The Four Functions of Management
Management is the process of working with other and capital to achieve organizational goals. It is also known as creative problem solving. Defined by Webster’s Online Dictionary as: the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business one, through the deployment and manipulation of resources: human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). Webster’s Online Dictionary April 1, 2007.
The creative problem solving is accomplished through the four functions of Management: Planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The intended outcome is using the organizational resources in such a way to achieve its mission and goals.
What a manager does and how it is done can be categorized by the four functions of management, through these functions managers can be catalysts for change or by definition change agents- “people who act as catalysts and manage the change process” robbins, Bergman, Stagg and......
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