FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT Flashcards
What are the 5 Functions of Management?
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing/Leading
Controlling
- Sets the goal of an organization.
- Deals the with chalking out a future course of action nd deciding in advance
Planning
- Establishing the framework of working.
- organizing activities
Organizing
Recruiting, selecting, and appointing the employees assigning duties, maintaining cordial relationships, and taking care of the grievance of employees
- evaluating their performance
Staffing
- Motivating the people
- giving direction or instruction to employees to get the job done
Directing/Leading
- Evaluating
- matching actual performance with the planned goal
Controlling
Who said, “Efficiency is doing things right: effectiveness is doing the right things”
Peter Drucker
Making things without wasting resources
Efficient and effective
- the mother of modern management
- art of getting things done through other people
Mary Parker Follett
scientific management theory assumed that productivity could increase by making jobs simpler and optimizing them.
Fredrick W. Taylor
an art of getting things done through and with the people in formally organized groups
Harold Koontz
What are the three roles of a manager
- Interpersonal role
- Informational role
- Decisional role
The manager shall provide direction to the activities in outputs of his or her subordinates
Interpersonal role
The manager shall monitor, track’
, disseminate and be a spokesperson of the information inside and outside the organization
Informational role
The manager is an entrepreneur, disturbance, handler, resources allocator and a negotiator
Decisional role
