The presentation covers the functions of management in a very brief manner & is for education purpose only.

1. Functions of Management

2. MANAGEMENT

3. Management
Meaning- Management is the art of
getting thing done by a group of people
with the effective utilization of available
resources.

4. Definitions
According to HENRY FAYOL- “To manage
is to forecast and plan to organise,to
compound to coordinate and to
control.”
Louis Allan “Management is what a
manager does.”

5. Functions of management
 1. Planning
 2. Organizing
 3. Staffing
 4. Directing
 5. Coordinating
 6. Controlling

6. Planning
 It’s the primary function of the
management. Nothing can be performed
without planning.
 In short planning refers to deciding in
advance that which will be done in the near
future.

7. Organizing
 Organizing is the distribution of work in
GroupWise for effective performance.
 Organizing all facilities which are necessary
to create some more departments under
different managers is also a part of
organizing.

8. Staffing
 Staffing function comprises the activities of
the selection and placement of competent
person.
 In other words staffing refers to the
placement of right person to the right job.

9. Directing
 The actual performance of works starts with the
function of directing,planning,organising and
staffing function are concerned with the
preliminary work for the achievement of
organizational objectives.
 Direction includes guidence,supervision and
motivation of employees.

10. Co-ordinating
All the activies are divided in an organized
way.
The difficulty of co-ordination is increased
with the increasing of the size of the
organisation

11. Controlling
 Controlling function ensures that the achieved
objectives conformed to the preplanned
objective.
 A good system of control has the characteristics
of economy ,flexibility, understanding and
accuracy to the organizational needs.