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Management Functions

Management as a process
• Process?
Process is a systematic way of getting things done

Input Process Output


Management as a process

Human Resources

Organisational
Goal
Management

Material Resources
Functions of management process

Planning Organising Staffing

Controlling Coordinating Directing


• What kind of a process management is?
Planning
• Planning is the process of deciding the future course of action while
sitting in the present
• It involves determining the future course of action to achieve
organisational goal
Process of planning

Collect
information

Fix the
Finding out the
goals/long range
limitations
objectives

Develop policies Evaluate the


and procedures action patterns
Organising
• Organising aims at ensuring effective utilisation of scarce resources
like men, machines, materials, time and money in achieving the
objectives of the organisation.
Steps in organising

Assigning the
Identifying the Classifying the
groups of
work to be done work
individuals to work

Delegating
authority and fixing
responsibilities
Staffing
• A fundamental management function. Without proper staffing
(personnel) others functions like planning, organising, etc. will suffer.
• It involves recruiting and selecting managers to work on the project.
• Staffing aims to achieve right person at the right job at the right time.
Steps in staffing

Utilising and promoting manpower

Recruiting and selecting suitable manpower

Placement

Training and development of employess


Directing
• Directing involves guiding, instructing and overseeing the
performance of the managers to achieve predetermined goals.
• It is providing guidance to the workers to perform to the best of their
abilities
Activities involved in directing
include Leadership

Supervision Directing Communication

Motivation
Coordinating
• It involves synchronising the activities of various departments and
personnel in an organisation.
• It ensures unity of action among workgroups, individuals and
department
• To achieve the organisational goal, all departments must work in an
integrated manner
• It also prevents conflict and overlapping of effort
Sub-functions of coordinating

Clear
explanation of
Unity of
authority-
command
responsibility
relationship

Effective Unity of
communication direction
Controlling
• The final stage of management process
• Controlling is looking backward
• Involves comparing the actual performance with the standard and
then taking necessary action, if needed.
Steps involved in controlling

Measure the Compare Take


actual the actual corrective
performance performance actions, if
with the required
standards

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