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Understanding Management

מאמר באנגלית לתרגול קריאה. כולל 5 מילים חדשות עם תרגום לעברית, 3 שאלות הבנת הנקרא, 5 שאלות לשיחה. מתאים למתקדמים.

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The success or failure of companies, public organizations, services, associations, sports teams, etc., often depends on the qualities of their leaders. A famous classification of manager's duties comes from Peter Drucker. Drucker suggests that a manager's job can be broken down into five tasks: planning (goal setting), organization, integration (motivation and communication), performance measurement, and people development.

• First, senior managers and directors set goals and decide how their organization can achieve or accomplish them.

• Second, they break work down into manageable activities and then into individual tasks.  They choose people to perform these tasks.

• Third, managers practice social skills of motivation and communication. They must also disseminate goals to those responsible for achieving them. They should turn teams into people responsible for carrying out individual tasks.

• Fourth, managers should measure employee performance, to see if the goals or targets set for the entire organization and for each individual member of the organization are being achieved. 

• Finally, managers develop people – both themselves and their subordinates.

Although the tasks of a manager can be analyzed and classified in this fashion, management is not entirely scientific. There are management skills that have to be learned, but management is also a human skill. Some people are good at it, and others are not. Some people will be unable to put management techniques into practice. Others will have lots of techniques, but few good ideas. Excellent managers are quite rare.

מילים חדשות מהטקסט

  • broken down /ˈbroʊkən daʊn/ verb שבור

    to divide or cause to divide into two or more parts or groups

    The tasks should be broken down into several specific assignments.

  • disseminate /dɪˈsɛməˌneɪt/ verb לְהָפִיץ

    to spread or give out something, especially news, information, ideas, and so on

    There is no clear legal responsibility for businesses to disseminate usable information.

  • carrying out /ˈkæriɪŋ aʊt/ verb מבצעים

    to perform or complete a job or activity; to fulfill

    I was assigned for carrying out the program.

  • subordinates /səˈbɔrdəˌneɪts/ noun הכפופים

    a person who has a less important position

    He left the routine checks to one of his subordinates.

  • rare /rɛr/ adjective נָדִיר

    not common or frequent; very unusual

    The museum is full of rare and precious treasures.

שאלות לשיחה

אין כאן תשובה נכונה — אלה שאלות לתרגול דיבור, לבד או מול מורה.

  1. What would you say is the purpose of management?
  2. Have you ever worked for a good manager?
  3. Why do you think people decide to become managers?
  4. Do you think you have the skills to be a good manager?
  5. Can an autocratic leadership style ever achieve positive results?

בדקו את עצמכם

3 שאלות. בחרו תשובה וקבלו בדיקה מיד.

  1. Which is NOT one of the manager’s jobs?

  2. Why should a manager measure team performance?

  3. Who suggested that a manager’s job can be divided into 5 tasks?

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