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1. What is management? What functions do managers perform? What does setting objectives involve? What do managers organize? How do managers practice the social skills of motivation and communication? Why do managers have to measure the performance of their stuff? Whom do managers develop? What makes a good manager? What skills and qualities are required for the position of a manager? What are top managers responsible for? Is management an art or a science? What is the difference between manahers and entrepreneurs? How can the term "entrepreneur" be defined? How do entrepreneurs differ from other people?

2. Managemenr roles. What major functions do all managers, regardless of level in the organisation or job title, perform? What is a manager's role? What does 'wearing differ hats' mean in the management job? What do the following roles require a manager to do: a Figurehead Role, a Leadership Role, a Monitor Role, a Spokesperson Role, an Entrepreneur Role, a Resource Allocator Role? What managerial role implies interaction with others besides superior and subordinates? What is the manager's role when parts of the work environment get out of control? What resources can managers allocate? Why is Negotiator Role one of the most important ones for a manager?

3. Women in Management. Do you think men's and women's attitudes to jobs are different? What is your attitude to female managers? Do you think the attitides to women in management are changing in the modern world? Give your reasons and examples. Why is business still called 'a boy' game? What is a 'glass ceilling sendrome'? What do women usually manage better than men? Who is much less likely to take risks? What makes corporate high fliers? Who will more readily take the initiative? Why do women seem to be better communicators than men? What capacity makes women particularly effective in people-oriented areas of business?

4. Company structure. How are companies organized? What are the features and main advantages of a hierarchical or pyramidal structure? Why is is difficult to organize all activities of most companies in a single hierarchy? Who was the first to organize a business according to the functions that it had to carry out? What structure do most large manufacturing organizations now have? What are the disadvantages of a functional structure? Is having a single production department efficietn for a large organization manufacturing a range of products? Why are the most large companies decentralized? How can business that cannot be divided into autonomous divisions simulate decentralization? How is the idea of decentralization implemented in banks? What is an inherent problem of hierarchies? What is the main featire of matrix management? What is the role of autonomous, temporary groups or teams in matrix management? What are drawbacks of matrix team? Why do they still require a definite leafer?

5. Strategic Planning. What are top managers responsible for? What does strategic planning onvolve? What does a company mission mean? Why is deciding the mission and purpose the foundation of any planning? Give some examples. What must a company do after deciding on its mission and purpose? What can a company draw up after establishing its specific, mediumterm objectives? What do the company's planners have to look at before deciding strategies? What analysis is carried out by managers? What do they  examine and assess? What does the analysis of internal factors involve? What does the analysis of external factors involve? What is the importance of a SWOT analysis? What can the company evaluate after having completed the SWOT analysis?

6. Mergers and acquisitions. What is a merger? Why do companies merge? Why do some mergers fail? How to manage a marger effectively?What are the arguments in favour of mergers or takeovers? What are the arguments against mergers or takeovers? What are the advantages of a raid as compared to a takeover?

7. Recruitment. Why are employees who leave a company not always replaced? How many employees be replaced? How do employees occasionally recruit for junior management positions? Whose services do companies sometimes use for staffing senior positions? Where can people looking for work or wanting to change their job generally find information about existing vacancies? What does applying for a job mean? Speak about a typical selection process.

8. Theories of motivation. Why is motivation one of the most important elements of any manager's job? What motivates employees to work harder? What is Maslow's Theory of motivation based on? How do people satisfy their needs according to his theory? peak about the hierarchy of human needs: psysiological needs, security needs, esteem needs, self-realization and self-actializing needs? Why have many people disputed Maslow's theory? What can motivate and bring satisfaction according to Herzberg? What things did he consider to be "satisfiers" or "motivators"? What are the ways of motivating people in unskilled jobs? Why do many people now talk about the importance of a company's corporate culture? What values can more effectively motivate people than bonuses and fringe benefits?

9. Production and operations management. What three basic functions do manufacturing companies require? Why? What are the objectives of the production department? Why do most companies have to choose between price, quality, and flexibility? What does production and operations management involve? Why are people particularly important in organizations offering a service rather than making a product? What research on new products should be done? What decisions have to be made if it is necessary to construct a new plant or storage facility? What it is necessary to take into account?

10. Just-in-time production. What is Just-In-Time production? How does it differ from the European and American production and operations management systems? What does it depend on? What are the advantages of this system? What does JIT minimize? What is outsourcing? Why do the Japanese prefer small, specialized production plants with a limited capacity? What does JIT greatly reduce? Why should any quality problems or product defects be noticed more quickly?

11. Operations Management. What is operations management? What is important for success in operations management? What were Taylor's principles of scientific operations management? What four theories does modern operations management revolve around? What is BPR and when was it formulated? What four theories does modern operations management revolve around? What is BPR and when was it formulated? What are reconfigurable manufacturing systems? What is Six Sigma and what does it focus on? What tools are used within the Six Sigma process? What brought the Six Sigma approach a great deal of popularity? What is lean manufacturing?

12. Quality Control. What is quality control? How does the business create a nearly perfect environment for quality control? Why are various production activities completed by different staff members? How do companies create benchmarks for product quality? What is the purpose of testing products? Why is testing done at the various stages of manufacturing? Why does the quality control type depend on the product? Give some examples. What do the quality control inspectors do? What option does the control inspector have if the testing process reveals issues with the product? What is quality measurement? What does TQM require?

13. Total Quality Management. What is TQM? Do you agree that quality is free? What costs may result from production that is not 100% perfect? What have quality theorists such as Joseph Juran, W.E. Deming, and Crosby shown? Why should the company still continuously look for product improvement, even if the current quality level appears perfect? What is benchmarking? Who is a quality inspector in TQM? What need does the approach "quality at the source" remove? Why is prevention much cheaper than failures? How have many large Japanese companies been able to attain high quality? What circles did the Japanese invent?

14. Six Sigma. What is Six Sigma? What do practitioners of Six Sigma use to achieve improved business functionality?What industries in Six Sigma now applicable to? When is business considered efficietn in Six Sigma approach? What do Siz Sigma training program teach? What are the Five Steps of Six Sigma? What approach do true believers and practitioners in the Six Sigma method follow? What does DMAIC mean? What is the principal difference betweem the Six Sigma and TQM?