Week 1

Question 1

What are the 3 characteristics of management?

Answer 1

1. It is a process of managerial activities.
2. It involves reaching organisational goals.
3. It reaches these goals by working with other resources.

Question 2

What is the name of the theory with five functions?

Answer 2

Fayol’s 5 functions of management

Question 3

What are the 5 functions of management?

Answer 3

Planning, Organising, Commanding, Coordinating, Controlling

Question 4

What are historical examples of people always being managed and organised?

Answer 4

Pyramids and Tribal societies

Question 5

From the 20th century onwards it produced large organisations that had what 3 characteristics?

Answer 5

Scale, unskilled labour and impersonal

Question 6

The focus of organisational behaviour

Answer 6

individual (green), group (yellow) and organisational (red)