Managerial Functions

Managerial Functions: General administrative duties that need to be carried out in virtually all productive organizations to achieve desired outcomes.

Managerial Skills: Specific observable behaviors that effective managers exhibit

Managerial Facts of Life.

Wilson’s Managerial Skills

 

 

Identifiable Functions in the Management Process

 

Managerial Functions

Planning: Formulating plans and setting objectives to provide direction for future courses of action by the organization

Decision Making: Choosing among the alternative courses of action

Organizing: Deciding on the human resources structure of the organization

Staffing: Recruiting, training, and developing people who can contribute to the organized effort

Communicating: Providing information, direction, and feedback

Motivating: Providing meaningful work and valued rewards to individuals pursuing collective objectives

Leading: Serving as role models and adapting management styles as the situation demands

Controlling: Comparing desired results with actual results and taking corrective action as needed