Four Functions Of Management

The Four Functions of Management

Management is the process of working with other and capital to achieve organizational goals. Also management is defining as creative problem solving. This creative problem solving is accomplished through the four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The intended result is the use of an organization's resources in a way that finish its mission and objectives. Every good manager, supervisor or leader does those tings both effectively and efficiently.

At the present time in MEDDAC-Japan the organization in which I am employ, is working to reorganize some the way they offers services to the military community. Very interesting it is to see as the four functions of management in action.

In the business world today, the great executives not only adapt to changing conditions but also apply fanatically, rigorously, consistently and with discipline the fundamental management principles. These fundamentals include the four traditional functions of management. They remain as relevant as ever, and they still provide the fundamentals that are needed in star ups as much as in established corporations.

Management success is expanding through accomplishment of mission and objectives of the organization. Managers and leaders fail when they do not achieve mission and objectives established. Success and failure are attached in a straight line to the reasons for being in business, mission and objectives. On the other hand, accomplishing mission and objectives is not enough. Success requires equally effectiveness and efficiency. Managers, leaders and supervisor who achieve their mission and objectives are believed to be effective. Efficiency describes the connection between the amount of resources used (the input) and the amount to which objectives were accomplished (the output). However, management is complete only if the manager or team leader has become familiar with the specific situation in which he or she can develop and applied each one of the four function of management.

The Functions

Planning

Planning is specifying the objective to be achieved and deciding in advance the correct action needed for the team or company to achieve those goals. Also is concerned with the future impact of today's decisions. Planning is a fundamental function of management from which the other three stem. The need for planning is frequently evident after the fact. Organizing, leading and controlling functions branch from the planning function. The manager or leader is prepared to organize and lead only after every objective and every plan to reach the goals are in position. Planning is important at all levels of management.

As part of the re-organization they were established some objectives and goals. Planning was a fundamental function to be able to reach the goal. Some of the objectives and goals are improve the accuracy of patient identification, improve the safety of using medication and reduce the time in every medical transportation and EMS call. Analyzing the information recompiled in the last 3 years and studying many situations we could establish a plan of action where we can interact better with the hospitals in Japan.

Organizing

Organizing is assembling and coordinating the human, financial, physical, informational, and other resources needed to achieve goals. Also is establishing the internal organizational structure of the business. The focus is on division, coordination, and control of tasks and the flow of information inside the organization. Managers, leader and supervisors hand out responsibility and authority to there subordinate in this function of management. Organizing activities include:

1. attracting people to the organization

2. specifying job responsibilities

3. assemblage jobs into work units

4. collect and distribute resources

5. creating conditions so that people and thing work together

Each one of these activities are focus on make the team or organization achieve maximum success.

Now and in the future a new forms of organizing and viewing their people as perhaps their most valuable resources. This to build organizations flexible and adaptive to the customer needs.

Organizing is particularly important in family businesses where each family member has multiple roles: family, business and personal. Confusion among these roles complicates the decisions to take.

Leading

Leading is motivating, inspired and encourage people or subordinates to be high performers. Also leading is directing and influencing people's behavior all the way through motivation, communication, group dynamics, leadership and discipline. The purpose of leading is to guide the behavior of all human resources and employees to achieve the organization's mission and objectives at the same time as all together helping to achieve their own career goals. Today managers must be good at mobilizing people to contribute with their ideas.

The leading function gives the manager an active rather than a passive role in worker performance, behavior and accomplishments. Managers achieve their objectives all the way through there people or workers. This function gives managers and supervisors a second responsibility: helping people or workers in the organization complete and achieves their individual career goals. Helping people in the organization with career planning and professional development is a vital part of the leading function and also a great way to motivate the subordinates.

Controlling

Controlling is the management function of monitoring progress and making needed changes. Controlling is a process of establishing performance standards based on the organization objectives, evaluating and reporting actual performance, comparing the two, and taking corrective or preventive action as necessary. This function makes sure that goals are met. All the successful organizations, not important the size or how big they are pay close attention to the controlling function.

In these moments we are learning of our errors and modifying part of the system of medical transportation and patient's identification where some errors reduced the effectiveness of the organization. The four functions of management are not part of a process where we cannot go back and fixed. Many times when we find an error in the system or the service that we lend, we return to the base and we