The Five Functions of Management
Management is found within every organization, whether it’s a business or a nonprofit
organization. Performance stats are based on how well supervisors are managing. There
are five functions to management: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling.
Below are further details to each function, how they all relate to one another, and how they
each effect any establishment.
Planning
The managerial function planning is defined as “determining what should be done.”
(Leonard, 2013). Elaborating further some examples would be setting goals, objectives,
policies, and procedures. Planning is the heart of the five functions of management. When
managing, one should always start with planning, as you read on you will find further that
planning goes hand in hand with the rest of the functions.
It’s not hard to plan out common activities or routines. However a manager must always be
prepared for anything. Managers need to have a plan for what-if scenarios, finding plans
that may need some revising due to certain what-if scenarios or rare emergencies. The
bottom line is the supervisor must always have a plan in order to perform proper
management.
Organizing
Second, organizing which is “arranging and distributing work among members of the work
group to accomplish the organization’s goals.” (Leonard, 2013). In organizing a lot of the
times it is planning but ‘planning on the next level’ where further detail come together,
along with order.
In this process a supervisor would divide or assign work or tasks to certain groups or
individuals. By doing that the supervisor would work on figuring and scheduling out who,
