Section 2
Functions of Managers
By Boundless
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Planning is the most fundamental of the five management functions; without it, none of the other functions can be carried out effectively.
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Managers must organize to see their plans to fruition, thus assigning tasks to individuals and arranging them in an framework that allows decision making.
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The managerial responsibility of staffing is an involved process of hiring, training, compensating, positioning, and assessing team members to enable operational success.
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Certain leadership competencies help people become effective leaders; successful team leaders follow planning and implementation processes.
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Organizations use knowledge management to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable strategy and process.
Controlling is a core managerial function defined by observing and optimizing operational processes.
Customer experience management focuses the operations and processes of a business around the need of the individual customer.