Function_of_Management

Functions of Management Planning in an organization means developing a goal, specifying ahead of time what actions are require and what course of actions we must take to achieve our final goals or objective. We must analyze our current situations and decide what course of action to take. Once we are in the planning mode, it is like having to answer each question of what is going to happen every time we complete a step, and to figure out what will happen in our next step. We must analyze and anticipate setbacks, obstructions, and we must have a solutions just incase they are encounter. Planning is one of the most important management function used in our organization. We have meetings every week, were we discuss short and long term planning goals. In this paper we will only speak of our deploying forces. We cover in our planning every aspects required in to support our deploying forces in the states and overseas. We have different department planning for every movement that they do from the moment they mobilized to active duty, until they get demobilized, and send back home. From the moment they arrive we start preparing them physically and mentally, this will help them face any situation and achieve the organizations goal. We must analyze there technical and tactical needs, then we plan for there training, schools, etc.. Once all there training is complete they are ready to deployed overseas. In the logistics department we have to plan for all there logistical needs, from uniforms to weapons, every piece of equipment needed that will facilitate them to do the job efficiently and effectively. This will also require us to analyze our current on hand inventory and funding. Do we have enough gear on hand' and Do we have the funding available to purchase our shortages'. We have a pre-printed matrix that guides and helps us check everything that they will need to get them all the way through there training, deployment, and avoid us missing something important. Organizing is assembling two or more responsible party's or departments that has specific duties and responsibilities to achieve organizational goals. They are the eyes and subject matter experts that will decide what is the most efficient and effective way to achieve the organizational goals and objectives. Departmentalization responsibilities will be develop, working groups will be assigned, responsibilities will be issue, manpower will be increase, marshaling and allocating resources will be increase, and a safe work environment will be create to maintain a unity and achieve their maximum. In our organization, to support our employees and deploying personnel, we have organize groups who are responsible to support that they will be provide. We will have to organize groups who are responsible for different functions, and were we meet to accomplish our objective. Some time when groups are big, we will have to organize them in groups and send them to different locations to maximize time and not have them around wasting time. They will all be employ in an efficient way. Shona Brown of Google makes decisions about organizing. Says, "The company's goal is to determine precisely the amount of management it needs-and then use a little bit less" (Bate& Snell, 2009, p. 20). I seen this happen much, we plan for a lot and they will give us a little bit. Leading is the art and ability that specific supervisors and managers have in an organization to influence personnel, groups, or organizations to achieve there main goal. There two types of leaders; define or formal leaders and the one that act as leader in an informal manner. Leading will required that energetic leaders be able to work side-by- side with there subordinates, they also know peoples weaknesses, strengths and how to use them to maximum their strength. At the same time they must lead by example. "Ray Ozzie, leads by example and by communicating with others. He'll have a cup of coffee with the lower-level programmers about security strategies-after all, he was once a programmer himself-and will contribute some sophisticated ideas" (Bate & Snell, 2009, p. 21). In our organization we have different types of leadership, we have staff, deploy forces, and department head leader. They all have different leadership functions and styles. To train and prepare our personnel for deployments, we have the professional leadership experience available that will school, trained, coach and mentor all the deploying personnel and they do there well. We have ex-military professional service members and civilian contractors, responsible for providing there teaching and training assign to us, they will prepare them well. We have great leadership to included the our staff personnel. Controlling sequential actions that manager have to ensure that all the organizational resources are being used as plan and that the organization is meeting there goal in a safe-way. The manager will try to ensure that all objective are on schedule and avoid breakdowns. He can make effective use of feedback and take corrective action when necessary, when there has been a failure to achieve the performance standard. we have a lot of important project that has to be control in different locations. We have sufficient people who has the experience and authority to ensure the organizational goal are meet in an effective and efficient way. But like in all organization, there is always one personnel who oversee all project and personnel, he is the final authority and is responsible to make sure the organizational goals are achieved. This person oversee all department and answers to the boss. If we fail he will fail. Reference Bateman, T. S., & Snell, S. A. (2009). Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World (8th ed.). , : ELM Street Publishing. (Bateman & Snell, 2009, p. 20-21). Montana, P. L., & Charnov, B. H. (2008). Management (4th ed.). Hauppauge, NY: Barron's. (Montana & Charnov, 2008, p. 1-2,6,119-122,183-189).