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Management Is The Process of Reaching Organizational Goals by Working With and Through

Management involves reaching organizational goals through people and resources. It is a continuous process consisting of planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling. Planning involves choosing tasks to achieve goals and assigning responsibilities. Organizing assigns tasks to groups. Influencing guides people toward fulfilling goals. Controlling measures performance and modifies plans.

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Management Is The Process of Reaching Organizational Goals by Working With and Through

Management involves reaching organizational goals through people and resources. It is a continuous process consisting of planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling. Planning involves choosing tasks to achieve goals and assigning responsibilities. Organizing assigns tasks to groups. Influencing guides people toward fulfilling goals. Controlling measures performance and modifies plans.

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Management is the process of reaching organizational goals by working with and through

people and other organizational resources and has the following characteristics:

 It is a process or series of continuous and related activities.


 It involves and concentrates on reaching organizational goals. It strives for
organizational goals by working with and through people and other organizational
resources.

MANAGERIAL FUNCTIONS

The 4 basic management functions that make up the management process are described in the
following sections:

 Planning
 Organizing
 Influencing
 Controlling

Planning

 This involves choosing tasks that must be performed to attain organizational goals, to
outline how the tasks must be performed and to indicate when they should be
performed.

Organizing

 involves the act of assigning the tasks developed in the planning stages to various
individuals or groups to create a mechanism to put plans into action.

Influencing

 also known as motivating, leading or directing by guiding the activities of organization


members towards the fulfilment of the goal.

Controlling

 both a managerial function and a continuous process where the manager performs the
following roles:
 gathers information that measures performance;
 compares present performance to pre-established performance norms; and
 determines the next action plan and modifications for meeting the desired
performance parameters.
Activity:
Answer the following questions:

1. What are the 4 basic management functions?


2. How do the different managerial functions differ from each other?
3. What functions should be emphasized? Explain.

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