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1. Answer these questions:

  1. Could you give any examples to prove the statement that we are all involved in management?

  2. What is the difference between the role of the manager today and in the past?

  3. Why is the function of management becoming more complex?

  4. What personal qualities and abilities should a manager possess to succeed in the modern business environment?

  5. What is the purpose of creating organizations?

  6. What two important parts does management encompass?

  7. What are the basic sciences for a business executive?

  8. How can managers use mathematics in their job?

2. Translate these word combinations into Russian:

  • business manager’s objective

  • production oriented firms

  • to work in accord with one’s understanding

  • the ability to interact in a complex environment

  • to combine human efforts

  • scientific management

  • to draw on intuition

  • subjective judgment

  • artistic side of management

3. Find infinitives in the sentences and define their functions.

  1. Organizations exist to combine human efforts in order to achieve certain goals.

  2. In managing organizations it is necessary to draw on intuition and subjective judgment.

  3. At the turn of the century the business manager’s objective was to keep his company running and to make a profit.

  4. A manager must possess the ability to analyze complex problems.

  5. The ability to make decisions that will allocate scarce resources effectively is very important.

  6. Modern managers must now consider the environment in which the organization operates.

4. Match the words having the opposite meaning.

  1. constantly

    1. theorist

  1. to spend

    1. simple

  1. changing

    1. temporarily

  1. complex

    1. abundant

  1. different

    1. objective

  1. profit

    1. loss

  1. practitioner

    1. similar

  1. stagnancy

    1. invariable

  1. broad

    1. to save

  1. scarce

    1. progress

  1. to combine

    1. narrow

  1. subjective

    1. harmless

  1. dangerous

    1. to separate

5. Join the halves:

  1. Skill without knowledge …

  2. The science portion of management is expanding, more and more …

  3. A major part of the manager’s job will be …

  4. At the turn of the century the manager’s objective …

  5. The modern manager must now consider …

    1. decisions can be analyzed and programmed.

    2. means stagnancy and inability to pass on learning.

    3. to predict what the environment needs and what changes will occur in the future.

    4. was to keep his company running and to make profit.

    5. the environment in which the organization operates.

6. What prepositions should be used below? Make up your own sentences using these word combinations:

  1. … the turn of the century

  2. can contribute … management

  3. must be sensitive … environment

  4. a person responsible …

  5. … one degree or another

  6. to be involved … managing

  7. to impose regulations … business

  8. to draw … intuition