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The Basic Functions of Management

Every day, managers tackle difficult problems, guide organizations towards success, and achieve impressive results. Good management is essential for any organization to thrive. Peter Drucker, a prominent management theorist, identified five key tasks that managers perform: setting goals, organizing activities, motivating and communicating, measuring performance, and developing people.

These five tasks fall into four core management functions: planning (setting goals and deciding activities), organizing (structuring activities and people), leading (motivating, communicating with, and developing people), and controlling (setting targets and measuring performance).

Regardless of their specific role, managers perform numerous and varied tasks, all of which can be categorized within these four fundamental functions.

These functions apply to all managers, from top executives like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Alan Mulally at Ford, to local restaurant managers, airport security team leaders, and sales and marketing directors. As Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author, puts it: "Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."

The Basic Functions
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The activities outlined in Exhibit 1.2 fall into four fundamental management func-
tions: planning (setting goals and deciding activities), organizing (organizing activities and
people), leading (motivating, communicating with, and developing people), and control-
ling (establishing targets and measuring performance). Depending on their job situation,
managers perform numerous and varied tasks, but they all can be categorized within these
four primary functions.
E X H I B I T 1 . 2 What Do Managers Do?
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1 . Set Objectives
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Recognize the value o f
employees and develop
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and select people t o
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4 . Measure
Set targets and
standards; appraise
performance
3 Motivate and Communicate
Create teamwork via
decisions o n pay,
promotions, etc., and
through communication
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SOURCE: Based on "What Do Managers Do?" The Wall Street Journal Online, http://guides.wsj.com/management/developing-a
-leadership-style/what-do-managers-do/ (accessed August 1, 2010), article adapted from Alan Murray, The Wal Street Journal
Essential Guide to Management (New York: Harper Business, 2010)