Unit IV

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 441.

Say what you've learned from the text.

a) about planning and its importance in management

b) about organizing and its basic elements;

c) the functions of managers.

MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS.

STAFFING, LEADING AND CONTROLLING

Staffing involves filling and keeping filled the positions in the organization structure.

This is done by defining work-force requirements, inventorying the people available, recruiting, selecting, placing, promoting, planning the career, compensating and training or otherwise developing both candidates and current job holders to accomplish their task effectively and efficiently.

Leading is influencing people so that they will contribute to organization and group goals; it has to do with the interpersonal aspect of managing.

All managers would agree that their most important problems arise from people – their desires and attitudes, their behaviour as individuals and in groups.

Effective managers also need to be effective leaders.

Since leadership implies followership and people tend to follow, those who offer a means of satisfying their own needs, wishes and desires, it is understandable that leading involves motivation, leadership styles and approaches, and communication.

Controlling is the measuring and correcting of activities of subordinates to ensure that events conform to plans.

It measures performance against goals and plans, shows where negative deviations exist and by correcting deviations helps ensure accomplishment of plans.

Although planning must precede controlling, plans are not self-achieving. The plan guides managers in the use of resources to accomplish specific goals.

Then activities are checked to determine whether they conform to plans.

Control activities generally relate to the measurement of achievement. Each means of controlling shows whether plans are working out.

If deviations persist correction is indicated. But what is corrected? Activities, through persons.

Nothing can be done unless one knows who is responsible for these functions. Making events to conform to plans means locating the persons who are responsible for results that differ from planned action and then taking the necessary steps to improve performance. Thus, outcomes are controlled by controlling what people do.