Functions of management | basic functions of management

Improving your understanding of the functions of management can help you effectively manage the company or your team. It can assist you to understand at the minimum the purpose of certain divisions. Such as quality control, recruitment or training.

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Basic functions of management

 As a frontline leader, it can help you appreciate the activities and tasks you need to do. There are five functions of management. These are, -

Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Control

Planning

Planning is charting the future. It is deciding in advance, -

What to do?

When to do it? and

How it's going to be done?

It can be as big as deciding the invention, vision and objectives of an organization or a plan to improve certain business metric of your group. It is identifying what you want? when you should achieve it? and how it will be achieved?

Organizing

Next Organizing is called the backbone of management. Organizing is a grouping of activities together. Think of your department, all employees that hire additional employees or group under the recruitment department. Or those who advertise and sell the product served under marketing and sales. And those who actually make the product or services work under productions or operations.

Organizing is also creating the organizational structure or hierarchy of the business. It's the delegation of authority and creation of responsibilities and tasks. Organizing also ensures that whatever necessary items the business or department needs are met, for example, the requirement for materials like, - machinery or computers, capital and personnel.

staffing

Third staffing is commonly associated with hiring and promoting employees. As an element of management, it goes more than that. As it involves training and development, remuneration or compensation and performance appraisal.

The directing, on the other hand, makes the plans concrete. It involves supervision, motivation, leadership and guidance of employees. All of these are done to ensure that organizational goals are met.

Controlling

Finally controlling is measuring performance on a set of standards and correcting any deviation. Let's say your actual Net Promoter Score or client satisfaction is lower than the target. The control would mean creating the fundamental steps to correct and achieve the target.

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In general frontline, the leader would typically do a smaller version of each function. On a bigger level, each function can be represented by various divisions or roles. Planning is normally done by middle managers and up, for example, department managers or region head. Organizing is done by HR or senior managers. While staffing is handled by training recruitment and HR. Directing is handled by frontline leaders or operations. control is handled by quality control.

These are just some general activities of each function and each industry or business will have more or less depending on their needs and one. So, these are the functions of management.

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