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Running head: FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT

Functions of Management
Holli showers
University of Phoenix
MNG
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Lane Roos
July 14, 2009

Functions of Management Ever wonder what skills it takes to be a successful supervisor in a small or large corporation? There is a strategy to the success of these supervisors. In this paper, I am going to identify the skills and strategy to such success, by identifying and defining the four functions of management; planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. I am also going to explain how I implement them into my company and my office, and how these four functions help me to be successful at my job. H&R Block’s office managers need to follow and implement these four management functions in everything they do, to insure success in their offices. Take the marketing aspect of the job, for example. Without implementing these functions, there would be little success. Planning is used to specify the goals to be achieved, and deciding in advance the appropriate actions needed to achieve those goals. You use planning to analyze current situations, anticipate the future, determine objectives, and decide which activities are needed to reach company goals. When marketing for H&R Block, this management function helps to get ideas on the way to the implementation stage. Marketing takes time and detailed planning in order to be successful, and meet set goals. When planning, managers need to make specific goals on the people and communities you are trying to reach, and coming up with reasonable ways to reach them. Goals and objectives are then made, on how specifically we are going to go about reaching these people and communities. We then evaluate the resources we have available to us to achieve these goals. In this case, flyers and coupons and marketing hours are some examples of the resources we have.