Assignment No: #1
Name: Onur
Last name: Dokmetas
Date: 09/12/2013
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Answers to Chapter One Questions
(1) There are five main functions of management;
Planning: Management decide what to do, how to do, why to do, where to do and who will be responsible for doing is planning.
Organizing: Organizing is the process of defining and grouping activities and establishing work to be done.
Directing: Interact with people , leadership and supervision are the elements come under the function of management. Directing function should influence the work performance and the behavior of the employees and groups.
Controlling and monitoring: Manager always watch work performance according to organizational objectives goals. It stimulate high performance among the staff and management personnel

Feedback (change and goal): The fifth function assessing to other function to how they perform. If it is necessary to adjustments on the functions, according to results manager rearrange the function.

All the five functions of the management should performed by managers. Also managers must be adaptable to the different possible situations to execute these functions. (6) In my opinion traditional management like military style of management. That types of managements are very hierarchical, organized, disciplined. according to hierarchical order the person who has ordered, can't tell his or her idea. The ability of management is derived from the power of the position not from management. However the project management mostly depends on soft skills - consensus building, relationships, listening, and understanding, taking the team along with you willingly than dragging them along with you. I think that qualities of the project management makes it more suitable than traditional management.

(7) Project management and it's methods had their origins in 1960s during the early