Management functions

Management functions are the basic elements that will always be there and clung to the management process that will be a reference by the managers in carrying out activities to achieve goals. Management function was first introduced by a French industrialist named Henry Fayol in the early 20th century. At that time, he mentioned the five functions of management, namely designing, organizing, commanding, mengordinasi, and control. But this time, the five functions have been summarized into four, namely:

1. Planning (planning) is to figure out what to do with the resources they own. Planning carried out to determine the overall corporate objectives and how best to meet that goal. Managers evaluate various alternative plans before taking action and then see whether the chosen plan fits and can be used to meet company objectives. Planning is the most important process of all management functions because without planning, other functions can not walk.
2. Organizing (organizing) is done with the aim of dividing a large activities into the activities of smaller ones. Managers in the organization make it easier to supervise and determine who needed to carry out tasks that have divided them. Organizing can be done by determining what tasks to do, who to do it, how these tasks are grouped, who is responsible for these tasks, at which level decisions should be taken.
3. Directing (directing) is an action for ensuring that all members of the group trying to achieve objectives consistent with the managerial planning and organizational efforts. So actuating means is moving the people to want to work with full awareness of its own or jointly to achieve the desired objectives effectively. In this case what is needed is leadership (leadership).
4. Evaluating (Evaluating) is the process of supervision and control of the company's performance to ensure that the running of the company in accordance with a predetermined plan. A manager is required to find the problems that exist in the company's operations, and then solve it before the problem becomes larger.
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