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Question
1. To understand what managers do, What is the difference between being efficient and being effective? How would I define the four functions of management?
2. As well as variation across the levels of management (first-tier, middle and top), how would you expect the manager's role to vary with the extent to which the organisational environment is changing, such as through new technology, changes in market demand or new forms of competition?
3. Mintzberg's study in the 1960s came up with three important findings about a manager's routine. What are they, and are they probably still the same today?
4. What is the potential importance of studying how managers like to spend their work time as well as how they actually allocate their work time between different activities?
5. Explain how there is a difference between successful and effective managers in terms of how each type of manager might tend to spend their time.
6. Identify the seven challenges faced by most managers, and which one is the one I will probably most have to worry about during my lifetime.