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The purpose of this exercise is to build bridges between what your read in this chapter and what’s going on in the world today. Thanks to the internet you have loads of current information at your fingertips to keep you up to date. Go to the home page of Business Week (www.businessweek.com ) and click on ‘BW Home’. Alternatively, depending on your interests, you may want to start with the heading ‘Small Business’, ‘Global Business’, ‘Careers’ or ‘Technology’. Find an article dealing with one or more of the key topics in this chapter, such as managing people, productivity, the manager’s key tasks, the assumptions of Taylor’s theories, … Questions 1 What prompted you to select that particular article? 2 What is the OB-related linkage between Chapter 1 and your article? 3 What useful or interesting material did you acquire from your selected article? 4 Based on your reading, are you now more or less interested in becoming a manager? |