Lesson 1.
Management and Its
Functions
Organization and Management
General Academic Strand | Accountancy, Business, and Management
All of us have our own
experiences with
different managers. They
may be personal
encounters or those we
have seen in movies and
books. Surely, we have
an idea of who managers
are.
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Managers need to
ensure the
multifaceted
welfare of the
unit assigned to
them. They are
the link between
a company and its
consumers.
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Learning
Competency
Discuss the meaning and functions of
management (ABM_AOM11-Ia-b-1).
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Learning
Objectives
● Define the meaning of management.
● Explain the five core principles of
management (planning, organizing,
staffing, leading, and controlling) and its
functions.
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Observing Managers
Let’s
Connect!
Recall any experience you have had with a
manager. It may be while you were in a
commercial establishment, eating in a food stall,
watching a movie, shopping for some food items
at the grocery, or any activity where you had an
encounter with a manager.
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What was your experience with a
Let’s manager?
Connect!
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From this experience, what are your
Let’s impressions of a manager and management?
Connect!
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Essential
Question
How does an ideal manager manage a team?
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Managers
Managers as Bridge between the Company and
Employees
● Managers connect the employees to the employers
on a large scale.
● They are the ones who bring up the concerns of
every individual or subordinate under their
department or team.
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Managers
Managers as Decision-Makers
Managers see the company
from the top-level perspective
and the perspective of every
employee.
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Managers
Managers are role models and motivators.
● Managers uphold standards that subordinates look
up to.
● They are also responsible, as leaders, to provide
necessary motivation.
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Managers
Effectiveness Efficiency
● Doing the right thing. ● Doing things right.
● Staying focused on the ● Minimum input for
task assigned. maximum output.
● Not necessarily cost
cutting.
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Check Your
Progress
Do managers need to have both effectiveness
and efficiency?
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Functions of Management
There are five main functions of
management, namely planning,
organizing, staffing, leading,
and controlling.
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Functions of Management
Planning
● Planning is usually done at the start of any task or
venture.
● It is preparing for what is going to happen, looking
at all possible scenarios.
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Functions of Management
Planning is done not only at the beginning of a venture.
When a firm has to do any move, especially one with major
implications, they undergo planning. 17
Functions of Management
Organizing
● This is where they design
the organizational
structure.
● It also highlights the
forming of the company’s
chain-of-command and
reporting relationships.
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Functions of Management
Staffing
● Staffing is concerned with the hiring, selection, and
training of individuals.
○ Selection is the process of administering
examinations and conducting interviews of
applicants.
○ Hiring is where applicants are already given job
offers and asked for pre-employment
requirements. 19
Functions of Management
Leading
● Leading is the most
obvious and
eminent managerial
function.
● It is also concerned
with how managers
motivate their
subordinates.
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Check Your
Progress
How important is leadership and motivation in
management?
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Functions of Management
Controlling
Controlling doesn't
necessarily mean that
managers should control
the actions of their
subordinates. It is more of
being a mediator when
problems arise.
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Wrap-
● Management is getting work done through
Up others.
● Management requires skillful and competent
managers who:
○ bridge the head (executives) to the body
(employees);
○ become the primary decision makers; and
○ act as role models and motivators.
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Wrap- ● Managers require a wide array of skill set, but
Up the two most common are effectiveness and
efficiency.
○ Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
○ Efficiency is doing things right.
● Managers have five main functions, namely
planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and
controlling.
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Try This!
True or False. Write true if the statement is
Try This! correct. Otherwise, write false.
1. Management is manipulation only.
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Try This!
True or False. Write true if the statement is
Try This! correct. Otherwise, write false.
2. The process of management is the
responsibility of the managers.
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Try This!
True or False. Write true if the statement is
Try This! correct. Otherwise, write false.
3. Minimum output with maximum input is
the core principle of efficiency.
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Try This!
True or False. Write true if the statement is
Try This! correct. Otherwise, write false.
4. Not going beyond the boundaries of the task
required talks a lot about effectiveness.
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Try This!
True or False. Write true if the statement is
Try This! correct. Otherwise, write false.
5. All managers should be both effective
and efficient.
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Challenge
Yourself
Management is getting work done through
others." With this in mind, how will you
personally define management?
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Bibliography
Daft, Richard L., and Dorothy Marcic. Understanding Management. Mason, OH: Thomson Business and Economics,
2006.
Thomas S. Bateman, Scott Snell, and Robert Konopaske, “Part 1.1 - Managing in a Global World,” in M: Management
(New York, NY.: McGraw-Hill Education, 2020).
Williams, Chuck. MGMT 7 - Principles of Management. Mason, OH: 4 LTR Press, 2014.
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