1. Faraha Lugman
MA-42
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2. OVERVIEW
• What is management?
• Importance of management
• Levels of management
• 5 main function of management
– Planning
– Organizing
– Staffing
– Directing
– Controlling
• Functions of management discovered by
– Henry Fayol
– Lyndall Urwick
– Luther Gullick
– Koontz and O'Donnell
– Earnest dale
• conclusion
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3. What is Management?
• It is the art of getting things done through
others
• Control the functions of management to
achieve organizational goals
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4. Importance of Management
• Improves relations
• Encourages team work
• Encourage innovations
• Motivates employee
• Optimum use of resources
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5. Levels of Management
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TOP LEVEL
MIDDLE LEVEL
LOWER LEVEL

6. 5 MAIN functions of management
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Planning
Controlling
Directing
Organizing
Staffing

7. Planning
• Planning is deciding in advance what is to be done in
the future
• “According to koontz and O „Donnell defines
planning is deciding in advance what to do, how to do
it, when to do it and who is to do it. Planning bridges
the gap from where we are to where we want to go. It
makes it possible for things to occur which would not
otherwise happen”
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8. Organizing
• It is the process of identifying & grouping works
• Defining & delegating responsibility
• Authority & establishing relationships
• Helps to work efficiently
• According to Henri Fayol “To organize a business
means to provide it with everything useful to its
functioning-raw materials, tools, capital and
personnel”
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9. Staffing
• Ensuring of the right person for the right job at the right time
• According to koontz and O Donnel “The managerial functions
of staffing involves manning the organizational structure
through proper and effective selection, appraisal and
development of personnel to fill the roles designed in to the
structure.
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10. Directing
• Giving instructions, guiding, counseling, motivating
and leading staffs
• To achieve organizational goals
• It is concerned with the execution of plans through
organized action.
• It is also known as commanding or actuating
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11. Controlling
• Involves measuring against the established objectives and
goals
• Linked with planning
• “ according to Harold koontz controlling is the measurement
and correction of performance in order to make sure that
enterprise objectives and the plans devised to attain them
are accomplished”
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12. Function of management
discovered by different authors
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13. Henry Fayol
He discovered 5 functions of management
Planning
Organizing
Commanding: supervising subordinates in day to
day task and pushing them towards company goal.
Co ordinating: balancing the procedures and
activities performed by the company
controlling
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14. Lyndall Urwick
He identified 6 function of management
Planning
organizing
Commanding
co ordinating
Controlling
Forecasting :relying on data from the past
and present, and analysis of trends
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15. Luther Gullick
In 1937 he created (posdcorb), the 7 function
of management
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Co ordinating
Reporting : keeping him and his subordinates
informed through records and research etc.
Budgeting :fiscal planning, accounting and
controlling.
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16. Koontz & o Donnel
They discovered 5 function of
management
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Leading :is the same meaning as
directing
Controlling
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17. Earnest dale
According to him functions of managements
are:
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Innovation: making or introducing, such as
new methods and new procedures etc.
Representation: representing his organization
in front of stake holders
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18. conclusion
• All the functions of management are
important in management process
• It is a continues process
• It is group activity
• It is goal oriented
• It is a art
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19. References
• http://managementinnovations.wordpress.co
m/2008/12/03/role-importance-of-
managemen
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing
• http://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-
functions-management-leading-56418.html
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