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Concept and Basic 5 Elements of management functions
Agricultural Extension

Concept and Basic 5 Elements of management functions

Musa June 7, 2018

Contents

  • 1 Concept and Five Major Elements of management functions
    • 1.1 Concept of Management Functions of Organisation
    • 1.2 5 Major Elements of management functions  

Concept and Five Major Elements of management functions

Concept of Management Functions of Organisation

 
Management has been described as a social process involving responsibility for economical and effective planning and regulations of operation of an Enterprise in the fulfilment of given purposes. It is a dynamic process consisting of various elements and activities.
 

5 Major Elements of management functions  

v  According to Henry Fayol, “To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, & to control”.  
 
v  Whereas Luther Gullick has given a keyword ’POSDCORB’ where P stands for Planning, O for Organizing, S for Staffing, D for Directing, Co for Co­ordination, R for reporting & B for Budgeting.  
 
v  But the most widely accepted are functions of management given by KOONTZ and O’DONNEL i.e. Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling. 
 
Activities like, planning, organizing, controlling, coordinating and motivating are described as the fundamental functions of “Process of Management” or “Management Process”. These are the basic five elements of Process of Management Process. 
 
Planning: Planning is the first and foremost function of the management process. It is the thinking process to determine the proposed course of action, what, how, when, where and who has to perform the work or things to be done. 
 
Organization:  Organization  as  a  process  institutes  the  harmonious  adjustment  between  the  different factors of production as land, labor, capital of the business enterprise, so that ultimate goal is  achieved. 
 
Staffing: Staffing is the process of deciding the number and quality of manpower needed by an organization.  To  achieve  its  objectives  efficiently  recruiting,  selecting,  training,  developing  and  appraising the newly recruited as well as the existing staff is the main focus of the unit. It can be seen as the function of ‘Human Resource Manager’ but at a very smaller level. 
 
Directing: Directing is primarily concerned with supervision, regulation, inspiration, inspection and guidance of the activities of the employees in such a manner so as to achieve the pre-determined goals of the organization smoothly. 
 
Control: Control is that process which keeps the whole system in check so that it moves as per the  pre designated parameters or verifying the total movement of the business enterprise as per the plan  and adopting corrective measures thereon for any deviation.  Apart from the above mentioned five elements, other two elements which are adopted by several managers are as follows: 
 
Motivation: Motivation as such, deals with the human part of the system where inspiration to perform as per the objectives of the industrial or business enterprise to get the goals achieved is provided.  A  way  to  encourage  the  human  factor  to  give  their  best  for  the  achievement  of  predetermined goal.  
 
Coordination: Coordination is an understood agreement to achieve predetermined goal of business enterprise utilizing all the factors of production. This lubricates all the concerned activities towards facilitation of work and achieving the desired result. “All these elements will be dealt in with detail in the fore coming posts.”
 

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