Answer the questions to the text.

1. What is the goal of management?

2. What is managerial science?

3. By what means can a manager become and remain effective?

4. What is creativity in managerial work?

5. Nearly everything a manager does is accomplished through other people, isn’t it?

6. What does ‘sensitivity of a manager’ mean?

7. In which cases does a manager use intuition?

4. Are these statements true or false?

1. In the modern world business operations are becoming increasingly clear.

2. Managers must try to find new and better ways to accomplish the work of their business.

3. The only factor that makes management a difficult job is that the work situation constantly changes.

4. A manager cannot influence the attitudes and behaviour of his or her employees without the use of force.

5. Most facets of personal interactions in business still remain unclear.

6. Rational and quantitative approaches are widely used in production and distribution.

7. To improve the effectiveness of decision making managers apply to intuition.

5. What do you think? Express your opinion.

1. To be successful a manager must combine the intuitive abilities of art with the rational methods of science.

2. Management is a difficult job.

3. Of all skills personal skills are the most important for a manager.

4. Being a manager requires a high level of innovation.

5. The capacity for decision making is a prime requirement for a manager.

6. It’s no use to the study mathematical models and statistical methods to improve the effectiveness of business.

7. Management is both art and science.

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