Managing People and Organization

Running head: MANAGEMENT
Managing People and Organization Subject
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

1MANAGEMENT
Introduction:
The essay focuses at an incident from life where I have used the four management
function of planning, organizing, leadership and controlling in guiding my friends in a science
project where each student is supposed to participate in some activity or other. I was also asked
by my teacher to ensure that the project is a success. However, when I look back there are
certain changes I would like to make provided I was given the opportunity of managing the same
thing. The report also put forward an account of this.
Discussion:
Planning represents the management function that involved setting of the objectives and
determination of the course of the actions for the achievement of the objectives (Coombs 2014).
Planning requires manager in remaining aware of the environmental conditions facing the
organization and forecasting the future conditions. It requires the managers to be the good
decision makers.
As a part of the planning, I tried to establish objectives along with deciding on the
alternative sources of action in case no adversity can ruin the project. After evaluation of various
alternatives, I decided on the best course of the action for the achievement of objectives. During
the project, I tried to constantly evaluate the plan and undertake corrective action for the
effective plan implementation.
Organizing focuses on the management function that involved development on the
organizational structure and allocation of the human resource for the accomplishment of the
objectives (Burke 2011). The structure of organization represents the framework for coordination
of the effort.