August 21, 2012

Basic functions of management

Essential functions of organizational management are often classified as planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, controlling/monitoring and motivation.

  • Planning: This is all about deciding what needs to happen in the future and generating plans for action.
  • Organizing: Entails implementing pattern of relationships among workers, making optimum use of the resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.
  • Staffing: Job analysis, recruitment and hiring for appropriate jobs.
  • Leading/directing: Determining what needs to be done in a situation and getting people to do it.
  • Controlling/monitoring: Checking progress against plans.
  • Motivation: Without motivation, employees cannot work effectively. If motivation does not take place in an organization, then employees may not contribute to the other functions (which are usually set by top-level management).

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