Learning Objectives

Chapter 1

  • Describe a manager’s responsibility.
  • List and explain the three management skills.
  • List and explain the four management functions.
  • Identify the three management role categories.
  • List the hierarchy of management levels.
  • Describe the three different types of managers.
  • Describe the differences among management levels in terms of skills needed and functions performed.
  • State the major similarities and differences between the classical and behavioral theorists.
  • Describe how systems theorists and contingency theorists differ from classical and behavioral theorists.