Functions of Management

Functions of Management

In current business practices is often ignored the importance of having a good leader. The writer, having served in the U.S. Marine Corps, was introduced into a way of leading man into combat scenarios. While serving in the military, the writer began like everyone else, as a follower. With the day-to-day challenges, the leadership portrayed by the higher-ranking individuals had become an example to live by. Marine Non-Commission Officers (NCO’s) are feared throughout the world because of their devotion for their unit, country, and Core. The writer has seen the difference between leadership styles in and out of the military.

The writer will briefly describe the Four Functions of Management and describe how it relates to the way that business are conducted within his organization that he works for.

The Four Functions of Management

The four functions of management are: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (Bateman, 2007). Planning, according to Bateman, is specifying the goals to achieve and deciding in advance the appropriate actions needed to achieve a goal. In the Marines, the writer witnessed how meetings were usually held in confidential areas and only certain individuals were allowed to attend and find out what the plan of execution would be. Marines were usually told of any plans, however, there were things that simple individuals were not told until the leader would give up the order of execution.

Public Storage

The writer of this paper works Public Storage. In the current employment the planning stage is taken seriously and everyone is taken into account. The District manager sets up a timeframe with tasks that need to be followed in order to complete the main objective, which is to rent storage spaces. The district manager, plans for weeks in advance and the manager is told in advance of the tasks that needs to be completed by a certain time frame.

Organizing is the assembling and coordination of human, financial, physical informational, and other resources to achieve goal (Bateman, 2007). Organizing is considered of being very important for the positive production of the company. In the Organizing stage, is the manager makes sure that his or her employees are ready to work and therefore, not wasting any valuable time. A good manager needs to have good organizational skills or he or she would not be around more often. In Public Storage Inc., being able to organized properly is very important because it helps control the resources and thus maximizes the output of the company.

A good manager has good leading skills. Leading requires managers of boosting the morale of its employees in order to make them obtain the ultimate goal of accomplishing the task. In Public Storage, the writer has the pleasure to work for a manager who is known for having good leading skills. The manager follows up day-to-day operations