Functions of Management
✏️ In one line
Management is getting work done through people, so goals are reached on time (effectively) and without waste (efficiently).
📖 Story time
- Kabir wants BottleBuddy to sell 1,000 bottles a month. Setting this target is planning.
- He splits the work into making, packing and selling teams. That's organising.
- He hires a designer and a packer. That's staffing.
- He guides and motivates the team every day. That's directing.
- At the month's end he compares actual sales with 1,000. That's controlling.
🎯 Your turn
Match each function of management to what Kabir does.
- Planning
- Organising
- Staffing
- Directing
- Controlling
Drag a card onto a box, or tap a card and then a box.
Nice! Perfect! Planning, organising, staffing, directing, controlling: in that order.
Not quite. Hint: Controlling = checking results against the plan.
Kabir: Kabir's team finished a big order on time, but wasted a lot of steel doing it.
How would you describe the team?
Nice! Right! Reaching the goal on time = effective. Wasting material = not efficient.
Not quite. Hint: Effective is about the goal. Efficient is about waste.
Management is needed only in big companies.
Nice! Correct, false! A small shop, a school, even a family trip needs management.
Not quite. Hint: Does Meera's small shop need planning?
Doing a task with the least cost and waste is called…
Nice! Yes! Efficiency means getting more output from fewer resources.
Not quite. Hint: Think back to the wasted steel.