Text 2. Management style

All managers have management styles, even if they've never thought about their approach to management. Most managers define their jobs in terms of the tasks to be done rather than the methods to be used. Their management styles are usually just extensions of their personal styles. Managing people is far too important to be left to chance.

Your employees are one of your valuable resources. Just as you need to take care of other resources in your company, such as equipment and materials, you must make certain you are not wasting your human resources. Moreover, you want to develop a management style that is independent of the personalities of your key managers and that instead fits your corporate culture. Your corporate culture should permeate (проникать, пропитывать) every aspect of your business and should reflect how you want your employees and customers to see you. Your management style should reinforce your corporate culture and company message.

For most companies, especially smaller companies, building a sense of teamwork is essential. Help your employees feel they are an important part of the organization and that their contribution matters. Communication is a vital ingredient in team building; if employees know what's going on in the company, they feel a part of the whole picture.

Regardless of your management style, remember that everyone, whether mailroom clerk or company president, wants to feel important. Recognize achievement, both privately and publicly. Reward initiative with both monetary and nonmonetary awards. Acknowledge jobs well done. Solicit suggestions, and be responsive to concerns.

The five most important elements of your management style are:

1. Clear Policies

2. Communication

3. Employee Recognition

4. Employee's Ability to Affect Change

5. Fairness

2) Выучите эти слова и словосочетания

ability	способность
assess	оценивать
carry out one' s functions	выполнять свои функции
common common sense	общий здравый смысл
compete	конкурировать
conclude	заключать
creation	создание
customer	потребитель
deal with	иметь дело, заниматься
decision-making	принятие решений
demand (for)	спрос
determine	определять
develop	разрабатывать, развивать
decision	решение
directing	управление, руководство
discipline employee employer	отрасль знания служащий работодатель, предприниматель
exceed	превышать
exist	cуществовать
expenses	затраты
experience	опыт
firm	твердый
fit	годный, подходящий, здоровый
flexibility	гибкость
forecast	предвидеть, предсказывать
handle people	обращаться с людьми
humanities impact managing director	гуманитарные науки влияние директор-распорядитель (исполнительное лицо компании)
negotiate	вести переговоры, заключать сделки
objective	цель
perform	исполнять, выполнять
personnel	персонал
require	требовать
persuade	убеждать
planning	планирование
predict	предсказывать
preference	предпочтение
profit-making non-profit	коммерческий, прибыльный некоммерческий
quality	качество
relationship	взаимоотношения, связь
responsibility be responsible (for)	ответственность быть ответственным (за)
revenue	доход
solution	решение
staffing	подбор штата (кадров)
supervise supervisor	заведовать, контролировать руководитель
supply	предложение
survive	выжить
terms	условия
transaction	сделка
variety	разнообразие
viewpoint	точка зрения