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Understanding the Directing Process

Directing involves issuing orders, guiding subordinates, assigning jobs, motivating employees, and communicating information to help achieve organizational goals. It is a complex process of encouraging effective and efficient work through activities like supervising, instructing, influencing, and leading people. As a pervasive function, directing links planning and organizing to staffing and is used by managers at all levels to get work done and ensure goals are met through influencing subordinates. It is a dynamic and continuous process that must change as plans change.

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Understanding the Directing Process

Directing involves issuing orders, guiding subordinates, assigning jobs, motivating employees, and communicating information to help achieve organizational goals. It is a complex process of encouraging effective and efficient work through activities like supervising, instructing, influencing, and leading people. As a pervasive function, directing links planning and organizing to staffing and is used by managers at all levels to get work done and ensure goals are met through influencing subordinates. It is a dynamic and continuous process that must change as plans change.

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What is Directing

Directing is a process of telling a person what to do .It means1) Issuing orders & instructions by a superior to his/her subordinate (commanding) 2) Guiding & supervising subordinates to ensure that the work is carried out as planned (Supervision) 3) Assigning jobs to subordinates & guiding, advising & helping them to do the jobs effectively ( leadership) 4) Inspiring the subordinates to take efforts to achieve organizational goals, by providing good working environment & job satisfaction ( motivation ) 5) By transferring information, idea, understanding subordinates & rectifying errors in time, based on feedback information (communication)
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Meaning & Definition


It includes the process of motivating subordinates. It is a complex function that includes all those activities which are designed to encourage subordinates to work effectively & efficiently. Koontz

Features of Directing
1) Deals with people: Direction is a process of supervising, Instructing, influencing, motivating, leading,& Communicating People at work 2) Seeks Performance: Managers must be able to make things Happen 3) Provide a link- Directing function link between different functions in an organization such as planning, organizing, staffing & helps in matching individual goals with organizational goals by influencing, motivating & leading.

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Pervasive- Directing is a common activity of all managers at levels of an organization. Every manager has to direct his subordinates to get things done & achieve the desired results. The amount of time spent by managers in directing decreases at higher levels of management
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Dynamic & continuous- Directing is continues activity. It is a dynamic function which means the techniques of directing has to change whenever plans change.

Significance of directing function


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It is a implementation of management & is called" management-in-action . Directing initiates action Directing makes things to happen Achieves coordination & integration of activities Motivates people Facilitates change Attains balance & stability

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