Assessing a Situation

There is an obvious dissimilarity between the terms management and leadership,

even though some people use the terms in a similar manner. A role in management in

any business can be summed up by the four duties: planning, organizing,

leading/directing and controlling. Every business, no matter what kind of business it is,

will always have some type of manager/s and they all will perform the same type of

tasks. Just about all managers use the four functions of management to serve as a

significant part of accomplishing management directives. Each part is significant and

one cannot work well without the other parts (Four Functions of Management, 2010).

Planning is the act of management that includes establishing intentions and deciding

a way of proceeding to accomplishing those intentions. This component demands that

managers are conscious of environmental status encountering their business and

predict future situations. It also means that managers have to be good at making

decisions. There are several steps in the process; it starts with environmental scanning

which means planners must be informed of the crucial possibilities confronting their

business in conditions of the economy, their rivals, and their consumers. Therefore, it is

the planner’s job to try to predict conditions in the future. These predictions mold the

foundation for planning.

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Planners must set goals which are reports of what needs to be accomplished and

when. Planners must then show other ways of proceeding for accomplishing their

goals. After estimating the different options, planners must then make judgments about

the best way of proceeding to meet those goals. They must then develop needful

advancements and secure efficient execution of designs. Lastly, planners must

continuously estimate the favorable termination of their strategies and takes accurate

procedures when needed (1.3. Planning, Organizing & Controlling, 2008).

There are many various types of strategies and designing; strategic, tactical, and

operational planning. For example, a person who manages a new restaurant will need

to have a strategy for marketing, hiring and sales. Ray Kroc’s dream was to have a

restaurant in every town and city that sold hamburgers. His business bloomed through

careful strategies after he met the McDonalds brothers while they were in their own

hamburger restaurant. Kroc’s mind was racing with all the possibilities in copying the

brother’s very successful business. Ray wanted to go way beyond opening two or three

restaurants. He envisioned opening up places all over the U.S., we are talking about

hundreds of restaurants. Today, not only did Ray’s vision come true but McDonald’s

restaurants have done a lot better because now they are all over the world now (Kroc,

Ray 2009).
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Organizing is the duties of management that includes designing a structure of

organization and organizing humans and resources to secure the proficiency of goals.

Having the knowledge of how many workers are needed for certain shifts can be crucial

to the success of the business. If those workers do not have the proper or vital assets

to get their jobs done, organization has not happened. If the workplace is unorganized,

workers will look at the manager as not being prepared and may not have regard for

that manager’s authorities.

The Microsoft Corporation is worth over forty billion dollars. How Bill Gates did this is

astonishing. Bill Gates gathered together thousands of not only talented but smart

employees. At this point in time, the designing of electronics at Microsoft is separated

into three business sections, around twenty-five production lines, over four hundred and

fifty production teams and a very large numbers of individuals of characteristic units.

The sections are a gallery of services, products, business, entertainment, and gadgets.

The production lines within the sections are orderly and functional around connected

and often combined product used together, such as Office Systems and Visual Studio.

Every production line holds about twenty solitary production groups. The production

groups regularly share assets, control, setups, tracing work items and the coordination

of projects which also contains value proposals, mark of progress scheduling, release

management and supported engineering. Furthermore, putting together services, the

product groups have wide independence to make their own work, procedure, and

people conclusions.
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A regular product group has a product group manager (PUM) and three engineering
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instruction managers: a group program manager (GPM), a development and test

manager’s other experiences, such as user content publishing (such as online help),

and operations might speak to the product group or be used by the line or unit.

(Brechner, Eric, 2007).

Leading includes the social and casual sources of affects that you use to encourage

actions taken by others. If managers lead in an effective way, their people will be

passionate about laboring work to reach company goals. The acts of managing and

leading are not the same. A manager manages workers; this individual makes sure that

all jobs are done on time and procedures are followed. Workers will regularly follow

managers because he/she is the one in charge of the workers. Workers see the one in

charge as someone that moves them and gives them guidance to help meet the

company’s goals. In a real situation, the person in charge also serves as the chief. To

be an efficient manager and efficiently lead, this individual needs to find out what moves

their workers and move them to gain the business goals.

Apple Corporation’s CEO, Steve Jobs was fired by the business he built from the

ground up due to discrepancies with administrative personnel on how to run the

company. Apple suffered from billions of dollars in losses after they lost Steve Jobs.

Then they wanted him back and he introduced the business with his new work ethics

and all his employees went along with him and his goals. Under his management, he

turned Apple around to making money and showed such inventions as the I-Phone, I-

Pad, and the very popular I-Pod.

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Control and management are not leadership; leadership is exactly that, leadership.

If you are looking to lead, initiate at least seventy percent of your time; your own

intentions, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Put at least 15% conducting those

with power over you and 15% leading your equals (Dee, Hock, Founder & CEO,

Emeritus, Visa).

Controlling includes insuring that accomplishment does not depart from the normal

standards. There are three steps to controlling; they consist of (1) setting performance

models, (2) contrasting real performance against models, and (3) taking action to fix the

new or any other problems when needed. Standards for performance are often

reported in financial conditions such as revenue, cost, or profits but may also be

reported in other conditions, such as yielded units, number of damaged products, or

points of excellence or consumer service.

This function also includes watching the company’s performance to make sure

objectives are being met. Managers need to watch out for the costs against

accomplishments of the company. Say a company’s goal of increasing sales by five

percent over the next three or four months, the manager may look at the movement

toward the objectives at the end of the three or four months. If the manager is

productive, he/she will share this information with their workers. For the workers, this

builds character, trust, and a feeling of being included.

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Wal-Mart uses this type of management and takes full benefits. Wal-Mart uses rules

to oversee the company’s costs. The founding owner believes if you control your cost

better than your rivals, you will succeed and this is where you can always find the edge

of the competition. For the past twenty-five years they have ranked number one in their

business for the lowest estimates of expenses to sales and this was long before that

honor was known about Wal-Mart. If you run an effective operation and make mistakes

but you can recover because you have an effective business (Sam Walton: 10 Rules for

Building a Successful Business, Power Home Biz.com).

When you are a manager it includes many various jobs. Four of the main duties that

must be conceived in any management situation and they are planning, organizing,

leading and controlling. Management is a balance with many various parts and a good

manager will be able to keep the balance and keep workers moving.

All of these businesses like Apple, McDonalds, Microsoft, and Wal-Mart stick to the

work ethic of being disposed to rivalry, excellence, and significance. These businesses

are output – positioned and they require the very best work from its employees. Though

originally, employees loathed rigid conditions, they command what was anticipated from

them. Any company who has new employees must have orientation for them. When

performing the job interview this stipulates the organizations policies. When new

employees sign the contract this holds the key to the authority and regulations are

comprehendible to them.
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If you look at the successful accomplishments of some companies like Apple,

Microsoft, Wal-Mart and McDonalds can give us an understanding on the attributes of

rules that these organizations put into place. These organizations are worth billions of

dollars, each and every one of them. When you have and use quality control it means

your products have the best quality and services.