The first week and lessons for Business and Management

It has been a fruitful week in the previous University life. I got to learn new things deeply compared to my high school life in HK.

 

The studying environment here is totally different from my home country. We got plenty of time to study by ourselves which was call self-study. It was totally different from the teachers in high school which just give us most of the book knowledge and keep on memorizing business book.

 

The previous week, I have had a Business law and Business and Management lesson. It was quite interesting even it just talk about introduction. For Business and Management, I don’t feel too much difficult for my first week, I bet it’s because it’s just an introduction. I have learnt about organization and Management. I learnt some common features in organizations such as, people, target, manager and structure. We have discussed them individually. Each organizations need to have a well communication and structure to become successful. I have also learnt the definition for it. However, only memorizing it is not enough, we need to deeply know what it means. I remember the tutor told us her 5 years old daughter can memories it, so what’s the difference between her daughter and us!

 

In addition, we learnt the role of management too. For example, each company would produce more than their input. They would intake people, materials and resources to provide customers services, goods and also waste which damage the environment.

 

For the basic structure of organisations, there are operational core and support. Organisation support and the top management, But of course the utmost important, middle management. This shows the front line and how direct they would help us when we need them. Some of them would be the backup, some will transfer their services, and some will support their front line.

 

Moreover, we have also learnt lots of different types of organisations. For example economic, public service, social enterprise, protective, social or associative and political organsations. These organization acts as different parties. Some would earn income from customers, some would help people who are in need. For University of Sussex, it was a educational organization. It provide education for us.

 

Lastly, we have learnt the utmost important about management. They are in the work of Herny Mintzberg and also Henri Fayol. Mintzberg combines ten management roles and he divided these into three groups, ie, informational, interpersonal and decisional. Fayol also set out 6 managerial activities, ie, forecasting, planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating and also controlling. This two person is very important for us to learn about Business and Management.