CareerEnglish-广东工贸职业技术学院.ppt

Section 1 Getting Things Ready Section 1 Getting Things Ready Section 1 Getting Things Ready Activity 2: Read the passage in Section 2 and complete the following paragraph. Section 2 Things to Do Etiquette What do managers have in common? They get things done through their organizations. Managers create the conditions and environment that enable organizations to survive and thrive beyond the tenure of any specific supervisor or manager. A key aspect of managing is recognizing the role and importance of others. Good managers know that the only way they can accomplish anything at all is through the people of the organization. Getting things done through people and other resources and provide leadership and direction are what managers do. Thus, our definition of management is as follow: Section 2 Things to Do Management is the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, leading or directing, and controlling organizational resources. There are two important ideas in this definition: 1) the four functions of planning, organizing, leading or directing, and controlling and 2) the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner. Managers use a multitude of skills to perform these functions. Section Two Things to Do Activity One Listen and Write Section Two Things to Do Read and Think Functions of Management What a manager does is also called management function. There are four basic management functions: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. Management begins with planning. Since the purpose of management is to achieve organizational objectives, the most important function of management is planning. There are two types of plans: long-term plans and short-term plans. As changes occur everyday in the availability of resources, amounts of money available, customer demands, and technology, managers of every level m