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DIFFERENT_FUNCTIONS_OF_MANAGERS">DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS OF MANAGERS

Management operates through various functions, often classified as planning, organizing, leading/motivating and controlling.

  • Planning: deciding what needs to happen in the future (today, next week, next month, next year, over the next 5 years, etc.) and generating plans for action.
  • Organizing: making optimum use of the resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.
  • Leading/Motivating: exhibiting skills in these areas for getting others to play an effective part in achieving plans.
  • Controlling: monitoring -- checking progress against plans, which may need modification based on feedback

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Koontz and O'Donnell classify these management functions into planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling functions. Joseph Massie and Warren Haynes categorizes these functions into decision-making, organizing, staffing, planning, controlling, communicating and directing. Innovation and representation are the two complementary functions of management considered by Ernest Dale.

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