| Assignment One: Literature Review Essay | | | Kyra Naismith | Student ID: 211327019Tutor: Mona ChungCompleted: 05/08/2011 |

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The depiction of management as a rational and technical task of ‘planning, organizing, leading and controlling’ are only the basics of managing and what being a manager is actually about. It involves many more complex skills and knowledge, which I’ve discovered through the reading of Knights and Roberts (1982), Watson (2001) and Terkel (1974). Terkel (1974) states that most managers are fearful and have insecurities, also describes the corporate world as a jungle, although Watson (2001) believes that confidence is the key to superb management, whilst Knights and Roberts (1982) thrive off the idea of power. I conclude by arguing that although ‘planning, organizing, leading and controlling’ are the main functions of management they aren’t solely what management is about, for these functions to be demonstrated and used correctly they rely heavily upon other aspects of the manager themselves.
ORGANISING
According to Knights and Roberts (1982, p.47) ‘power is typically treated as if it were an individual possession rather than a relationship between people’, unless ‘authoritative’ power is present which is when a person voluntarily accepts the advice and discretion of others. Even then a relationship isn’t really conceived , more so forced upon, for organising to be simple relationships must be ‘structured in a way that allows the organisations members to work together to achieve goals’ (Waddell, Jones & George 2011, p. 10). Although this can be difficult when ‘gossip and rumor are always prevalent in a corporation’ Terkel, (1974, p.336), because organisational members can be reluctant to work together as a team in fear of their co -workers getting a promotion over them or even putting them out of a job, as Knights