Management(эссе на английском языке на тему "Управление" с элементами словообразования на примере лексики по данной тематике).
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                                           How To Be A Better Manager.

        What is management? What do managers do? How do I manage? These are standard questions that most of us in the management profession have been asked more than once.                

        Contemporary period in the development of Russian economics, when the radical changes have been made in the sphere of human resource management, is characterized by the acute shortage of qualified trained managers selected on the basis of ability and expertise. During last years interesting books on the personnel management have appeared, however, still there is lack of monographs, books and research works based on the modern management theory and a long history of work. So it turns out to be important to study the questions, concerning personnel and personal management either in business or in state and municipal management.

        A management career path is not a straight line. Nor is it the same for everyone. Yet all management career paths have a starting point. All have milestones along the way. This page is the starting point for several management paths. Each path leads managers to what they need to know based on where you are in your career and where your interests lie. On each visit you can go further along the path, retrace steps along the same path, or start down a new path. Five paths are listed below.

Considering Management

This person wonders whether a management career is for them. Maybe someone has suggested it. Maybe they just feel they can do it better than their current boss. Take this path to learn more about what management does and whether management might be for you.

Going For It

This person has decided to try the management career path. They have no management experience yet, but are interested and motivated. This path leads to the knowledge and skill needed to land that first management job.

Just Starting Management

This person has just started, or is about to start, their first management job. This path will guide you through those first confusing, challenging days and months. It takes you through the basic knowledge needed to be a manager and how to deal with the problems that crop up.

Experienced Manager

This manager has had several years experience in management. He or she has had time to make some mistakes and achieve some successes in the real world and now want to improve. This path leads to the resources to improve their skills and their promotion potential.

Management Pros and Consultants

These are veteran managers interested in increasing and sharing their professional knowledge and experience. They have managed different and difficult opportunities, but they know there is always more to learn. This path connects them with their peers and to cutting-edge theory.

Most urgent problems of personnel management:

•        New approaches to organization of work of personnel, work regulations and scientific labor organizations, team - building, theory of leadership.

•        Important problems of motivation, payment, methods of personnel estimation and effectiveness of work.

•        The personnel of the state and municipal management bodies and business;

•        The notion and classification of the methods of state and municipal management and business;

•        The manpower policy in the state and municipal management and business;

•        The competitive basis of the manpower policy in the state and municipal management and business;

•        The staff appraisal procedure in the bodies of the state and municipal management and business;

•        The staff estimation procedure based on the estimation center method;

•        The international experience of the personnel training and skills improvement for the state and municipal management bodies and business;

•        The personnel management at the bodies of state and municipal administration and so on.

         Managers spend a lot of time giving direction to people. When done well you can achieve great results. Make a little slip up and everything goes wrong. Here's how to do it right.

        Management is both art and science. It is the art of making people more effective than they would have been without you. The science is in how you do that. There are four basic pillars: plan, organize, direct, and monitor. Four workers can make 6 units in an eight-hour shift without a manager. If I hire you to manage them and they still make 6 units a day, what is the benefit to my business of having hired you? On the other hand, if they now make 8 units per day, you, the manager, have value. The same analogy applies to service, or retail, or teaching, or any other kind of work. Can your group handle more customer calls with you than without? Sell higher value merchandise? Impart knowledge more effectively? That is the value of management - making a group of individual more effective.                                                                    

       Management starts with planning. Good management starts with good planning. And proper prior planning prevents… well, you know the rest of that one. Without a plan you will never succeed. If you happen to make it to the goal, it will have been by luck or chance and is not repeatable. You may make it as a flash-in-the-pan, an overnight sensation, but you will never have the track record of accomplishments of which success is made. Look at all the probable scenarios. Plan for them. Figure out the worst possible scenario and plan for that too. Evaluate your different plans and develop what, in your best judgments, will work the best and what you will do if it doesn't. Figure out what your goal is (or listen when your boss tells you). Then figure out the best way to get there. What resources do you have? What can you get? Compare strengths and weaknesses of individuals and other resources. Will putting four workers on a task that takes 14 hours cost less than renting a machine that can do the same task with one worker in 6 hours? If you change the first shift from an 8 AM start to a 10 AM start, can they handle the early evening rush so you don't have to hire an extra person for the second shift? One of the most often overlooked management planning tools is the most effective. Ask the people doing the work for their input.

      Now that you have a plan, you have to make it happen. Is everything ready ahead of your group so the right stuff will get to your group at the right time? Is your group prepared to do its part of the plan? Is the downstream organization ready for what your group will deliver and when it will arrive? Are the workers trained? Are they motivated? Do they have the equipment they need? Are there spare parts available for the equipment? Has purchasing ordered the material? Is it the right stuff? Will it get here on the appropriate schedule? Do the legwork to make sure everything needed to execute the plan is ready to go, or will be when it is needed. Check back to make sure that everyone understands their role and the importance of their role to the overall success.

       Now flip the "ON" switch. Tell people what they need to do. I like to think of this part like conducting an orchestra. Everyone in the orchestra has the music in front of them. They know which section is playing which piece and when. They know when to come in, what to play, and when to stop again. The conductor cues each section to make the music happen. That's your job here. You've given all your musicians (workers) the sheet music (the plan). You have the right number of musicians (workers) in each section (department), and you've arranged the sections on stage so the music will sound best (you have organized the work). Now you need only to tap the podium lightly with your baton to get their attention and give the downbeat.

      Now that you have everything moving, you have to keep an eye on things. Make sure everything is going according to the plan. When it isn't going according to plan, you need to step in and adjust the plan, just as the orchestra conductor will adjust the tempo. Problems will come up. Someone will get sick. A part won't be delivered on time. A key customer will go bankrupt. That is why you developed a contingency plan in the first place. You, as the manager, have to be always aware of what's going on so you can make the adjustments required.

      A manager's most important, and most difficult, job is to manage people. Managing people is not easy. You must lead, motivate, inspire, and encourage them. Sometimes you will have to hire, fire, and discipline or evaluate employees.  However, it can be done successfully. And it can be a very rewarding experience. Remember that management, like any other skill, is something that you can improve at with study and practice.                                                          

                                                  Management Styles

Managers have to perform many roles in an organization and how they handle various situations will depend on their style of management. A management style is an overall method of leadership used by a manager. There are two sharply contrasting styles that will be broken down into smaller subsets later:

Autocratic

Permissive

Each style has its own characteristics:

Autocratic: Leader makes all decisions unilaterally.

Permissive: Leader permits subordinates to take part in decision making and also gives them a considerable degree of autonomy in completing routine work activities.

Combining these categories with democratic (subordinates are allowed to participate in decision making) and directive (subordinates are told exactly how to do their jobs) styles give us four distinct ways to manage.

                                Ten Things To Do Today To Be A Better Manager  

Listed below are ten things you can do to become a better manager. Pick one. Do it today. Pick another one for tomorrow. In two weeks you will be a better manager.

1. Select the best people

 As a manager, you are only as good as the people on your team. Give yourself a better chance to succeed by picking the best people from the start.

2. Be a motivator

 Human beings do things because we want to. Sometimes we want to because the consequences of not wanting to do something are unpleasant. However, most of the time we want to do things because of what we get out of it.

It's no different at work, people do good work for the pay, or the prestige, or the recognition. They do bad work because they want to take it easy and still get paid. They work really hard because they want to impress someone. To motivate your people better, figure out what they want and how you can give that to them for doing what you want them to do.

3. Build Your Team

 It is not enough that people are motivated to succeed at work. They have to work together as a team to accomplish the group's objective. After all, if we just want them to all "do their own things" we don't need you as a manager to mold them into a team, do we?

Here are some ways to improve your team building skills:

4. Be a Leader, Not Only a Manager

 You have built the best team from the best employee available. You motivated them to peak performance. What is missing? Motivating a team is worthless unless you provide direction; unless you turn that motivation toward a goal and lead the team to it. Enthusiasm, dedication and charisma are some of the more important characteristics of leadership. Leaders are seen as good and evil, and take on many personalities and roles, from managers or coaches to world leaders. It is believed that every leader possesses a charisma that provides change and success. Thus leadership begins with vision, concern and mentorship. Leadership, a critical management skill, is the ability to motivate a group of people toward a common goal. Perhaps the one personal skill that has the greatest impact on your job satisfaction, promotion potential, and career success is your ability to communicate effectively with others. By improving your communications skills at work you increase your ability to achieve success, have your successes noted, and get yourself those promotions you deserve. It is the ability to lead others that truly sets a manager apart from their peers. Remember that leaders are found at all levels of the organization, so be one.

5. Improve as a Communicator

 Communication may be the single most important skill of a manager. After all, all the others depend on it. You can't be a leader if you can't communicate your vision. You can't motivate people if they can't understand what you want. Communication skills can be improved through practice.

6. Get Better at Managing Money

To stay in business, a company has to make money. That means bringing money in the door and it means spending less than you bring in. Depending on your function in the organization, you may have more influence on one area or the other, but you need to understand both. You can help your company, your employees, and yourself be getting better at managing the company's money.

7. Get Better at Managing Time

The one thing you will probably have less of at work than money is time. The better you get at managing time, yours and others, the more effective you will be as a manager.

 8. Improve Yourself

Don't focus so hard on your people that you forget about yourself. Identify the areas in which you are weak and improve them. The fact that you are reading this article shows you understand the concept. You need to put it into practice.

9. Practice Ethical Management

Ethics is very important in business.

10. Take a Break

You are less effective as a manager if you are over-stressed. You are less tolerant. You snap at people more. No one wants to be anywhere near you. Take a break. Give yourself a chance to relax and recharge your batteries. Your increased unbelievable productivity when you return will more than make up for the time you take off. Have a good laugh or go lie on a beach somewhere.

        Management is a skill that can be learned. You can improve as a manager by working every day to get better. Good managers always stick to his task until it gets completed from his staff. If you pick one subject each day, and work on improving in that area, you will be a better manager before you know it. And others will notice it too.

                                                New Paradigm in Management

Around the 1960s and on to today, the environment of today’s organizations has changed a great deal. A variety of driving forces provoke this change. Increasing telecommunications has “shrunk» the world substantially. Increasing diversity of workers has brought in a wide array of differing values, perspectives and expectations among workers. Public consciousness has become much more sensitive and demanding that organizations be more socially responsible. Much of the third-world countries has joined the global marketplace, creating a wider arena for sales and services. Organizations became responsible not only to stockholders (those who owned stock) but to a wider community of “stakeholders.” For a social discipline, such as management, the assumptions are actually a good deal more important than are the paradigms for a natural science. The paradigm -- that is, the prevailing general theory -- has no impact on the natural universe. Whether the paradigm states that the sun rotates around the earth, or that, on the contrary, the earth rotates around the sun, has no effect on sun and earth. But a social discipline, such as management, deals with the behavior of people and human institutions. The social universe has no "natural laws" as the physical sciences do. It is thus subject to continuous change. This means that assumptions that were valid yesterday can become invalid and, indeed, totally misleading in no time at all.

As a result of the above driving forces, organizations were required to adopt a “new paradigm,” or view on the world, to be more sensitive, flexible and adaptable to the demands and expectations of stakeholder demands. Many organizations have abandoned or are abandoning the traditional top-down, rigid and hierarchical structures to more “organic” and fluid forms.

Today’s leaders and/or managers must deal with continual, rapid change. Managers faced with a major decision can no longer refer back to an earlier developed plan for direction. Management techniques must continually notice changes in the environment and organization, assess this change and manage change. Managing change does not mean controlling it, rather understanding it, adapting to it where necessary and guiding it when possible.

Managers can’t know it all or reference resources for every situation. Managers must count on and listen more to their employees. Consequently, new forms of organizations are becoming more common, e.g., worker-centered teams, self-organizing and self-designing teams, etc.

                                              Traits of the New Paradigm

Marilyn Ferguson, in The New Paradigm: Emerging Strategic for Leadership and Organizational Change (provides a very concise overview of the differences between the old and new paradigm.

                          Parts of speech (части речи).

 Word formation ( Способы словообразования )

1 суффиксальный (with the help of suffixes )

2 префиксальный ( with the help of prefixes )

3 суффиксально- префиксальный ( with the help of prefixes and suffixes )

4 образование слова путем соединения нескольких слов ( сложные прилагательные, сложные существительные и т.п.)

5 Совпадение форм (слова пишутся и произносятся одинаково, но являются различными частями речи )

Nouns (существительные)

1 management ( суффикс -ment ) – менеджмент, управление

2 effectiveness ( суффиксы –ive; -ness ) - эффективность

3 leadership ( суффиксы –er; -ship ) - лидерство

4 communication (суффикс –ion ) – общение, коммуникация

5 disharmony ( префикс –dis; суффикс –y ) - дисгармония

Verbs (глаголы)

1 to improve ( префикс –im ) - улучшать

2 to encourage ( префикс – en ) – поощрять, ободрять

3 to motivate ( суффикс –ate ) – побуждать, мотивировать

4 to cooperate ( префикс – co ) - сотрудничать

5  to identify ( суффикс – fy ) – выявлять                                                

Adjectives ( прилагательные)

1 international ( префикс – inter; суффикс –al ) - международный

2 qualified ( окончание –ed ) - квалифицированный

3 considerable ( суффикс –able ) - значительный

4  different ( суффикс –ent ) - различный

5 unbelievable ( префикс –un; суффикс –able) - невероятный

Adverbs (наречия)

1 effectively ( суффиксы –ive; ly ) - эффективно

2 consequently ( суффикс –ly ) - следовательно

3 continually ( суффиксы –al; -ly ) - непрерывно

4 closely ( суффикс – ly ) – тесно ( например, тесно связанный с чем –либо )

5 successfully ( суффиксы –ful; -ly ) - успешно

Примеры словообразования путем соединения нескольких слов

1 team-building – создание команды

2  management – making – осуществление управления

3 marketplace – место торговли

4  stakeholder – заинтересованная сторона

5 third- world countries – страны третьего мира

6 downstream – вниз по течению

Совпадение форм

1  change – 1.изменять; 2.изменение

2 check – 1.проверять; 2.проверка

3 plan – 1.план; 2.планировать

4 impact – 1.столкновение; 2.прочно укреплять

5 kind – 1.вид; 2.добрый