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Management of people or resources is a complex undertaking with multiple facets . It exists at the lowest level of an organization up to the top most strategic positions . It is a brood term which encompasses almost all the functions of a business at every level of hierarchy . It can be applied to various fields of study and to everything that needs to be planned , organized , lead or controlled

Planning , controlling , leading and controlling (along with coordinating are termed as the main functions of management . These are not however all that management (or

managers ) are limited to . Their scope is limitless and varies according to what is required . Most of managerial tasks however can be divided into the four aforementioned processes

Planning is a process of taking into account various variables and arriving at a plan , or step by step process through which to achieve a predetermined goal . As opposed to strategic management , planning doe have a goal at the end . The issue is how to achieve it in the best manner possible and that is where management steps in . planning however is not limited to just thinking up of a process to go about achieving goals but implementing them also is part of the process . Hence the implement ability of a plan has to be kept in mind as well when thinking of one . The planning process starts off by identifying a problem e .g production goals are not being met as per the s of the upper management . The reasons why they are not being met need to be sought and eradicated . The reasons could range from low employee morale to lack of resources . Once the problem is identified , a solution needs to be devised to do away with it and in to do so , a plan is needed . If the problem is lack of resources , then a plan needs to be put into place to procure more raw materials for the whole process within the given resources like transport vehicles , budget constraints etc . and the plan should be such that it constantly replenishes the raw material supply so that the same problem isn 't caused in the future either

Organizing is to allocate and place resources in a set manner . It entails setting standards , benchmarks etc . and then arranging resources accordingly so as to assist the overall management function . A hierarchy in a firm too is an organization but of people . By doing so , people are managed in a proper manner , following a chain of command according to a set standard . Organization in its simplest form for a production line manager could be thought of as arranging materials in the inventory so as to make them available easily when needed . To avoid confusion , these materials be they tools or raw materials can be kept in a pre arranged manner and ever one using them should be encouraged to follow the same rules of sorting them . This will reduce the time it takes to assemble a product from...