首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What did the speaker talk about last time?
What did the speaker talk about last time?
admin
2009-06-24
97
问题
What did the speaker talk about last time?
Last time we started looking at the question of management and wondering what the term actually meant. Then we took a brief look at the concept of scientific management. You remember, we decided it was useful but not enough on its own. So today we’re going to look at another aspect—behavioral management. You may not really have come across this word "behavioral" before, though I’m sure you are familiar with the word "behavior". Behavioral simply means having to do with behavior. And that is our starting point for today: We are going to start by realizing that the activity of any organization is human activity, designed to achieve human goals. So we are really talking about human behavior. Any business concern does two things. First, it provides either goods or services that the customer needs. That is, it either makes things or does things for other people in exchange for money. Second, it provides people with work—and most of us have to work in order to make a living.
Work, much as we may sometimes wish we didn’t have to do it, or not quite so much of it, has in fact two advantages. First—and I spoke about this last time it can give us satisfaction. We can be proud of what we are doing—like a craftsman making something beautiful, or a doctor of a nurse helping people who are ill or in pain. This is what I called job satisfaction, and without it I am sure work can become an awful burden. And on a more basic level, work earns us money, which we can use to buy the things we need in order to live, like food and somewhere to live, as well as all the luxuries we could probably do without but still like to have.
Behavioral management is based on a research of how people behave at work. It uses the findings of psychologists and sociologists, and so on. These make a study of individuals and groups to see what things influence the way they behave in different conditions. The results can then be used to design the best conditions in which people will perform or behave in the way that a manager wants them to in order to make a business more efficient and to achieve its goals. They have collected a lot of evidence and formulated a lot of theories to help the manager, and there is no doubt that properly understood and applied, this can be very useful.
But still we return to the fact that people are individuals, all different from each other, and all as we say with minds of their own. So no matter what the manager knows about the way people behave in groups and so on, he has really to treat everyone on his staff as an individual in his own right. Of course, he can be helped in this by knowing how to encourage people to do things, how to stimulate them to behave in a certain way, and so on. A manager can himself be taught how to do this, but however unscientific this may sound, it is more likely that a good manager is born rather than trained. He has some natural ability to recognize what people are likely to do, what abilities they have, and other things like that. Realizing this, and then applying what he has learned about human behavior, is what makes someone a good manager.
So behavioral management is management based on an assessment of an individual and the application of what is known about how people in general tend to behave. Like scientific management, it is undoubtedly useful, but not, the complete answer.
选项
答案
Make business efficient/achieve goal.
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/9oTd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Manypuremetalshavelittleusebecausetheyaretoosoft,rusttooeasily,orhavesomeotherdrawback.
RivaltraditionsofactinghavecoexistedinWesterntheatersinceantiquity.
AccordingtotheAmericanRedCross,bloodandplasmadonorsareurgentlyneededafternaturaldisastersorothercatastrophes.
Whichofthefollowingistrueaccordingtotheauthor?Whendoeseducationbegin?
Scotlandistherightplacetoreceiveafirst-classeducation.AccordingtoArthurHerman,theScotsdevelopedmanyimportant
StressLevelTiedtoEducationLevelPeoplewithlesseducationsufferfewerstressfuldays,accordingtoareportinthecur
HeatIsKillerExtremelyhotweatheriscommoninmanypartsoftheworld.Althoughhotweatherjustmakesmostpeoplefeel
RisingTuitionintheUSEverySpring,USuniversityadministratorsgathertodiscussthenextacademicyear’sbudget.They
WhatisSunsetSongmainlyabout?Whatistheopeningsectionofthenovelmainlyconcernedwith?
MaasaiMaraMaasaiMaraisapartofthesouthwesterntouristcircuitandthemostpopularandvisitedgamereserveinKenya.Th
随机试题
A.中肾管B.中肾小管C.中肾旁管D.卵黄囊后壁的内胚层原始生殖细胞来源于()
骨折的临床愈合标准。
B胆汁呈
已知数字信号X和数字信号Y的波形如图7-4—5所示,则数字信号F=XY的波形为()。[2013年真题]
某房产开发公司(位于市区)2009年7月发生了下列业务:(1)将新建的一栋房屋无偿捐赠给一所小学。该房屋由其他单位施工,账面成本1000万元(成本利润率为10%);(2)以本公司的一栋旧办公楼对外投资,参与接受投资方利润分配、共同承担投资风
甲上市公司2010年初发行在外的普通股20000万股,6月1日新发行6000万股;10月1日回购4000万股,以备将来奖励职工。甲公司当年实现的利润总额为5000万元,归属于普通股股东的净利润为4800万元。则2010年甲公司基本每股收益为()。
青年期自我意识发展的最主要特点是将注意力集中到()。
首次出现专门从事教育工作的教师,产生学校的时期不是()。
已知点C(2,一3),M(1,2),N(一1,一5),则点C到直线MN的距离等于().
设f(x)在(-1,1)内二阶连续可导,且f"(x)≠0.证明:对(-1,1)内任一点x≠0,存在唯一的θ(x)∈(0,1),使得f(x)=f(0)+xf’[θ(x)x];
最新回复
(
0
)