Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals. A good manager does this both efficiently and effectively. This means that not only does the manager get the tasks done, but he or she also does it in a timely manner, controls costs and use its people and materials wisely. There are four types of management functions: Planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
Planning is the management function of systematically making decisions about the goals and activities that an individual, a group, a work unit, or the overall organization will pursue. Planning is specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding the appropriate actions needed to achieve those goals. Planning includes analyzing current situations, anticipating the future, determining objectives, deciding in what types of activities the company will engage, choosing corporate and business strategies and determining the resources needed to achieve be organizational goals.
In my organization, in my position, a lot of time goes into planning. We have to plan for quarterly board of director’s meetings, bi-annual strategic planning meetings, annual business planning meetings and monthly management meeting and financial reviews. One of the main aspects of my job is planning all of these meeting and making sure they are executed effectively, efficiently and at the lowest possible cost.
Organizing is the management function of assembling and coordinating human, financial, physical, informational, and other resources needed to achieve goals. Organizing activities include attracting people to the organization, specifying job responsibilities, grouping jobs into work units, marshaling and allocating resources, and creating conditions so that people and things work together to achieve maximum success. Effective managers build organizations that are flexible and