Internal and External Factors Paper
Avon Banks
MGT/230
September 29, 2015
Zina Hampton

Introduction It is so important that managers understand how to manage. This word manage is not just getting employees to conform to a specific thing or a standard. As a leader being able to manage involves planning and leading, organizing and controlling. A good leader or manager may not be able to hone these four areas as an expert right away, but with mentoring, training, and time from upper and middle management the excellence will come. Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals. Good managers do those things both well and proficiently. To be successful is to accomplish organizational goals. To be good at your job is to achieve goals with minimal waste of resources, to effectively make the best use of money, time, equipment, and people. Internal and external factors has a lot to do with how a leader is able to function in management. In 2006 a study was done in Korea to determine the internal and external environmental factors associated with home nursing care (HNC). The study was done on eighty nine hospitals and was conducted to understand the impact the corresponding factors would have on performance. The study found out that the passion and the love the nurses had for caring for the elderly was significant. Considering the limited market size of Korea, illustrated that the significant factor for the development of hospital-led HNCs lies with internal environmental factors rather than external ones. In other words, the passion the nurses displayed for the elderly in those hospitals was the most important contributing factor. Factors and Functions We already know that the four functions of management are planning, leading, organizing, and controlling. Some of the external