Roles and Functions
MELISSA SPENCER
HCS/325
June 24, 2013
Kathy Lawrence

Roles and Functions
There are four main different functions that a manager will practice in a health care setting. These four functions are organizing, planning, controlling and leading. “Organizing is the process of assigning task, allocating resources, and arranging and coordinating the activities and groups to implement groups; planning is the process of setting performance objectives and determining what actions should be taken to accomplish them; controlling is the process of measuring the work performance, comparing results to objectives and taking corrective action as needed; leading is the process of arousing people’s enthusiasm to work hard to fulfill plans and accomplish objectives” (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007, ).
As a manager in a previous job, I do know that with my personal experience that most of the time the four functions of management basically overlapped each other or they were not done in order. As managers, we can be so caught up in the task that we are doing that it isn’t recognized that these functions of management are not being done correctly. During this previous job, I did tend to notice that something just wasn’t functioning properly. I began to slow down my routine to see if I could find where the flaw was in my managing. When it came to the function of controlling I found that is where I had some problems going on. Once, I readjusted what I was doing; my management skills became better.
Elaine (n.d.), “health care manger should be able to recognize and communicate with diversity”. Our country is diverse, and therefore the health care industry needs to make sure they can understand and handle each patient’s ethnicity. A health care professional who assumes a management role must recognize that this transition involves adopting a second and concurrent