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Unite 2. Significance of Management管理的重要性 Text A. What is Management?管理是什么？ Pre -reading Task 课前阅读 Read the following questions first, which will help you understand the text below better, and then answer the questions after reading the text carefully. 先看看下面的问题，这些问题将有助于你更好地理解后面的课文，仔细地读完课文后再回答这些问题。 1. How do you understand the sentence This interdependence, and the prominent role of organizations in our lives, highlights the importance of management.? 你怎么理解这句话：组织的杰出作用和组织之间的相互依赖性突出了管理的重要性。 2. Why do you think management is important for an organization? Please describe the reason in great detail. 为什么你认为管理对一个组织是重要的？请详细地描述一下原因。 3. What is the essence of management theory in your viewpoint? 你的观点中，管理理论的本质是什么？ TEXT Simply speaking, management is what managers do. But in order to understand the definition of management, that statement seems too simple. To our great surprise, the variety of approaches to management analysis, the amount of research, and the great number of differing views have resulted in much confusion as to what management is, what management theory and science is, and how managerial events should be analyzed. As a matter of fact, Harold Koontz many years ago called this situation the management jungle. Though new approaches have developed and older approaches have taken on some new meanings with some new words attached, the developments of management science and theory still have the characteristics of a jungle. Thus in this passage we want to discuss Importance of Management, Definition of Management, and Major functions of Management respectively. 简单地说，管理就是管理者所做的事情。但是为了弄清管理的定义，这样的表述好像太简单。使我们感到惊奇的是：管理分析的各种方法（学派）、研究的数量、众说纷纭（不同）的观点已经导致关于管理的一些问题非常混淆、困惑，比如管理是什么、管理理论和管理科学是什么、管理事件应该怎样分析等等。事实上，哈罗德孔茨在许多年之前就把这种状况称为“管理（理论）丛林”。尽管新管理学派已经得到发展，旧管理学派附加一些新的词汇而增加了一些新含义，管理科学及管理理论的发展仍有丛林的特征。因此在这一段（篇）文章中，我们想分别讨论一下管理的重要性、管理的定义、管理的主要职能。 A.1. Importance of Management 管理的重要性 The importance of management goes well beyond meeting personal needs, however. Modem society is cha