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    LESSON 1 Definition and Functions of Management

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    Management involves coordinating and overseeing the work of individuals in an organization to efficiently achieve goals. It includes five major functions: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Planning involves determining goals, strategies, and coordination activities. Organizing assigns tasks and resources. Staffing fills key positions considering factors like size and needs. Leading influences subordinates to help achieve goals. Controlling evaluates and corrects performance to ensure goals are met. Coordination, efficiency, and effectiveness are intrinsic to management functions and ensure harmonious work, optimal resource use, and correct actions to help the organization's aims.

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    Management involves coordinating and overseeing the work of individuals in an organization to efficiently achieve goals. It includes five major functions: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Planning involves determining goals, strategies, and coordination activities. Organizing assigns tasks and resources. Staffing fills key positions considering factors like size and needs. Leading influences subordinates to help achieve goals. Controlling evaluates and corrects performance to ensure goals are met. Coordination, efficiency, and effectiveness are intrinsic to management functions and ensure harmonious work, optimal resource use, and correct actions to help the organization's aims.

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    Management involves coordinating and overseeing the work of individuals in an organization to efficiently achieve goals. It includes five major functions: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Planning involves determining goals, strategies, and coordination activities. Organizing assigns tasks and resources. Staffing fills key positions considering factors like size and needs. Leading influences subordinates to help achieve goals. Controlling evaluates and corrects performance to ensure goals are met. Coordination, efficiency, and effectiveness are intrinsic to management functions and ensure harmonious work, optimal resource use, and correct actions to help the organization's aims.

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    LESSON 1 Definition and Functions of Management

    Management is the process of coordinating and overseeing the work performance of individuals
    working together in organisations, so that they could efficiently accomplish their chosen aims or goals.

    It is also defined as the process of designing and maintaining am environment for efficiently
    accomplishing selected aims. (Heinz, Weihrich, and Koontz,2005).

    Management analysis is done by breaking it down into five major managerial duties; thus, making
    managerial knowledge more understandable. Management functions include the following:

    Planning involves determining the organisation's goals or performance objectives, defining strategic
    actions that must be done to accomplish them, and developing coordination and integration activities.

    Organizing. Demans assigning tasks and setting aside funds and bringing harmonious relations among
    the individuals and work groups or teams in the organization.

    Staffing. Indicates filling in the different key positions in the organization's structure, the factors that
    influence this function include: size of the organization, types of jobs, numbers of individuals to be
    recruited, and some internal or external pressures.

    Leading. Entails influencing or motivating subordinates to do their best so that they would be able to
    help the organization's endeavor to attain their set goals.

    Controlling. Involves evaluating and, if necessary, correcting the performer of the individuals or work
    groups or teams to enure that they are all working toward the previously set goals and plans of the
    organization.

    Coordination, Efficiency, and Effectiveness:Intrinsic to the Nature of Management

    Management function-planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling-will all to him


    coordination, efficiency and effectiveness are not practiced by an organizations appointed manager.

    In other words, up-level management, middle-level managers, and team leader Or supervisors must all
    be conscious of the said practices organizations an they perform their management functions Webster
    Dictionary defines condition as the harmonious, inte grated action of the various ports and processes of
    an organization; efficiency in being able to yield the maximum output from minimum ant of imput, and
    effectiveness as being adopted to produce anelfecte heing abie to do things correctly When appied to
    management functions coordination ensures that all individuals, gruppets a harmoni ously working
    together and moving toward the accomplishment of the Grant 's vision, Missions, and objectives,
    efficiency man while refers to the optimal use of scarce resources-human financial physical and
    mechanical order to bring maximum productivity and effectiveness means doing thing currently what
    engaged in active that will help the organization in its aims.

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