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Understanding Management Dec 15 2009

I recently embarked on an openings course with the Open University, with a view to it being the first step for me on the way to a distance learning business degree. The openings course is mainly designed to get you into a studying frame of mind, and is perfect for someone like me who is returning to studying after six years. However, as the choices for the two openings courses on the way to a business degree seemed fairly dry (Understanding Management, or Understanding Society), I figured on the most interesting thing about the course simply being getting to grips with studying itself. I opted with Understanding Management.

As I’ve gotten through the first part of the course however, and with my first assignment submitted today, I’ve found that actually the course material has provided me with some rather interesting thoughts and concepts. The general idea that is presented throughout the first half of the course is that we are all managers. Management is made up of distinct, identifiable processes and roles, and we all implement a mixture of these processes and roles while managing tasks, however big or small they might be. We simply use a different set of these processes dependent upon the job at hand.

Instead of thinking about the stereotype of stuffy management and managers, it is important to understand what the concept actually is, and further to that, how it can be effectively applied, and become something useful for everyone who might happen to be “in charge” of something. And that really is anyone - whether it’s managing your finances, managing your workload, managing a party, or managing Christmas dinner. We’re all managers of something, and the sooner we can understand the processes that make up how we manage, the quicker we can improve them and become more efficient at it.

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