Management 1

Management 1 1. Evaluate the classic management functions and their relationship to each other, including the extent to which they may or may not be interrelated. 2. For each classic management function, apply one specific example, and explain in detail how this function, in this specific instance, relates to one or more of the other functions. 3. Analyze the differences that may be encountered in addressing each function at different management levels; that is: Are there differences in the emphasis on each function for the supervisor or first-line manager as compared with the middle manager? Or for the middle manager as compared with the chief executive officer? 4. Identify management functions of planning, organizing, and directing: * Explore this old expression: “If we fail to plan, we plan to fail.” * Provide an example for each: planning, organizing, and directing that the department manager may employ multiple times in a normal workday? * What management functions are most closely associated with teaching, guiding, and motivating workers? Explain your answer.
Paper must include a minimum of 2-3 scholarly references, to include peer reviewed journal articles, books, magazines, or newspapers. Wikipedia is not an accepted reference. At least 1 of your sources must be from the ProQuest database in the Ashford Library, and only valid websites that
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.
Since organizations can be viewed as systems,