CHAPTER ACTIVITIESREVIEW QUESTIONS $1.$ What is management? Identify diff erent kinds of managers, both by levels and by areas. $2.$ What are effi ciency and eff ectiveness? $3.$ What are the major functions of management? Briefl y describe each. $4.$ Briefl y explain why history and theory are important to the fi eld of management. $5.$ What are the important contributions and weaknesses of the three schools of management?ANALYSIS QUESTIONS $1.$ Think of someone you know who is a manager. Describe that person$$s management position in terms of the type of organization in which he or she works, his or her level in the organization, and the area of manage$-$ment in which he or she practices. $2.$ Given the importance of history and theory, how can many managers operate successfully without a good understanding of either? Would they do better with such an understanding? Why? $3.$ Which school of management theory do you feel most closely matches your present ideas about how man$-$agement should function? Why? $4.$ Why were management theories of the past relatively simple? Was it because the theorists did not know much, or because the managerial world that the theorists were describing was relatively simple? Defend your view. $5.$ Illustrate the concepts of synergy, entropy, and equifi nality in a system other than a business one. $($You may need to go to the library and fi nd some articles on systems to answer this question fully.$)$