There is a wide range of essential functions that must be performed by managers in large-scale organisations. These functions may be categorized into two broad types - generic functions and specific functions
- Planning - managers must perform the task of planning at their designated level
- Strategic Level,
- Tactical Level or
- Operational level everything that the organisation must do to achieve its objectives, i.e. the long-term, the mid-term and the short-term plans
- Organising - managers must ensure that all of the necessary resources, i.e.
- Natural resources
- Human resources,
- Capital resources and
- Entrepreneurial or 'street smart' resources are available and are able to be used to perform the required tasks or for the required purposes so that the service can be provided or the product manufactured
- Leading - managers must lead the way for employees, customers and competitors; they must be at the forefront of trends and fashions and lead by example in the workplace through their technical skill and competencies
- Controlling - managers must perform a supervisory and control function to ensure that work is performed to the optimal level and that the quality of service provision of product manufacture is at world's best practice level
- Communicating - managers must keep everyone in the organisation informed of what is occurring within the organisation as well as members of the wider community
- Creating - managers must be able to create innovative ways to perform tasks and to market the organisation's products or services in order to enhance the organisation's effectiveness and efficiency
- Motivating managers must be able to motivate staff to maintain them in the first instance and then to ensure that their performance is optimised both for their own benefit and also for the benefit of the organisation
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