Function of management, different authors, managemnet

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FUNCTION OF MANAGEMENT

Faraha Lugman

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OVERVIEW• What is management?• Importance of management • Levels of management• 5 main function of management

– Planning – Organizing– Staffing– Directing– Controlling

• Functions of management discovered by – Henry Fayol– Lyndall Urwick– Luther Gullick– Koontz and O'Donnell– Earnest dale

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What is Management?

• It is the art of getting things done through others

• Control the functions of management to achieve organizational goals

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Importance of Management• Improves relations• Encourages team work• Encourage innovations• Motivates employee• Optimum use of resources

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Levels of Management

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TOP LEVEL

MIDDLE LEVEL

LOWER LEVEL

5 MAIN functions of management

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Planning

Controlling

Directing

Organizing

Staffing

Planning• Planning is deciding in advance what is to be done in

the future• “According to koontz and O ‘Donnell defines

planning is deciding in advance what to do, how to do it, when to do it and who is to do it. Planning bridges the gap from where we are to where we want to go. It makes it possible for things to occur which would not otherwise happen”

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Organizing• It is the process of identifying & grouping works• Defining & delegating responsibility• Authority & establishing relationships• Helps to work efficiently• According to Henri Fayol “To organize a business

means to provide it with everything useful to its functioning-raw materials, tools, capital and personnel”

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Staffing• Ensuring of the right person for the right job at the right time• According to koontz and O Donnel “The managerial functions

of staffing involves manning the organizational structure through proper and effective selection, appraisal and development of personnel to fill the roles designed in to the structure.

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Directing • Giving instructions, guiding, counseling, motivating

and leading staffs • To achieve organizational goals• It is concerned with the execution of plans through

organized action. • It is also known as commanding or actuating

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Controlling • Involves measuring against the established objectives and

goals• Linked with planning• “ according to Harold koontz controlling is the measurement

and correction of performance in order to make sure that enterprise objectives and the plans devised to attain them are accomplished”

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Function of management discovered by different authors

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Henry Fayol

He discovered 5 functions of management

PlanningOrganizingCommanding: supervising subordinates in day to day task and pushing them towards company goal.Co ordinating: balancing the procedures and activities performed by the companycontrolling

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Lyndall Urwick

He identified 6 function of management

PlanningorganizingCommandingco ordinatingControllingForecasting :relying on data from the past and present, and analysis of trends

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Luther GullickIn 1937 he created (posdcorb), the 7 function of management

PlanningOrganizingStaffingDirectingCo ordinatingReporting : keeping him and his subordinates informed through records and research etc.Budgeting :fiscal planning, accounting and controlling.

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Koontz & o DonnelThey discovered 5 function of management

PlanningOrganizingStaffingLeading :is the same meaning as directingControlling

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Earnest dale

According to him functions of managements are:PlanningOrganizingStaffingDirectingControllingInnovation: making or introducing, such as new methods and new procedures etc.Representation: representing his organization in front of stake holders

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conclusion

• All the functions of management are important in management process

• It is a continues process • It is group activity• It is goal oriented• It is a art

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References

• http://managementinnovations.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/role-importance-of-managemen

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing• http://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-functions

-management-leading-56418.html

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