5 Functions of Management

Explore the five functions of management, planning, staffing, organizing, directing, and controlling, and how Perseus Inc. managers apply them to set objectives, allocate resources, and supervise performance.

explore the core functions of management—planning, staffing, organizing, directing, and controlling—and learn how these key functions shape effective management.

Look ahead and chalk out future courses of action, determining when, how, and who will perform each task to balance resources.

Learn to establish objectives and planning promises, choose an alternative course of action, formulate derivative plans, secure cooperation, and follow up with appraisal in the planning function.

Learn the characteristics of planning as a goal oriented, looking ahead, and continuous process that guides decision making, allocates resources, and lays the foundation for all management functions.

Explain how staffing helps managers fill roles by recruitment, selection, placement, training and development, and remuneration, ensuring the right people at the right jobs.

Plan the manpower inventory to forecast future needs. Recruit, select, orientation and placement, training and development, remuneration, performance evaluation, promotion and transfer.

Analyze the current manpower inventory, forecast future needs, and develop employment and training programs using a systems approach to manpower planning, including recruitment, selection, and placement.

Explain the employee selection process from preliminary interviews to screening, application banks, written tests, employment interviews, medical exams, appointment letters, and finally orientation and placement.

Explore on-the-job and off-the-job training methods, including job rotation, coaching, vestibule training, workshops and seminars, to develop employees through learning by doing for new roles and career growth.

Explore time rate and piece rate remuneration, their effects on output, quality, morale, supervision, and costs, and examine how organizing coordinates resources to achieve results.

Identify activities, group them into departments, classify authority, and establish a clear hierarchy to enable coordination, specialization, well-defined jobs, and growth through organized structure.

Explain the principles of organizing, including specialization, functional definition, span of control, scalar chain (scala chain), and unity of command, to help managers decide and organize effectively.

Drive effective management by using controlling to verify conformity with plans and standards, identify deviations, and take corrective actions to achieve planned goals.

Explore the steps of the controlling process as a management function: establish standards, measure performance, compare with targets, analyze deviations, take remedial actions, and follow up.

Explore the directing function as the heart of management, guiding, inspiring, and supervising workers to achieve goals, drawing on human factors, continuous activity, and its motivational, integrative, and resource-utilization benefits.