Management and its Four Functions

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This paper discusses the four traditional roles of management - those of planning, controlling, leading and organizing. It examines these four managerial roles within the context of operations management theory. The paper then combines together these management topics and presents an overview of the managerial function within the context of corporate operations theory.

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Abstract
Managerial Functions
Operations Management Theory
Managerial Functions and Management

From the Paper:

"Coordinating (controlling). Coordinating ensures that results vector with the planned outcomes of activities undertaken within the other functional areas. Sims notes that this particular functional area of management involves a high degree of technical complexity and that managers are now required to either attain this skill level or hire for it (2002, p.11). Of course, the preference is to attain the technical skill-sets necessary to accomplish the functional responsibilities. Coordinating, or controlling as it is also referred to, involves some revisionist capacity since a manager must also recognize during the process of managing when plans and objectives need adjustment, change, or complete removal."

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