is its founder?

15. What are the main principles of MBO?

16. What are its benefits and limitations?

17. What is outsourcing? Give some examples.

18. What is crowdsourcing? Give some examples.

19. ‘Management is a question of proportion”. Comment on.

manage

manager

management

managerial

top (senior) management

middle management

managing director

(front-) line manager

manageable