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Lesson 1 Definition and Functions of Management

This document discusses the definition and functions of management. It defines management as the process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling activities in an organization to efficiently achieve goals. The key functions of management are identified as planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, and controlling. Planning involves determining goals, strategies, and coordination activities. Organizing is arranging resources and assigning responsibilities. Staffing is acquiring and developing human resources. Leading includes motivating and providing direction to employees. Controlling monitors progress and ensures goals are achieved.

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Lesson 1 Definition and Functions of Management

This document discusses the definition and functions of management. It defines management as the process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling activities in an organization to efficiently achieve goals. The key functions of management are identified as planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, and controlling. Planning involves determining goals, strategies, and coordination activities. Organizing is arranging resources and assigning responsibilities. Staffing is acquiring and developing human resources. Leading includes motivating and providing direction to employees. Controlling monitors progress and ensures goals are achieved.

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DEFINITION AND

FUNCTIONS OF
MANAGEMENT
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• DISCUSS THE MEANING AND FUNCTIONS OF


MANAGEMENT;
• EXPLAIN THE VARIOUS TYPES OF MANAGEMENT; AND
• UNDERSTAND THE BASIC THEORIES OF
MANAGEMENT.
Let’s have first a
brainstorming!
Formative Assessment

PICTURE ME!
Formative Assessment
Formative Assessment
Formative Assessment
planning
teamwork
organize
managing
goals
communication
leadership
WHAT IS MANAGEMENT?

HISTORY

HUMAN CREATION

EGYPTIAN
CIVILIZATION
• Art of getting things done through others.
• It is to forecast, control, plan and evaluate.
By:
• It is the process by which you do planning, organizing, staffing,
directing and controlling the activities in the organization.
• It is the process of coordinating and overseeing the work
performance of individuals working together in organizations
so that they could efficiently accomplish their chosen aims and
goals.
• It is a process of designing and maintaining an environment for
efficiently selected aims.
FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT

Planning

Controlling Organizing

Leading Staffing
1. PLANNING

• A process by which you think in advance what you need to do.

Manager

• What to do?

• How to do?

• Who will do it?

• When will we do it?


• It is also a forward looking and future oriented.
• Involves determining the organization’s goals and
performance objectives, defining strategic actions
that must be done to accomplish them and
developing coordination and integration
activities.
2. ORGANIZING

• It is a process in which you are arranging group of people and getting the
works done.
• Assigning the people the responsibilities and specific jobs;
• Giving the people authorities.
• Demands assigning tasks, setting aside funds, and bringing harmonious
relations among the individuals and work groups or teams in the
organization.
Organization Structure
WHY DO WE NEED AN ORGANIZATION
STRUCTURE?

• Because, it is a framework of organization or they call it a


skeletal of human body.
• It is a stare way that organization structure is a framework in
organization because it represents the different level and it gives
clearly who are the people on the top and who are the people in
the middle and in the lower level.
3. STAFFING

• It is a process of acquiring people in the organization.


• It is a very crucial step in management.

No Human Resources
Human Resources

 Support of your system

 Pilar of the organization


• Staffing also indicates filling in the different job
positions in the organization’s structure.
• The factors that influence this function include:
1. size of the organization, types of jobs;
2. number of individuals to be recruited;
3. and some internal or external pressures.
5 M’S OF MANAGEMENT
Money
Materials Methods

Machine

Men
ELABORATIVE FUNCTION UNDER
STAFFING
Human Resource Planning
Recruitment and Selecting
Training and Development
Compensation
Performance Appraisal
Career Development
4. DIRECTING/LEADING

• It is a process in which you are giving an input to the employees.

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