Учебное пособие: Management of organization

planning

experience, recent, teamwork, how-to-do-it plans, stage, flexibility, corporate

example:

Planning has been labeled the primary management function because it sets the stage for all other aspects of management. Recent researches has uncovered the following trends in corporate planning: more planners with actual management experience; greater teamwork, customizing, and flexibility; and more translation of broad strategies into how-to-do-it plans

objectives measurable, accomplish, when, terms, targets, commitment, spell out, motivation

MBO objective, set, measurable, approach, controlling, planning, based

cost-volume-profit analysis gauge, sales, carried out, planners, impact, volume, price, objectives

Exercise 2. Ask questions to the given answers:

1) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: Two conceptual reasons for planning are limited resources and an uncertain environment.

2) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: Priorities affect resource allocation by assigning relative importance to objectives.

3) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: Good objectives help managers by serving as targets, act ing as measuring sticks, encouraging commitment, and strengthening motivation.

THE WRITING MODULE

III. Writing exercises:

Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the suggested words:

assigning, executed, top, to, more.

Objective setting begins at the _____of the organization and filters down, thus forming a means-ends chain. Priorities affect resource allocation by ______relative importance _____ objectives. Plans are formu lated and______as part of a ______encompassing planning/control cycle.

Exercise 2. Compose a story on one of the topics (up to 100 words):

“Management by objectives”

“Trends in corporate planning”

“Objectives and the planning process”

Lesson 4 . THE READING MODULE

Read the text: Organizing

Organizing is an important managerial function that translates strategy into a systematic structure ofauthority relationships and task responsibilities. Contingency organization design has grown in popularity as environmental complexity has increased. Organization charts are helpful visual aids for organizers. Representing the organization’s structural skeleton, organization charts delineate vertical hierarchy and horizontal specialization.