This document discusses the key functions of management. It describes management as a social, continuous, universal, and interrelated process. The main functions of management are identified as planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, and controlling. Planning involves setting objectives and developing strategies to achieve goals. Organizing requires grouping and assigning work, and delegating authority and responsibility. Staffing deals with acquiring and maintaining qualified human resources. Directing functions include leadership, communication, motivation, and supervision of employees. Coordinating arranges collective efforts to achieve unity of action. Controlling monitors performance and ensures plans are followed, making corrections if needed.

1. Engineering Economics And Management
ENGINEERING COLLEGE.
TUWA
Functions of Management
Sr.no Name En.No
 1. Shaikh Mohsin R. 140550119091
 2. Patel Rohan G. 150553119023
 3. Shaikh Shahil F. 150553119031
 4. Vahora Rohan A. 150553119036

2. Features of Management Process
• Management process is characterized by
the following features:
• Social Process
• Continuous Process
• Universal
• Interrelated
• Composite

3. Social Process
The entire management process is
regarded as a social process as the
success of all organizational efforts
depends upon the willing co-operation of
people

4. Continuous Process
• The process of management is on going
and continuous. Managers continuously
take up one or the other function.
Management cycle is repeated over and
over again.

5. Universal
• Management functions are universal in
the sense that a manager has to perform
them irrespective of the size and nature of
the organization. Each manger performs
the same functions regardless of his rank
or position in the organization.

6. Interrelated
 Managerial functions are contained within
each other. The performance of the next
function does not start only when the
earlier function is finished. Various
functions are taken together.

7. CLASSIFICATION OF MANAGEMENT
FUNCTIONS
Henry Fayol, the pioneer of management process
approach gave
 Planning
 Organizing
 Commanding
 Co-coordinating and
 Controlling as functions of management.

8. Luther Gullick used the word
POSDCORB to describe functions such as
Planning (P), Organizing (O), Staffing (S),
directing (D) , controlling (CO), reporting ®
and budgeting (B), Koontz and O Donnel
adopted managerial functions as planning,
organizing, staffing, directing and controlling.
Earnest dale has included
innovation and representation to the earlier
mentioned functions

9. 1. Planning 2. Organizing
3. Staffing 4. Directing
(a) Leadership (b) Communication
(c) Motivation (d) Supervision
5. Co-coordinating 6. Controlling

10. PLANNING
Planning is a basic managerial
function,. Planning helps in defining the
course of action to be followed for
achieving various organizational
objectives. It is a decision in advance,
what to do, when to do, how to do and who
will do a particular task. Planning is a
process which involves thinking before
doing.

11. Planning is a process of looking ahead.
The primary object of planning is to achieve
better results. It involves the selection of
organizational objectives and developing
polices procedures, programmes, budgets and
strategies. Planning is a continuous process
that takes place at all levels of management.

12. The process of planning involves
• Gathering Information
• Laying down objectives
• Developing Planning premises
• Examining alternative courses of action
• Evaluation of action patterns
• Reviewing limitations
• Implementation of planning

13. ORGANISZING
Every business enterprises needs the services of
a number of persons to look after its different
aspects. The management sets up the
objectives or goals to be achieved by its
personnel. The energy of every individual is
channelized to achieve the enterprise objectives.
The function of organizing is to arrange, guide
coordinating, direct and control the activities of
other factors of production, Viz, men, material,
money and machines so as to accomplish the
objectives of the enterprise,.

14. Louis A. Allen describes organization as the
process of identifying and grouping work to be
performed, defining and delegating
responsibility and authority and establishing
relationships for the purpose of enabling
people to work most effectively together in
accomplishing objectives

15. PROCESS OF ORGANISATION
INVOLVES
 To identifying the work to be performed
 To classify or group the work
 To assign these groups of activities or
work to individuals
 To delegate authority and fix responsibility
 To Co-ordinate these authority-
responsibility relationships of various
activities.

16. Though they are many types of
organizations but generally three types
of organizations are in vogue:
1.Line Organization
2.Functional Organization and
3.Line and staff organization.

17. STAFFING
The function involves manning the
positions created by organization process.
It is concerned with human resources of
an organization.
In the words of Koontz and O Donnel,
Staffing is filling, keeping filled positions in
the organization structure through defining
work-force requirements, appraising,
selecting compensating training

18. STAFFING CONSISTING OF:
• Manpower planning i.e.., assessing
manpower requirements in terms of
quantity and quality
• Recruitment, selection and training
• Placement of man power
• Development, promotion, transfer and
appraisal
• Determination of employee remuneration.

19. MAIN ACTIVITES INVOLVED IN
DIRECTING:
• Leadership
• Communication
• Motivation and
• Supervision

20. LEADERSHIP
• A manager has to issue orders and instructions
and guide and counsel his subordinated in their
work with a view to improve their perform mace
and achieve enterprise objectives.
• Leadership is the ability to build up confidence
and zeal among people and to create an urge in
them, to be led. To be successful leader, a
manager must possess the qualities of foresight,
drive initiative, self confidence and personal
integrity.

21. COMMUNICATION
Communication constitutes a very important function of management.
It is said to be the number one problem of management today. It is an
established fact that managers spend 75 to 90 per cent of their
working time in communicating with others
Thus, communicating means sharing of ideas in common. The essence
of communicating is getting the receiver and they sender turned
together for a particular message. It refers to the exchange of ideas
feelings, emotions and knowledge and information between two or
more persons. Nothing happens in management till communication
takes place.

22. MOTIVATION
The term motivation is derived from the word’
motive’ which means a need, or an emotion that
prompts an individual into action motivation is the
psychological process of creating urge on the
subordinates to do certain things or behave in the
desire manner. It is a very important function of
management. The importance of motivation can be
realized from the fact that performance of a worker
depends upon his ability and the motivation.

23. SUPERVISION
Supervision is another element of directing function
of management. After issuing instructions, the
manager or the supervisor of management has to
see that all given instructions are carried out. This is
the aim of supervision. Supervision refers to the job
of overseeing subordinates at work to ensure
maximum utilization of resources to get the required
and directed work done and to correct the
subordinates whenever they go wrong.

24. Coordination creates a team spirit
and helps in achieving goals through
collective efforts. It is the orderly
arrangement of group effort to
provide unity of action in the pursuit
of common objectives.

25. CONTROLLING
Controlling can be defined as “determining what is
being accomplished that is evaluating the
performance, if necessary, applying corrective
measures so that the performances take place
according to plans.
Control is essential for achieving objectives of an
enterprise. The planning of various activities does not
ensure automatic implementation of policies. Control
is the process which enables management to get its
policies implemented and take corrective actions if
performance is not according to the pre-determined
standards.

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