Army Management
Management and the Army
Mark Bietsch
MGT330: Management for Organizations (BAC1250A)
Professor Moore
28 July 2013
Management and the Army
The Army has a very well organized structure that has many different elements within its structure. The Army uses many different regulations that cover the way it runs its organization to ensure it maintains and improves the way it is managed. The Army uses the Human Resources Command Center (HRC) which is to execute career management, sustainment, distribution, and transitions of personnel in order to ensure optimal Army personnel readiness (https://www.hrc.army.mil/STAFF/HRC%20Mission%20and%20Vision). This allows leaders to development, and strengthens the way the Army works. Management is a very important because it allows an organization to be successful, agile and versatile. The purpose of the Total Army Quality Management is to establish procedures, policy, and responsibility. It is the regulation the Army uses to emphasize commitment to performance excellence through leadership and vision, mission and customer focus, employee empowerment, and continuous improvements (Department of the Army, 2002, p. 5). Leadership is really important in the military. Leadership means influencing behaviors in an organization (Reilly, Minnick, & Baack, 2011). In the Army it is very important that a leader is able to influence a person to do a job. As a leader we know we will never have someone do something we have not already done ourselves. Military leaders have to lead from the front because without direction some Soldiers would be lost. Not every management theory will have an application in the Army. However, the Army and private companies are both dependent upon good management, efficient resource management, and quality personnel for continued existence. Every soldier is critical to mission success or failure. Accountability to job accomplishment is at the forefront of leadership. Army leaders need to take
Mark Bietsch
MGT330: Management for Organizations (BAC1250A)
Professor Moore
28 July 2013
Management and the Army
The Army has a very well organized structure that has many different elements within its structure. The Army uses many different regulations that cover the way it runs its organization to ensure it maintains and improves the way it is managed. The Army uses the Human Resources Command Center (HRC) which is to execute career management, sustainment, distribution, and transitions of personnel in order to ensure optimal Army personnel readiness (https://www.hrc.army.mil/STAFF/HRC%20Mission%20and%20Vision). This allows leaders to development, and strengthens the way the Army works. Management is a very important because it allows an organization to be successful, agile and versatile. The purpose of the Total Army Quality Management is to establish procedures, policy, and responsibility. It is the regulation the Army uses to emphasize commitment to performance excellence through leadership and vision, mission and customer focus, employee empowerment, and continuous improvements (Department of the Army, 2002, p. 5). Leadership is really important in the military. Leadership means influencing behaviors in an organization (Reilly, Minnick, & Baack, 2011). In the Army it is very important that a leader is able to influence a person to do a job. As a leader we know we will never have someone do something we have not already done ourselves. Military leaders have to lead from the front because without direction some Soldiers would be lost. Not every management theory will have an application in the Army. However, the Army and private companies are both dependent upon good management, efficient resource management, and quality personnel for continued existence. Every soldier is critical to mission success or failure. Accountability to job accomplishment is at the forefront of leadership. Army leaders need to take
References: Headquarters Department of the Army. (2002). Total Army Quality Management. (Army Regulation 5-1). Washington, DC. Reilly, M., Minnick, C., & Baack, D. (2011). The five functions of effective management. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUMGT330.11.1 Center for Army Lessons Learned. (2012). Mission. Retrieved January 27, 2013, from http://call.army.mil/mission.asp