around pleasing the customer at a profit.
2. Organizations must remain flexible and adapta-
ble to respond to customers’ changing needs.
D. LEADING means creating a vision for the organiza-
tion and guiding, training, coaching, and motivating
others to work effectively to achieve the organiza-
tion’s goals and objectives in a timely manner.
1. Today, most managers EMPOWER employees,
giving them as much freedom as possible.
2. This function was once known as DIRECTING;
that is, telling employees exactly what to do.
3. Leadership is still needed to keep employees fo-
cused on the right tasks at the right time.
E. CONTROLLING is a management function that in-
volves establishing clear standards to determine
whether or not an organization is progressing to-
ward its goals and objectives, rewarding people for
doing a good job, and taking corrective action if they
are not.
F. The four functions are the heart of management.
learning objective 3
Relate the planning process and decision making to the accomplishment of
company goals.
III. PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING
A. PLANNING involves setting the organizational vi-
sion, goals, and objectives.
1. A VISION is an encompassing explanation of
why the organization exists and where it is