Section 1 Brief introduction of management

     Management is used widely in people’s lives and it has different meanings. People take certain measures to promote management to obtain their expected objectives to a large extent. For the negotiating parties concerned, international business negotiations should be managed well to accomplish the desirable targets.

     Now, let’s have a look at the basic functions, roles, and skills of management.

1.1 Basic functions of management

 According to a variety of divisions of the functions of management by different scholars, management generally has the following four basic functions: A. planning, B. organizing, C. leading and D. controlling.

1.2 Basic roles and skills of management

     1.2.1 Roles of management

 First of all, let’s have a look at the roles of management. Management has three roles, namely, interpersonal roles, informational roles, and decisive roles.

     1.2.2 Skills of management

 Second, as for skills of management, there are five aspects, that is, political, conceptual, interpersonal, diagnostic, and technical skills.