Question

The four management functions are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Think of a job you have now or one you have had in the past. List the managerial activities you have done or observed. If you have never had a paid job, remember that it takes management skills to manage a home, run a baseball team, and lead a church group. Classify each activity of your job according to whether it involved planning, organizing, leading, or controlling - there should be activities under each of the four functions of management

Answer 1

Planning- A few years back I had a data entry job. I would be given around 200 patient forms in image format. I would need to fill the details in the form to a word format. The job required me to plan each of my day around giving at least 9 hours to the job per day. I usually planned in such a way that I got 2 breaks at least in between.

Organizing and leading- The same job also involved me training new recruits. I used to organize the training sessions for them, which included creating content for training and giving the training, and will also lead them for the first month to make sure that they were learning and doing their job correctly.

Controlling- At the same job, the requirement of forms to be filled was almost infinite. We could expand as much as we wanted, almost. I was given control of the office space capacity, per person target per day and the quality control. I had to control how many people we hired because there was limited office space and computers. I also had quality control and had to make sure that the submitted forms were correct.