Question: Explain briefly any three functions of management.
Answer:
a). Planning: Planning refers to thinking beforehand. Under this, it is decided—what is to be done, how it is to be done when it is to be done and by whom it is to be done.
b). Organising: Organising refers to the harmonious adjustment of various elements to achieve common objectives. It involves determining activities needed to achieve the objectives, grouping these activities into departments, assigning such groups of activities to managers and defining the interrelationship among various posts so that ambiguity in the performance of duties can be eliminated.
c). Staffing: Staffing refers to filling and keeping filled the posts with people. It ensures that competent persons are appointed. The chief activities undertaken in it are recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, etc.
