Warsaw, Poland

Business and Management

Bachelor's
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⇑Business and Management at UW

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: en.uw.edu.pl

⇑Test: Is Business and Management the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You’re organising a trip with friends. What role do you take on?

2. A café you often go to is getting fewer and fewer customers. What goes through your mind?

3. In a group project at school, one person isn’t doing anything. How do you respond?

4. In class, an international group analyses case studies of companies from different countries, in English. How do you feel about that?

5. You get your first pay packet. What do you do with it?

6. Are you interested in how big companies make decisions, such as opening a new shop or launching a product?

7. You have to choose between two options, each with pros and cons. How do you decide?

8. How good are you at winning people over to your ideas?

9. Imagine you’re leading a team one day. What matters most to you?

10. What motivates you most to study Business and Management?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Business
Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling goods or services. Simply put, it is "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit. It does not mean it is a company, a corporation, partnership, or have any such formal organization, but it can range from a street peddler to General Motors." The term is also often used colloquially (but not by lawyers or public officials) to refer to a company, but this article will not deal with that sense of the word.
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.
Business
All businesses operate below their true potential. That is unavoidable, given the fallibility of human beings.
Robert Heller, British management journalist and author. 'The Competitors', Chapter 10, The Decision makers (1989).
Management
It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.
Jim C. Collins (2001). Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't p. 41.
Management
Poorly managed corporations, disorganized businesses, and badly led service agencies experience crisis daily and most will eventually fail. In contrast, the danger is to well organized, smooth running institutions that may not recognize a building crisis. Too often, sound organizations rely on their normal modus operandi to pull them through a crisis. It might. But at what cost? And what if it does not pull them through?
Wheeler L. Baker, Crisis Management: A Model for Managers (1993), p. 6
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